Recruiting and Retaining Lawyers

Urbis , 2007 Profile of the Solicitors of NSW, Law Society of New South Wales, December 2007.

Rice Simon , ‘Rural access to private lawyers’ (Working Paper, Australian National University, 2008.) Rice analysed data collected by the Law Society of NSW and mapped the movement and gender distribution of private sector lawyers in rural NSW over the past two decades.

Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Legal Aid and Access to Justice, June 2004, 133.

Urbis , above n 1, 13, 19.

Ibid 27.

Ibid 25. ‘Government’ includes lawyers working in ‘community legal centres’ and Indigenous legal services.

Ibid 13.

Rice , above n 2.

Ibid.

Urbis , above n 1, 5.

Ibid.

Ibid 19.

Ibid 25.

Legal Aid Commission of NSW, Review of the NSW Community Legal Centres Funding Program Final Report, (2006) 33.

Brown Melinda , A Country Practice’ (2000) 74(9) Law Institute Journal 18.

Cull Kim , Law Society of New South Wales, ‘Young rural solicitors in decline: New blood needed in bush’, (Press Release, 8 February 2002).

Urbis , above n 1, 14.

Marks Robert Martin Paul Verbeek Miriam , National Competition Policy: A discussion paper, Law Society of NSW (2002) 39.

Ibid.

Law Council of Australia, Erosion of Legal Representation in the Australian Justice System, (2004) 6.

Schofield Deborah , ‘Decision criteria in health professionals choosing a rural practice setting: Development of Careers in Rural health Tracking Survey’, Rural and Remote Health 7:666 (Online), July 2007; Hacket Jeanette , ‘Outreach should be rewarded’, The Australian (Sydney), Higher Education, 13 February 2008.

See, eg, Courtney Mary , (2002) ‘The impact of a rural clinical placement on student nurses' employment intentions’, The Collegian, 9(1), 12–18.

Miles Robert , Attraction and Retention of Professionals to Regional Areas, Queensland Department of State Development and Innovation, 2004, 12; Brown , above at n 15; Castles Rachel , ‘Recruitment and retention of young lawyers in remote, rural and regional Queensland’ (2003) 23(3) Proctor 32.

Giddings Jeff Hook Barbara Nielson Jennifer , ‘Legal Services in Rural Communities: Issues for clients and lawyers’, (2001) 26(2) Alternative Law Journal 57, 60.

Ibid; Brown , above at n 15, 20.

Borchardt Rachel , ‘The recruiting roundabout’, (2006) Spring Australian Law Management Journal, 10–12; Bendable or expendable? Practices and attitudes towards flexibility in Victoria's biggest legal employers (2006) Law Institute of Victoria/ Victorian Women Lawyers, 2.

Young Justice PW , ‘Lawyers in country areas’ (2002) 76 Alternative Law Journal 84.

Marks , above n 18.

Dewar John Giddings Jeff Parker Stephen , The Impact of Changes in Legal Aid on Criminal and Family Law Practice in Queensland, Executive Summary, 1998, 2–3.

Brown , above n 15, 21; Law Council of Australia, above n 20, 6.

Law Council of Australia, above n 20, 6. This report refers to a 2002 survey of family law practitioners by National Legal Aid which found a higher rate of withdrawal from legal aid work in rural areas (40%) compared to urban areas (21%).

Marks , above n 18, 13.

Legal Aid Commission, above n 14.

The Review identified the real risk of unconscious exploitation of CLC staff because many are willing to work ‘long hours in poor conditions for low pay in order to achieve the social justice goals to which they are committed…’ as well as the problem of high rates of burnout as a consequence of high workloads and distressed clients.

CLC Review Steering Committee, Joint Review of WA Community Legal Centres, September 2003, 57, <legalaid.wa.gov.au/Page/LAServices/pdf/Joint%20Review%20of%20CLCs.pdf> at 19 February 2009.

Legal Aid Commission, above n 14, 33.

Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Remuneration Recommendations National Association of Community Legal Centres, Sydney, 2006.

Knight Ian , ‘Rich Rewards in Public Sector Law’, (2006) Spring Australian Law Management Journal, 16.

Guthrie Fiona Watters Shirley , Evaluation of the Regional Solicitor Program, Legal Aid Queensland, (2005) 11–12.

For example, see submissions from the Northern Territory Government site <nt.gov.au/business/brt.cfm?brtid=168> at 13 May 2008; See also Senator Honourable Ian McDonald, Access to Justice and Pro Bono’, (Speech to the National Access to Justice and Pro bon Conference, Queensland, 12 August 2006 <senatormacdeonald.org/speeches9.html> at 28 May 2008).

Ibid.

McDonald , above n 39.

HECS Reimbursement Scheme, Department of Health and Ageing <health.gov.au/hecs> at 19 February 2009.

See Universities Admission Centre NSW and ACT <uac.edu.au/uac/costs.html#csp> at 23 February 2009.

Evidence to Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Parliament of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2003, 40 (Julie Bishop) <aph.gov.au//hansard/senate/commttee/s7092.pdf>.

Australian Law Students' Association, Submission to Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy, April 1998.

Australian Law Students' Association (ALSA), ‘Law Students Call for Scholarship Overhaul’, 28 April 2008.

Australian Law Students' Association, above n 46.

McGowan Helen , Lawyers Go Bush, Regional Summer Clerkship Project 2005–2006, Victoria Law Foundation; National Association of Community Legal Centres, Project Proposal, Law Graduates for CLCs in Regional Areas, March 2008–March 2012, Year One: Feasibility Study, Sydney, March 2008.