Handbook for lawyers

Sign up to ATLAS – our online system for practitioners to lodge and track applications for grants of legal assistance, extensions of assistance and claims.

Updates about ATLAS, our online grants management system for practitioners.

For step-by-step instructions on how to use the most common functions in ATLAS.

Book in today for one-on-one advice from our practitioner support officers.

Learn about our support program for lawyers applying for Law Institute of Victoria specialist accreditation in family law in 2025.

A new law will mean victim-survivors of sexual harassment won’t have to pay their employer's costs if they lose.

We expect more clients to experience the benefits of this therapeutic approach to justice as it continues its expansion across all Victorian headquarter courts.

We are expanding our funding guidelines for family violence intervention order matters to better meet the needs of people who need support.

A special conference on Wurundjeri Country brought together representatives from across the justice and legal sectors to support implementation of the latest reforms to the Bail Act 1977 (Vic).

Download the tax invoice, grant application and other forms, worksheets and checklists.

How VLA handles and protects the personal information it receives in relation to grants of legal assistance.

Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) may make a grant of legal assistance to a person under our special circumstances guidelines.