Justice Connect

Justice Connect

About

Justice Connect is an independent, not-for-profit organisation with offices in Melbourne and Sydney. It is committed to delivering access to justice by providing pro bono legal services to people experiencing disadvantage and the community organisations that support them. It does so by matching organisations and individuals who are ineligible for legal aid and cannot afford a lawyer to lawyers and barristers willing to act on a pro bono basis.

What kind of work?

Justice Connect coordinates a number of programs: - Pro bono Referral Service (Melbourne & Sydney): Pro bono legal referrals to their member lawyers and the management of the pro bono programs of the Law Institute of Victoria (LIVLAS) and the Victorian Bar. - Homeless Law (Melbourne): Their specialist outreach service for clients experiencing or at risk of homelessness. - Seniors Law (Melbourne): Their specialist outreach service for older clients with a legal issue associated with ageing, including clients experiencing or at risk of elder abuse. - Not-for-profit Law (Melbourne & Sydney): Their specialist legal service for not-for-profit organisations. - MOSAIC (Melbourne & Sydney): Migrant Outreach Services – Advice, Information and Community Education: Their specialist outreach service for recently arrived migrants, asylum seekers and refugees.

Location

Sydney and Melbourne

Student Opportunities

Justice Connect accepts those who are willing to enagage in the organisation's volunteering program. Volunteers are involved in seminars and training programs, and are encouraged to play an active role in fundraising and social events.

More info can be found here: https://justiceconnect.org.au/work-with-us/volunteer/

Graduate Opportunities

Justice Connect offers a comprehensive Practical Legal Training (PLT) placement program, where applications can be involved in Not-for-profit Law, Homeless Law, Seniors Law, Self Representation Service and Public Interest Law teams.

More info on PLT can be found here: https:// justiceconnect.org.au/work-with-us/practical-legaltraining/

Other career opportunities are offered by Justice Action. You can find them on their Careers page, which can be found here: https://justiceconnect.org.au/work-with-us/careers/

Fun Fact / Recent Project

Gateway Project In an Australian first, Justice Connect launched a world-leading suite of digital legal products to better connect people and community groups with free legal help. These products make up the innovative Gateway Project.

Every year, 8.5 million Australians have a legal problem, but less than half access legal help. Justice Connect helps to close this justice gap through the Gateway Project, enabling people to apply for legal help online, automating eligibility screening, and matching people with an appropriate legal service or pro bono lawyer.

With seed funding from Google.org in 2017, Justice Connect started an ambitious project to design an end-to-end solution that allows people to apply for legal help online, automates eligibility screening, and finally matches people with an appropriate Justice Connect legal service or pro bono lawyer in Justice Connect’s network of 10,000 pro bono lawyers.

Justice Connect CEO, Chris Povey, said “Justice Connect is leading the way in using technology to close the justice gap, not just in Australia, but