18th Performance Report of the National Pro Bono Target
The Australian Pro Bono Centre has published the 18th Annual Performance Report of the National Pro Bono Target (Target), reflecting a significant 8.11% rise in pro bono hours in the last financial year.
In FY2025, signatories to the Centre's world-leading pro bono benchmarking program completed a record total of 844,999 pro bono hours. The average number of pro bono hours per lawyer was 42.3, well exceeding the national benchmark of 35 hours and the highest average ever recorded.
Target signatories include law firms, barristers' chambers, in-house corporate and government legal teams, and individual solicitors and barristers volunteering in a personal capacity. Signatories report each year on pro bono work which meets the Centre’s national definition of ‘pro bono legal services’, focused on legal assistance to vulnerable individuals, charities, other not-forprofit organisations, social enterprises, and on issues of public interest. It also encapsulates law reform and policy work and free community legal education.
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