For the public good : pro bono and the legal profession in Australia / edited by Christopher Arup and Kathy Laster.

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Publication details:
Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press, 2001.
Record id:
22199
Series:
Law in context (Federation Press) ; v. 19.
Subject:
Legal aid -- Australia.
Lawyers -- Australia.
Contents:
Why lawyers should do pro bono work
Comment: lawyers as social entrepreneurs / Michael Liffman
Comment: pro bono lawyering in the 21st century / Fiona McLeay
Professions and the public good / John S Western, Toni Makkai and Kristin Natalier
Comment: pro bono and the young profession: a view from England and Wales / Lisa Webley
Comment: doing good - a practitioner's perspective / John Emerson
Comment: the darker side of the profession? / Rob McQueen
Law clinics and the promotion of public interest lawyering / Irene Styles and Archie Zariski
Comment: efficacy beyond reasonable doubt? / Adrian Evans; Comment: law school clinics plus / Les McCrimmon
Pro bono as a professional legacy / Donald Robertson
Comment: the activist origins of Australian community legal centres / Mary Anne Noone
Comment: early Australian statutory legal aid schemes and the legal profession / John Lynch
How and why is pro bono flourishing: recent developments in Sweden and China / Francis Regan
Comment: the new pro bono: in whose interest? / Andrea Durbach
Barriers to pro bono: commercial conflicts of interest reconsidered / Elisabeth Wentworth
Comment: governmental responses to commercial conflicts of interest / Paul Sofronoff
Comment: commercial firms and commercial conflicts of interest / Bruce Moore
Pro bono in the post-professional spectrum of legal services / Christopher Arup
Introduction to Report of the National Pro Bono Task Force and Recommended Action Plan / David Weisbrot
Appendix: National Pro Bono Taskforce: recommended action plan for national coordination and development of pro bono legal services.
Phys. description:
246 p.