Government Legal Department to set up pro bono network

The Government Legal Department (GLD) has launched a volunteering and pro bono network, to mark National Pro Bono Week.

Stephen Braviner Roman, the director-general who sponsors GLD’s pro bono activities, said: “Many of us in GLD are involved in pro bono or volunteering activities in our own time, but this new network and these partnerships will demonstrate just how seriously we take our pro bono commitments.”

GLD has also entered a partnership with Rule of Law Expertise UK, under which GLD lawyers will be able to work on capability building initiatives in Africa, Asia and the Middle East in countries where the Department for International Development has projects to improve the rule of law.

This new partnership supplements that already underway with the Citizenship Foundation’s Lawyers in Schools programme, in which GLD lawyers work with the Pimlico Academy to increase students awareness and understanding of the law.

Mark Smulian