Salvos Legal wins prestigious law awards
Salvos Legal wins prestigious law awards
25 May 2017
Mary Anne Ireland (right), receives the Law Firm of the Year (1-100) Lawyers award, on behalf of Salvos Legal, at the 2017 Australasian Law Awards.
Salvos Legal was named Law Firm of the Year (1-100 lawyers) and Corporate Citizen Firm of the Year for the third consecutive year in the 2017 Australasian Law Awards on 18 May.
The awards recognise Salvos Legal’s unique business model and achievements over the past 12 months.
“By being good at the commercial work we do, we can do more good in the community through our Salvos Legal Humanitarian law firm,” said Jennifer Parker, Salvos Legal Marketing and Communications Manager.
Since launching as a social enterprise law firm in December 2010, Salvos Legal has acted or assisted in 18,800 humanitarian cases, for free. This includes a small number of cases from Courtyard Legal – the Salvos Legal predecessor that operated from the courtyard of Auburn Corps, Sydney.
“This award is also a reflection of our ‘people’ program ‘Flourishment’, which aims to go beyond providing activities, programs and benefits that make this a pleasant place to work – to create an environment in which every member of our team can flourish.”
Salvos Legal competed against a number of the “big” law firms to win the Corporate Citizen of the Year award.
Mark Khoo (left) receives the Corporate Citizen Firm of the Year Award on behalf of Salvos Legal at the 2017 Australasian Law Awards.
To win the Law Firm of the Year (1-100 Lawyers), Salvos Legal were up against a competitive field of their peers in size.
“The success of our business model – where commercial clients help fund our free legal services for disadvantaged and marginalised people – was a driving factor in this award,” said Jennifer.
“Another factor was our expansion in humanitarian services, such as our free legal clinic for people seeking asylum in Queensland. Known as the Salvos Legal Humanitarian Asylum Seeker Clinic, this service provides access to lawyers for assistance with protection visa applications.
“Also of note, was Salvos Legal becoming a certified B Corporation in recognition of our firm’s mission to change people’s lives through access to justice, funded by our social enterprise model commercial law firm.”
As explained on the Salvos Legal website, “B Corporations are a new kind of company which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems (the B stands for ‘Benefit’). It’s like Fair Trade certification but for the whole business rather than a single product like coffee or chocolate (although we love those too!).
“We’re really excited to be among the first Australian companies to join the global B Corp community of over 1700 certified B Corporations in 130 industries.”
The team at Salvos Legal would like to extend their thanks and appreciation to their team, clients and supporters that have made these awards possible.
For more information, go to salvoslegal.com.au
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