Head of Pro Bono & Community Impact,

King & Wood Mallesons

Dan is Head of Pro Bono & Community Impact at King & Wood Mallesons leading a team of pro bono & social impact experts via the KWM Community Impact program (pro bono, skilled & community volunteering, social mobility, philanthropy and reconciliation & empowerment).

Dan is a leading pro bono, community and responsible business lawyer and was named in the 2016 Hot List by Australasian Lawyer magazine. He has been a speaker at the International Bar Association Conference in Sydney, the Asia Pro Bono Conference in Myanmar, Hong Kong and Indonesia, the PBI Conference in the United States, the National Pro Bono & A2J Conference in Sydney, the NACLC Conferences in Brisbane & Melbourne and the Australian Pro Bono Academy in Sydney. Dan is often quoted in the legal and mainstream press including The Age, LIJ, Boardroom Radio, Lawyers Weekly, Brisbane Legal and ADVOC News. He has written various articles that have been published in the LIJ, Governance Directions and My Business.

Dan has developed considerable expertise in acting for (and assisting) community legal centres (CLCs(, charities and non-profit organisations. . He has built a substantial practice advising and assisting charitable institutions and is a trusted advisor to many of the largest charities, non-profits and CLCs in Australia. Dan has highly developed skills in strategy planning and implementation, communications and community engagement.

Dan has been involved in devising and delivering significant pro bono, volunteering, charitable and community engagement projects, with large teams of people and in a variety of jurisdictions around the world.

Since joining KWM, Dan has grown the pro bono practice by 73% (to 51,292 hours in FY20), skilled volunteering output by 260% (to 2,236 hours in FY20) and philanthropy by 10.5% (to $981,204 in FY20). In FY20, 87% of KWM lawyers participated in the pro bono practice, 50.5% of all partners and staff contributed to workplace giving and appeals and 36% of staff participated in volunteering. The FY20 output has been the largest to date in KWM’s history.

Dan has worked in the pro bono & community sector for over 14 years. Prior to coming to KWM, he was Partner at an Australian firm where he led the pro bono & community program and prior to that position, Dan was the Asia Pacific Pro Bono Director for a global firm.