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Pro Bono opportunities through the Western Sydney University Justice Clinic

The WSU Justice Clinic is the University's community legal service and School of Law's experiential learning program, where practicing lawyers work on client cases and law reform and access to justice projects, run health justice outreach, provide community legal education, operate the university's Student Legal Service, and teach the university's clinical legal placement and internship subjects.

We are always interested in pro bono partnering with community members, organisations, and firms in the work of the Justice Clinic, whether through secondments to the Justice Clinic, referral of individual client matters for pro bono assistance, establishing referral pathways to and from the Justice Clinic, or collaborating on research and law reform work. 

If you are interested in participating in this pro bono scheme, please contact Rebecca Dominguez, Director / Principal Solicitor, at r.dominguez@westernsydney.edu.au

Community engagement

Our School of Law is deeply embedded in our local and global communities, committed to serving those same communities and to building and sustaining partnerships that are mutual, reciprocal and impactful.  From our Indigenous Strategy, teaching and learning initiatives, engagement strategy, and research vision, we incorporate and welcome opportunities to work with and for community. 

The WSU Justice Clinic is at the centre of the School of Law's engagement strategy and community engagement activities.  For further information or discussion, please contact Rebecca Dominguez, Director / Principal Solicitor, at r.dominguez@westernsydney.edu.au.

Research engagement

Our research strategy in the School of Law concentrates on influential and applied research in the field of social justice at home and in our region.  We are aware of and responsive to the many unmet community and student needs and aspirations; our community's many Indo-Pacific, Middle Eastern and global links; the equally diverse backgrounds and expertise of our staff; a Justice Clinic servicing the community and both domestic and international students, in its research and legal work; and particular research expertise in Indo-Pacific cross-jurisdictional and comparative law. 

We are ranked in the top 3% of universities worldwide in research, and care deeply about our research making a difference.  We harness the academic and professional capacity of our staff to achieve these results and impact.  

For further information about Research within the School of Law, please visit here or contact Professor Michael Head, Associate Dean (Research) at m.head@westernsydney.edu.au.

 

Internship program for law students

Our legal internship program offers law students close to graduating the opportunity to work in an unpaid placement for 12 days over the semester with a host organisation.  Students enrol in the legal internship subject through the WSU Justice Clinic, and complete modules, seminars and assessments for academic credit toward their law degree while also gaining work experience and Practical Legal Training (PLT) credit, where eligible.

There are many benefits to you taking on a WSU law student intern.  Enthusiastic and talented students provide assistance in client intake and work, and to complete new and existing projects.  You can develop leadership and supervision skills of staff by mentoring students, all while nurturing the next generation of lawyers and seeing potential employees in action.  These internship partnerships also develop direct links with our School of Law for future projects, partnerships and opportunities.

Internships are invaluable for our students.  Our students are among the most diverse across Australia. 64% of them are first in family to go to University, and 45% speak a language other than English at home.  Our students are passionate, engaged, curious and grateful for the opportunities these internships provide, including developing valuable professional skills, connections with lawyers and mentors, a deeper understanding of law in practice and its challenges, and supervised practical work experience.

We are committed to developing skilful, engaged, wholehearted, reflective and resilient young lawyers in our School of Law and adding value to the legal profession, and hope you might contribute through our internship program.

If you are interested in participating in the legal internship program, please contact Rebecca Dominguez, Director / Principal Solicitor, at r.dominguez@westernsydney.edu.au or Dylan Conceicao, Project Officer, at d.conceicao@westernsydney.edu.au.

 

Cadetships

The Law School currently partners with Coleman Greig in a paid cadetship system. The students are recruited in their first year of study and remain employed by Coleman Greig throughout their degree. This is an elite program and attracts the Law School’s best and brightest students. We are keen to develop other cadetship opportunities for our students.

A cadetship program particularly benefits employers in the Greater Western Sydney area, because it attracts high achieving students who are likely to want to remain living and working in the area once they graduate. It provides employers with the opportunity to screen these potential lawyers, right from their first year of study: to see how they operate in the ‘real world’, before they are offered a job as a graduate lawyer.

If you are interested in developing a program such as this, please contact Sandy Noakes, Director of Academic Program, First Year Law at s.noakes@westernsydney.edu.au

For information on how to advertise Current Job Opportunities to law students, please contact lawenquiry@westernsydney.edu.au.

For information on Prizes and Scholarships, please visit the School of Law website here.

For information on Giving and Philanthropy, please visit the School of Law website here.