Prosple Australia/GradAustralia Profiles

The opportunity to do pro bono work and help vulnerable members of the community is a really rewarding part of my role at Ashurst, so I always make sure to put my hand up to help out when I have the capacity.

Charlie Light studied Bachelor of Laws (Hons), Bachelor or Arts (History/American Studies) at the Australian National University and is a Lawyer at Attorney-General's Department (AGD).

Ella studied Bachelor of Business Administration/Bachelor of Laws (Hons) at Australian National University, graduated in 2020, and is now a Graduate at DLA Piper Perth

As a member of the Thomson Geer social club, I find time to help out plan events and organise the events on the day.

Every day at 10 AM, my team has a short meeting to go 'around the grounds' and explain our priority tasks for the day.

As a junior lawyer, I am often approached to participate in pro-bono matters and have found them to be both interesting and rewarding tasks.

The Partner with who I work for has an open-door policy, and it absolutely applies even with him working in the Sydney office and me in the Canberra office. I’m a bit stuck on what to do in one of my files, so I give him a call to discuss my ideas and get his thoughts.

My team specialises in aviation law so I frequently get to work on airport-related matters.