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Student innovation provides a helping hand for renters
Stories 09 Jan 2023

Student innovation provides a helping hand for renters When a team of UTS students set out to create an online self-help tool for renters in 2018, they couldn’t have known that the impact of COVID-19 over the years that followed would see ...

Progress and purpose: supporting the First Peoples' Assembly
Stories 06 Nov 2022

Progress and purpose: supporting the First Peoples' Assembly ...

Restoring wetlands to capture carbon
Insight 26 Aug 2019

Swapping suits for gumboots and laptops for lab coats, thirteen of our people spent a day with scientists at sites in Melbourne and Sydney to investigate how mangrove restoration enhances carbon capture and storage. ...

Supreme Court decision overturns mandatory sentencing of 13 year old
Insight 16 Sep 2019

Meet David*, an Aboriginal boy from Bunbury in Western Australia, who was just 13 years old when he was sentenced under Western Australia's mandatory sentencing laws, having pleaded guilty to a number of burglary offences. ...

Investing in innovative approaches to support the vulnerable
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McAuley Community Services for Women McAuley Community Service for Women supports women and their children by providing 24/7 crisis support and temporary accommodation. For women aged 25 to 44, family violence is the greatest health risk ...

The Jawun secondment: Tree change for a worthy cause
Insight 26 May 2019

Our ongoing support of the Jawun program sees us investing in the development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities around Australia. ...

Bridging the digital divide with tech recycling
Stories 18 Feb 2024

Bridging the digital divide with tech recycling Economic hardships often prevent young people from accessing cutting-edge technology, leaving the most vulnerable disadvantaged in a world that depends on digital resources for education. ...

Pro bono and community highlights by the number
Stoties 21 Dec 2022

Pro bono and community highlights by the numbers Our community work is important to who we are as a firm. We aim to help people through some of their toughest periods, work towards creating a more sustainable future and promote ...

Our history
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Allens was founded on 22 July 1822, the day after 21-year-old George Allen was admitted as an attorney and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and became the first person to complete their full legal training in Australia. When he began his small legal practice in a cottage on Elizabeth Street in Sydney, he could not have forseen the story that would follow.  ...

Business teams
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The best lawyers need the best business partners. At Allens, our business teams are also specialists in their field. ...

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