Target Report Shows Pro Bono Increase

2 October 2009

The Second Performance Report on the National Pro Bono Aspirational Target (“Target") released today shows an average of 41.9 hours of pro bono work was done in the last financial year by lawyers who have signed up to the Target up from 39.8 hours per lawyer, reported last year.

The seven law firm signatories with more than 100 lawyers who met the Target averaged 45.2 hours per lawyer per annum and jointly provided almost 180,000 hours of pro bono work last year .

The numbers of signatories has risen considerably. The Target now covers approximately 5,700 lawyers across Australia, up from 2,900 last year. 

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