If you have the restless ambition to work at the heart of change, and if you are prepared to ask questions and take initiative, you’ll feel like you belong here.

Our People Values

Excellence: We drive excellence and build trust in all aspects of our work for our clients and our firm.

Energy: We bring a sense of urgency and ambition to all that we do.

Collaboration: We are committed to teamwork, listening, supporting, respecting and enabling each other.

Innovation: We foster imagination, risk taking, courage and curiosity, challenging ourselves and each other to bebetter.

Citizenship: We act with honesty, authenticity and respect, and undertake initiatives for the greater good.

Corporate Citizenship

Right from our inception in 1988 we have taken seriously our responsibilities to the communities in which we work and live.  From our pioneering pro bono program, which utilises our legal expertise to address social injustice, to the fact that we have been carbon neutral since 2017, to our work supporting the development of Indigenous lawyers, we strive to contribute to a more just and sustainable future.

Pro Bono

At Gilbert + Tobin, pro bono is a vital part of who we are and what we do. We are proud proponents of social justice and since the firm’s beginning in 1988, pro bono work has been an integral part of our practice.

We have a particular focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and organisations, people with disabilities, refugees and human rights matters. We work hard to ensure our services are accessible to people who need them, both in the cities and in rural and remote Australia.

In 1996 we became the first firm in Australia to appoint a full-time, in house pro bono lawyer. We now have two full-time pro bono partners, Michelle Hannon and Anne Cregan, pro bono special counsel Laura Lombardo and three full-time pro bono lawyers together with paralegals from our Indigenous Legal Cadetship Program.

Pro bono is not only the domain of the pro bono team.  Pro bono work is undertaken by lawyers across the firm. On average, our lawyers spend 73.4 hours each year on pro bono work – adding up to over 32,150.4 hours in 2021-22, conservatively valued at $17.3 million.

Corporate Social Responsibility

We actively engage with the social and environmental impacts of our operations.

Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program specifically focuses on three streams – community, reconciliation and the environment. Through these programs we:

• Work to ensure the justice system is accessible to everyone by helping parts of the community who cannot afford legal assistance;
• Monitor, improve and report on our environmental performance to our key clients, and to the public;
• Commit with our suppliers of goods and services to achieve better environmental and social sustainability by managing our procurement processes;
• Maintain an open work place where staff are encouraged to commit to causes, and provide the flexibility to enable them to do that.

We report on our CSR performance to the Australian Legal Sector Alliance (AusLSA). AusLSA is an industry-led association working collaboratively to improve sustainability in the legal profession.  AusLSA’s sustainability framework includes sustainable and inclusive workplaces, community support, environmental conservation and responsible governance. See G+T’s performance in the AusLSA 2022 Legal Sector Sustainability Update.

We continue to look for ways to improve our contribution as a responsible corporate citizen.

Innovation

G+T is built on and thrives on technological disruption. It is in the DNA of the firm; the G+T attitude of embracing innovation has always gone hand in hand with business success.

We have a comprehensive innovation strategy that brings together the G+T team with clients and startups to explore better ways of meeting the needs of our clients, new business models and more efficient business processes.

Our innovation team is made up of leading legal practitioners, consultants and technologists from across the firm, all interested in the future of legal services, moving the law forward and creating new opportunities to better serve our clients. What’s more, you can also elect to undertake a rotation through our G+T Innovate area as both a clerk and a graduate.