Fourth Pillar is a pro bono organisation.
Created to provide legal services to people who cannot afford them.
Our purpose is to make legal support more accessible, and to help ensure that financial hardship doesn't stop someone seeking assistance.
At the centre of our work is a simple belief: people deserve access to legal help and to be treated with dignity, regardless of their financial circumstances.
For someone facing a legal problem, the cost of professional help can be a major barrier. Uncertainty about where to turn can make it harder.
Fourth Pillar responds with pro bono legal services, meaning services provided without charging professional legal fees.
- 01The cost
The price of professional help is a major barrier for someone facing a legal problem.
- 02The unknown
Not knowing where to turn can make a difficult situation harder still.
- 03Our answer
Pro bono legal services: help provided without charging professional legal fees.
- 04The belief
People deserve access to legal help, and to be treated with dignity, whatever their finances.
Contemporary, confident, human.
We do
- Plain language
- Strong visual storytelling
- Humour and references where they fit naturally
- Credible and sensitive
We don't
- Forced slang
- Corporate language
- Making light of anyone's legal difficulties
- Portraying people who seek help as helpless