Global Pro Bono Portal
An award winning pro bono platform developed by the charity Justice Connect.
Tried and tested in Australia - now going global in partnership with justice champions around the world.
Impact so far in Australia
50% increase
50% increase in pro bono referrals over 12 months
800+ firms, 2,500 pro bono lawyers
60 NFP organisations posting opportunities to 800+ firms on the Portal
6,000+ opportunities
Over 6,000 pro bono opportunities in 10 countries
Crisis response
Critical role in legal response to bushfire, flood and COVID-19 crises
An ambitious global social justice project
In 2019 Justice Connect launched our in-house developed Pro Bono Portal to connect lawyers more efficiently, transparently and effectively with unmet legal need using innovative technology. In keeping with our human-centred design approach, to ensure the Portal meets the needs of its users, stakeholders were involved at every step of the design and development process.
Find out more about the Pro Bono Portal
After its success in Australia, we are working to share our technology and adapt the Portal to meet various place-based requirements in jurisdictions around the world. The Portal’s adaptability means that it is configurable to suit different legal systems, and can be installed and run independently by local legal service organisations. With the support of our generous partners, Justice Connect is able to provide access to this technology at no/low cost to users around the world.
The Portal has been successfully launched with partners in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
Pro Bono Portal features
Awards
Global Partners
What current users are saying about our portal
We strongly support this thoughtful, design-led approach to harnessing technology so that we can better match unmet legal need with pro bono resources.
It has been really good to see what else is available at Justice Connect on the Opportunity Board. This is helpful for when there is a group at the firm that wants to do more work – I can proactively look.
This is changing how we work in a good way – we’re rethinking our practice.
It was the best IT roll-out I’ve ever been part of.
About Justice Connect
Justice Connect is an Australian charity that has been operating for 28 years. In the face of huge unmet legal need, we design and deliver high-impact interventions to increase access to legal support and achieve social justice. We help those who would otherwise miss out on assistance, focusing on people disproportionately impacted by the law and the organisations that make our community thrive.
We’ve been running legal programs for decades, and our work is now supported by leading technology that we develop in-house. Working with pro bono is in our DNA and our services leverage a network of over 10,000 Australian pro bono lawyers.
