About
Clarissa is the Firm’s Pro Bono Associate. She is an experienced charity lawyer, with significant expertise in individual and corporate philanthropy and in advising charities and other not-for-profit organisations on the charity law aspects of their activities. Clarissa works on the day-to-day management of the Firm's award-winning Pro Bono practice which focuses on access to justice - providing free legal advice both to vulnerable individuals and to small charities and innovative social enterprises to support their work and strengthen their capacity.
Clarissa sits on the Public Affairs Committee of Philanthropy Impact, and is a member of the Charity Law Association.
She is also a trustee of Cambridge House, a charity working with communities across London to fight poverty, social inequity and injustice.
Experience
- Facilitating and managing the delivery of legal advice for vulnerable individuals and a wide range of smaller charities and innovative social enterprises falling within the Firm’s Pro Bono Policy.
- Managing the Firm’s Access to Justice work and, in particular, working with Z2K on Disability Benefit Appeals to represent vulnerable clients in their appeals at the First-Tier Tribunal.
- Developing Legal Education Sessions for the charity partners of the Charles Russell Speechlys Foundation.