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Who is the big-firm laggard on pro-bono hours? – The Australian Financial Review
The legal profession can give itself a pat on the back for its pro bono efforts – except for one big firm.
The report doesn’t put names next to the numbers. (The table of “Pro bono Hours per Lawyer in fy2020 Firm by Firm” is a bit of a tease it simply lists, firm 1 etc.) However, the centre’s chairman, Phillip Cornwall, said there were six large firms (50-plus lawyers) “with average-per-lawyer hours in single figures”.
“We would like to see governments and corporates take the next step by pressing the chronic underachievers to show how they will redress this imbalance.”
The 49 “large” firms are spl…
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