The Free Representation Unit (FRU) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help support disabled people as they progress through social security appeals tribunals, particularly Personal Independence Payment appeals. Following austerity cuts, many of their clients no longer have access to Legal Aid. The FRU is aiming to raise £10,000 in the next month. It has […]
KIM technology will speed up triage and referral to pro bono lawyers by enabling efficient collection of client information
Gibson Dunn associate Ryan Whelan is working pro bono for Gina Martin, attempting to get upskirting made a criminal offence.
In a large international law firm you have to make yourself stand out from the crowd. Pro bono is a great way of doing just that, writes Hogan Lovells trainee Benjamin Thomas
The Law of Society of England and Wales is setting up a pro bono legal panel for victims of the London Bridge attack. The panel is similar to the one created by the Manchester Law Society, launched after the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert. The Manchester Law Society said it had received nearly 300 […]
Ashurst, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), DWF and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are among the firms to have applied to give pro bono advice after the Manchester bombing.
The Manchester Law Society has set up a legal advice rota to help victims of the attack at the Manchester Arena.
Students from the Teesside Law Clinic have been honoured at the LawWorks and Attorney General’s annual student pro bono awards.
What many younger members of the profession fail to appreciate is that volunteering is a hugely effective method of both honing existing skills and acquiring new ones.
A group of law graduates set up their own legal advice clinic and you can too! Here’s how, with effort and dedication, you can help address the massive cuts in legal aid
Lawyer 2B meets the lawyers working on the case behind the award-winning podcast Serial.
Unemployed graduates could help represent litigants in person, Master of the Rolls Sir Terence Etherton has said.
Frankie Boon won the award for junior lawyers after putting in almost 400 hours of unpaid effort on behalf of different clients.
Lawyer 2B meets the Essex University law students who are looking into potential miscarriages of justice as part of their degree.
LawWorks and the Bar Pro Bono Unit have launched a ‘Law School Challenge’ to raise funds for the two organisations.
What impact will Brexit have on the Eurasian lynx? It’s just one more thing that lawyers working pro bono for an animal charity have to consider…
