Pro bono a career-long commitment

Lawyers are obliged to continue providing - and increase the amount of - pro bono legal work in order to provide access to justice for all members of the community, the president of the…

Lawyers Weekly • 16 May 2011 • NewLaw

Lawyers are obliged to continue providing - and increase the amount of - pro bono legal work in order to provide access to justice for all members of the community, the president of the Australia's largest Law Society said today.

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As Law Week kicked off in capital cities around Australia, NSW Law Society president Stuart Westgarth also said existing pro bono work is making a difference to marginalised members of the community.

"Pro bono work is an important service that the legal profession can provide to the community," Westgarth said.

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According to the most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics survey of pro bono work, Australian lawyers undertook 955,400 hours of pro bono work in 2007/08 at an estimated value of $238.2 million.

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