Priorities for 2024
Our priorities for 2024 are:
- To remain focused on and committed to respectfully listening and responding to First Nations perspectives on the referendum result, and to use all our energies and resources as a law firm committed to Indigenous empowerment to help bring about the necessary statutory, policy and common law changes that First Nations people would like to see as their preferred alternatives to the Voice.
- To evaluate the impact of the First Nations Procurement List and Procurement Questionnaire on procurement by employees at Arnold Bloch Leibler and consider other ways to encourage an increase in the percentage of spending by the firm on First Nations businesses, including continuing to explore opportunities for large-scale procurement.
- To create a working group that, with the key guidance of, and working together with, the Human Resources team, reviews and develops recommendations to the Partners that are aimed at facilitating First Nations recruitment and retention, which may for example focus on:
- which types of events are most successful at attracting First Nations law students and others (together with the Human Resources team); and
- the potential for a First Nations paralegal cadetship.
- To explore options for, and the feasibility of, a sponsorship arrangement between Arnold Bloch Leibler and a First Nations law student association.
- To continue developing options to distribute the AISN newsletter externally to clients, advisers and friends of the firm to circulate with their teams.
- To install permanent plaques with First Nations place names for the Melbourne and Sydney office reception areas.
- To continue to develop and expand cultural awareness training, including by implementing First Nations cultural awareness training for all Partners of Arnold Bloch Leibler.
- To explore ways to increase engagement in AISN events and initiatives, particularly by law graduates, first year lawyers and Sydney colleagues.