Save the date for our AGM, new resources for pro bono lawyers, and farewell to a legend of the community sector
We’re happy to share some updates from LawRight’s work in the past few months.
As we hurtle toward the end of the year, please save the date for the LawRight AGM, which will be held at 5.30pm, Monday 17 November. We hope you can join us as we celebrate a year of collaborative work, with so many positive outcomes for clients and the legal system.
If you or your firm is a LawRight member, we have just sent membership renewal emails. Please keep an eye out and renew your membership ahead of the AGM – and don’t hesitate to contact us if we can help.
Karen Dyhrberg, CEO
Announcing Everyday Law in Queensland
LawRight is proud to share our innovative, tailored legal resource, Everyday Law in Queensland.
This unique Queensland resource has been collaboratively designed and developed by the specialist team from LawRight’s Homelessness Law, following extensive consultation and support from Queensland’s pro bono and community legal sector. Everyday Law in Queensland provides practical guidance, client-centred examples, specialist legal information, and relevant case studies summaries, so that Queensland lawyers can resolve more everyday legal issues connected to housing insecurity, financial hardship and experiences of violence.
LawRight expresses our gratitude to Queensland Gives for their visionary, generous support of this project, and acknowledges TBD Design and CloudThree for their website development work with us.
Farewell to Rob Reed
Rob Reed recently finished up his many years as pro bono coordinator at MinterEllison. Rob was also on LawRight (then QPILCH)’s founding management committee and served as our President for several years.
To acknowledge his contribution, we gathered to watch The Sacred Run, the Lotus and the Feather, a film featuring a young Rob determined to run 29km on his 29th birthday on the Sacred Run in Japan. Rob has become a legend of the pro bono and community legal sector who has led the way – in his work for the community and on the footpath.
We thank McCullough Robertson, MinterEllison, MurphySchmidt Solicitors and Barry Nilsson, who joined forces to make the event possible.
Building LawRight’s cultural capability
In early September, LawRight staff were honoured to be joined by Uncle Charlie Waters for a day of learning about cultural frameworks and structural racism, as well as begin development of an artwork that reflects our organisational values. Uncle Charlie has done important work closing the gap by helping organisations to improve their cultural capability, and we look forward to continuing this journey with him.
Supporting risk management in the sector
Our many loyal volunteers will be familiar with the Risk Management Guide, a vital tool in promoting consistent best practice across the community legal sector.
A new updated edition of the Guide was recently released and LawRight contributed to this long-term sector-wide work through the contribution of Ben Tuckett, Director of our Court and Tribunal Services.
The recent changes are intended to better communicate expectations and guidelines, as well as encompass more scenarios that arise in everyday practice.
LawRight has offices in Meanjin and Gimuy. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands and waters throughout Australia and offer our respect to Elders past and present.
We recognise the resilience of First Nations peoples despite historical and ongoing injustices, benefit from their knowledge and generosity, and support their right to self-determination.
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