Podcast: Seeing law as a service to the community

With National Pro Bono Day having come and gone, Lawyers Weekly spoke with a prominent pro bono lawyer and human rights advocate about how law is, at its core, an altruistic profession in that it operates to serve the community around it.

Jerome Doraisamy • 18 May 2018 • Podcast

On this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Hall & Wilcox special counsel and director of pro bono and community, Nathan Kennedy. Nathan is also the secretary of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, an organisation he is a former president of.

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Mr Kennedy joins Jerome for a discussion of the various ways in which lawyers in practice can perform pro bono work, why such work is so important – for the community, for law firms and for the individual lawyers themselves – as well as the wellness and development benefits that come from immersing one’s self in pro bono practice.

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Jerome Doraisamy

Jerome Doraisamy is the managing editor of Lawyers Weekly and HR Leader. He is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in New South Wales, and a board director of the Minds Count Foundation.

You can email Jerome at: jerome.doraisamy@momentummedia.com.au

Jota Tuesday, 22 May 2018

Pro bono is lame attempt to sugar coat the image of a lawyer as a sharing caring human being fighting for truth justice and the American way. Nothing can be further from the truth. All the lawyers acting for big business, corporate lawyers and government lawyers clearly prove that the lawyers act in the interests of their institutional masters rather than the best interests of the community and the royal commission into banking is further proof of this.

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