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Chapter Twelve - The Tripartite Effect of Pro Bono: The Australian Experience

from Part Three - OCEANIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2022

By
Fiona McLeay  and
Lucy Adams
Edited by
Scott L. Cummings ,
Fabio de Sa e Silva  and
Louise G. Trubek
Scott L. Cummings
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Fabio de Sa e Silva
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma, Norman
Louise G. Trubek
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Summary

Over the last thirty years, government funding for legal services in Australia has declined and legal need has increased. At the same time, pro bono legal work by private lawyers has increased and now plays a small but important role in the delivery of free legal help for people and communities experiencing disadvantage in Australia. Various models have developed to enable lawyers in the private profession to do this work. Some firms employ lawyers solely to undertake free work or establish in-house pro bono teams to coordinate pro bono work. Others work via pro bono “clearinghouses,” which employ their own multidisciplinary teams and match pro bono lawyers with clients. These clients may be nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that work with people and communities experiencing disadvantage, or they may be the people directly. Some firms use a blend of these approaches to pro bono.

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Global Pro Bono
Causes, Context, and Contestation
 , pp. 477 - 532
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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