Redfern Legal Centre

Redfern Legal Centre About

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) aims to promote social justice by providing free legal advice, legal services and education to disadvantaged people in New South Wales; in particular to residents of inner Sydney and to the groups who advocate for them. Additionally, RLC participates in activities that reduce inequalities and defects in laws, the legal system, and administrative and social practices that Graduate Opportunities impact on disadvantaged people. RLC provides Practical Legal Training (PLT) placements for What kind of work? three days per week. Areas of practice: - Employment PLT students are involved in client intake, file review, general - Money problems and consumer complaints administration, research, legal drafting, interviewing - Financial abuse clients, and follow up on client matters. - Discrimination and human rights - International students Applicants must have a demonstrated commitment to - Police complaints social justice, understanding of ethical practice issues - Government complaints affecting community legal centres, and experience in - Tenancy (RLC run the Inner Sydney Tenants’ Advice and customer service or administration. Advocacy Service) Type of work done by employees: https://rlc.org.au/jobs-volunteers - Legal advice become an administrative assistant to a solicitor, or a volunteer tenancy advisor. graduates. Graduates must be able to commit to two to You can find more information here: - Legal referrals Fun Fact / Recent Project - Community legal education Financial Abuse Legal Service - Law reform and policy work In late 2019, RLC launced the Financial Abuse Legal Service. The service provides free, confidential legal Location information and advice to people across NSW who have Sydney money problems due to domestic abuse in an intimate partner relationship.

Student Opportunities

Students can volunteer at RLC as a Legal Assistant. The service can help with: Students must commit half a day per week for 12 months, - Owing money that you cannot pay back and must have completed at least two years of an - Coercion to sign documents, take out loans or make false undergraduate law degree or have been accepted into a declarations graduate law degree. - Identity theft to secure credit - Joint debts/guarantees Legal Assistants are involved in legal invormation and - Credit cards, personal loans and mortgages referral, client intake and interviewing and administrative - Utility bills, such as electricity, gas, phone and internet duties. - Insurance claims Legal Assistants may also be given the opportunity to - Bankruptcy - Credit reporting