Sunshine Coast lawyers raise $45k for vulnerable communities needing legal support

At Travis Schultz & Partners’ fifth annual fundraising dinner, lawyers from the Sunshine Coast successfully...

27 March 2025

By Grace Robbie

Victorian community legal centres get record $19m boost

A record investment of $19 million has been granted to 16 Victorian community legal

20 March 2025

By Naomi Neilson

CLC, WA hospital team up to tackle FDV

In light of the escalating issue of family and domestic violence, a not-for-profit community legal centre and a...

29 May 2024

By Grace Robbie

‘A serious setback’: WRC calls for additional funding for community legal centres

Following the 2024–25 budget, a community legal centre said it will have to reduce services for First Nations people,...

23 May 2024

By Lauren Croft

Budget 2024: The key takeaways lawyers need to know

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has handed down the third federal budget for the Albanese Labor government for 2024–25....

14 May 2024

By Naomi Neilson

$125m needed to keep DV, FV services open, say CLCs

With the rise in the number of people reaching out to community legal centres to seek assistance with domestic and...

02 May 2024

By Grace Robbie

‘LGBTIQ+ specialist community legal services are at breaking point’

Legal organisations have urged the government to boost funding for community legal centres, which are currently...

02 April 2024

By Grace Robbie

‘Private firms are crucial for enabling community legal sector to use legal tech’

The founding chief executive of a community legal service discusses the negative implications that can come from the...

31 May 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Redfern Legal Centre names new CEO

Sydney-based Redfern Legal Centre has appointed a new chief executive...

23 November 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Toongabbie Legal Centre to host 15th annual community fundraising dinner

A community legal centre in Sydney’s west is appealing to the community to help it continue providing its free legal...

18 November 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

DLA Piper partners with community legal centre to aid refugees

DLA Piper has partnered with a community legal centre specialising in refugee and immigration law, policy and...

01 September 2022

By Lauren Croft

A-G: ‘Only a fraction’ of funding for women’s legal services was delivered last year

Lawyers will be “staggered to realise”, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC MP said last weekend, that funding by the...

11 August 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Family law firm aids Sunny Street clinic

Family lawyer Leisa Toomey has given a generous donation to Sunny Street to mark the two-year anniversary of her...

23 June 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Lawyers ‘have a duty’ to better support CLCs

Eidan Havas recently made a sizeable donation to the Toongabbie Legal Centre – and is now encouraging other lawyers...

20 June 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Queensland firm raises over $30k for legal service

A wine dinner hosted by Queensland compensation firm Travis Schultz & Partners has raised a record amount of money...

18 March 2022

By Lauren Croft

Victorian community legal centres complete merger

The combined membership of two community legal centres based in Melbourne has voted in favour of merging the...

01 December 2021

By Naomi Neilson

Community legal sector to receive $83m investment

The NSW Premier has injected a record investment into the community legal sector, which he said will bridge gaps in the...

09 November 2021

By Lauren Croft