Register to use ATLAS
Sign up to ATLAS – our online system for practitioners to lodge and track applications for grants of legal assistance, extensions of assistance and claims.
ATLAS updates and support
Updates about ATLAS, our online grants management system for practitioners.
ATLAS user guides
For step-by-step instructions on how to use the most common functions in ATLAS.
Latest news for lawyers
Protecting privacy and data – obligations for panel practitioners
Refresh your knowledge on how to better safeguard client data.
Lotjpa service critically important in supporting Yoorrook and truth-telling
A reflection found that clients spoke of Lotjpa’s ‘valued advice’ in supporting them to tell their stories to the Yoorrook Justice Commission.
New family violence training helps staff better support and improve safety for LGBTIQA+ people
Working with LGBTIQA+ people is the seventh module in our family violence Client Safety Framework training package.
Victorian insights from the national census of legal aid private practitioners
More than half of panel practitioners in Victoria say that most or all of their case load is legal aid work, the highest of any jurisdiction in the country.
New resources to support better bail applications
Co-produced with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, we have created new resources to assist criminal law practitioners understand the latest provisions of the Bail Act 1977 (Vic).
New and increased panel practitioner fees in 2025
We are responding to feedback from panel practitioners by introducing a range of new and increased fees for criminal law and family law work.
Common requests
Invoices, forms and worksheets
Download the tax invoice, grant application and other forms, worksheets and checklists.
Privacy protection
How VLA handles and protects the personal information it receives in relation to grants of legal assistance.
Special circumstances
Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) may make a grant of legal assistance to a person under our special circumstances guidelines.
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