News & Views

While most of our member firms have a pro bono practice, the need to provide opportunities for lawyers to practice pro bono work was underlined at the launch of a new support guide on 3 August this year.

Brian Salter, Group General Counsel at AMP launched the report and noted that pro bono practice in private profession was ubiquitous and that lawyers in these firms express strong desires to participate in such work. The release of the new guide provides opportunities for lawyers and firms to increase participation and to integrate pro bono with other community activities in the firm. A copy of the guide can be found HERE.

We all hate packaging. No matter what you buy, the product is always surrounded by much more cardboard and polystyrene than is probably needed. While most tech companies are trying to address cradle to grave solutions, including packaging, Apple seems to have taken one step further with an innovative solution that seems to be flying under the radar. They have just announced the latest expansion to their Sustainable Forestry Strategy, with 320,000 acres of working forest in China, enough to offset the footprint of all their packaging. This is part of their five year partnership with WWF to transition up to one million acres in provinces of southern China. More about this in a great article from Greenbiz can be found HERE.

Global firm Linklaters has achieved a carbon neutral status for 2016/17 after having invested in a Cookstove project in Ghana. Apart from the obvious carbon offsets from this project, other benefits address four of the UN's Sustainabile Development Goals. 

Click on their infographic to go to their description of the project.

In June this year, our member firm, Sparke Helmore released 'In Kind', their social and environmental sustainability report.

While they continue to include data in our annual AusLSA report, providing an additional stand alone report allows them to include more information about the fantastic community projects that they have been involved with, as well as provide an update on the firm's pro bono activities.

Click here to see a pdf copy of the report. Click on the logo above to see their press release.