The City of Sydney Law Society has various subcommittees:

• Seminars and CPD events - Our committee members and Executive Officer, Ann Parisi,  work together on scheduling informative CPD seminars. We try to keep topics varied and interesting and ensure they cover the mandatory CPD categories.  If you wish to suggest a speaker or topic or any enquiries in relation to the other subcommittees, please contact our Ann Parisi, Executive Officer by email.
• Annual Dinner - Alexandra Bradley, with the assistance of other Committee Members co-ordinates a fun and engaging end of year Annual Dinner.  
• Social Events - Our other annual social events include the Law Week Breakfast, occasionally a specialised Seminar Topic Breakfast and our always popular Cocktail Function at the Downing Centre Court Complex.
• Social Media - Our President, George Mavrakis and his team work on keeping everyone in touch with updates with Linkedin and Instagram.
• Website - Our past Vice President, Wayne Dixon has worked hard on updating our website to ensure it brings greater benefit to members, particularly during the difficult work from COVID period. Various noticeboards have been established including employment opportunities, lawyer to lawyer discussions and queries, availability of past seminar papers and hopefully in the not too distant future the availability of recorded webinars.
• Practice Viability - The overarching goal of the Practice Viability Sub-Committee, headed by Phillip Roberts, is to improve the business environment for profitability of small to medium sized legal practices and to contribute to conversations about advancing the legal profession generally. From the time of its establishment this sub-committee the strategies adopted by this sub-committee have included:

  1. Enhancing the image and reputation for lawyers in the wider community;
  2. Advocating for the adoption of pro-business policies by government and semi-government bodies that encourage the growth of small to medium sized law offices;
  3. Exploring ways that deregulation of the legal services market to avoid excessive or duplicitous regulation (e.g. migration lawyers and migration agents);
  4. Identifying and disseminating strategies for small to medium sized firms to reduce costs and payment times by clients;
  5. Contributing to discussions about the ways that government agencies engage private firms (eg legal aid bodies);
  6. Promoting the adoption of technology by small to medium sized practices to enhance their productivity and effectiveness in serving clients in the modern digital economy, and
  7. Engaging in general topics of discussion within the profession such as wellbeing and depression of lawyers, access to justice and gender or cultural diversity.

• Practical Legal Training (PLT) - Coordinated by Robert Eaves and with great assistance from Emeritus Professor David Barker and other committee members, the PLT subcommittee offers assistance to graduate and law students in finding PLT placement to facilitate completion of requirements for admission. 
• Charities - For many years, CSLS has supported the NSW Law Society's Presidents' Charities.   LS President McGrath's Charity is United Way Australia.  The organisation runs a program that prepares children for learning before their schooling years, by inspiring a love of reading. The program, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, builds resilience and paves the way for a brighter future for the next generation, where every child is able to read, learn and ultimately succeed in life. A little support can make this dream a reality.
• Duty Solicitors Pro Bono Scheme at the Downing Centre -  Committee Member Colleen Donnelly is now coordinating the Roster at the Downing Centre. Qualified solicitors volunteer their time to provide a free legal service at the Downing Centre Local Court to members of the public who appear at the Court unrepresented.  This service is greatly appreciated by the Magistrates.