Macrossans Lawyers Brisbane law firm

Macrossans Lawyers is committed to making a positive contribution to the community.

The firm provides both financial assistance and pro bono legal advice for our chosen charity Guide Dogs Queensland contuining over 20 years' support for this organisation.  Guide Dogs Queensland (GDQ). For further information on how you can support GDQ, please visit www.guidedogsqld.com.au.

We believe that giving pro bono advice to the disadvantaged is part of fulfilling our professional and social responsibility. Pro bono work is a matter of personal choice, with many of our lawyers sharing our commitment and donating their personal time to help disadvantaged individuals, local charities and not-for-profit organisations. 

Macrossans Lawyers personnel advise or participate in the activities of various  charitable and not for profit organisations including:

• Providing pro bono services for clients referred by the Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House
• Corporate Angels Network - a charity which arranges airfares for family members in country areas to accompany people for medical treatment
• The Congress of Aboriginal and Torres St Islander Nurses (CATSIN) - a group which represents indigenous nurses and assists to train them so that they can practice back in their communities
• The Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT) 
• The Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation - one of the largest charitable foundations in Australia. Macrossans Lawyers has helped this trust commit over $35 million for long-term support for :
  - Medical research
  - Queensland Cancer Fund resulting in a cancer research program
  - Prevention of Blindness Foundation, leading to the establishment of a world-class Ophthalmology Research Centre at South Brisbane
  - Salvation Army, leading to the introduction of the House for Youth project that provides accommodation for homeless youth.

In the last two years, our alliance partner Hunt & Hunt has also donated to over 20 Australian not-for-profit organisations, including UNICEF, Clean Up Australia, National Breast Cancer Foundation, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Make a Wish Foundation, Kids Help Line and World Vision.