The Community Connect program brings the Firm’s values to life and strengthens and enriches the Firm’s culture. It focuses on addressing disadvantage and facilitating access to justice through utilising the skills, resources and enthusiasm of their people. Some of those skills have been quite niche: they’ve climbed mountains with children with cerebral palsy, held mock job interviews in schools, written letters to kids in disadvantaged schools, and set up mobile libraries for people living on the streets.

They have 25 community partnerships nationally, and support local communities all over Australia. Their Pro Bono work act for low income and vulnerable people who cannot obtain Legal Aid, and for not-for-profit organisations which support them.

Legal requirements: Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR1)

Direct applications and sponsorship requests are not accepted; applications are made by partners and employees on behalf of the community organisations and charities with which they work. See: https://www.claytonutz.com/about/esg/social