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2019 Justice Project opens with 22 law grads
The Piddington Society has launched its annual Justice Project, with this year seeing 22 law graduates.
Emma Musgrave
The Piddington Society Justice Project (PJP) is designed to give graduates who haven not yet found employment a pathway to admission by providing a practical legal training (PLT) platform for them to complete their hours in a community legal centre (CLC).
Chair of The Piddington Society, the Honourable John Chaney SC said the Project is mutually beneficial to both law grads and CLCs, noting that it has contributed in excess of 10,000 hours of legal advice, admission of over 40 new lawyers and more than $400,000 of funding for CLCs.
“As the Project grows Piddington is able to support more law graduates to complete their PLT and CLCs to better serve the community,” he said.
“The demands on CLCs are becoming greater and law graduates continue to find it hard to find employment, especially jobs which lead to admission. This Project helps solve that problem.
“Without quality legal advice many in our community can see simple disputes become more complex and even end up in courts. The Project helps remedy this.”
Fremantle Community Legal Centre principal solicitor Judy McLean echoed a similar sentiment.
“CLCs are in overwhelmingly high demand yet with underwhelming resources. The placement of a PJP graduate in a CLC provides a level of legal support to the lawyers which is generally an extravagance beyond the scope of the CLCs budget,” she said.
“Further, the PJP graduate is supported outside of the service and this provides the graduate with a degree of confidence not usually apparent in new graduates. The effect is a more productive output with less emphasis on basic skill training and more concentration on substantive legal procedures.
“This a perfect match where the graduate receives practical access to quintessential legal issues while engaging with our most vulnerable members of the broader community and the CLC lawyers have access to additional legal support which enhances the provision of services.”
Emma Musgrave
Emma Musgrave (née Ryan) is the managing editor, professional services at Momentum Media.
Emma has worked for Momentum Media since 2015, including five years spent as the editor of the company's legal brand - Lawyers Weekly. Throughout her time at Momentum, she has been responsible for breaking some of the biggest stories in corporate Australia. In addition, she has produced exclusive multimedia and event content related to the company's respective brands and audiences.
Prior to joining Momentum Media, Emma worked in breakfast radio, delivering news to the Central West region of NSW, before taking on a radio journalist role at Southern Cross Austereo, based in Townsville, North Queensland.
She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) degree from Charles Sturt University.
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