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Guided Legal Query Form

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  • Talk to a lawyer

    By completing the following questions, you’ll help us match you to the most suitable legal service for your situation. To do this, we will also ask for some of your personal details.

    The next few questions should take less than 8 minutes to complete.

    If you have any documents you’d like to share with a lawyer, you can upload them now or send them to us later.

    Arts Law offers free 20-minute legal advice sessions for individual artists who are below our means test requirements.

    Our free advice is means tested to ensure that we are helping artists who are not able to afford other legal services such as a private lawyer.

    If you, your group or organisation do not meet our means test requirements, you will need to purchase a subscription in order to access our services.

    By answering the next few questions about your situation, you’ll know if you will need to purchase a subscription.

    Find out more about our subscription plans and pricing.

    The Artists in the Black program is a service of Arts Law that provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, arts organisations and businesses with legal advice, resources and professional development opportunities.

    We provide all these services in a culturally safe and appropriate way.

    Artists, musicians, performers, writers, and other creative practitioners are eligible to receive advice from Arts Law about issues relating to their artistic practice.

    Arts organisations of all kinds are also eligible for advice from Arts Law.

    If your problem falls outside of our area of expertise or does not relate to your arts practice we will help put you in contact with an organisation or legal service that is better placed to help you.

    There are some limited instances where we may not be able to give you advice due to a conflict of interest. If this is the case we will do our best to put you in touch with another organisation or legal service that can help you.

    Read our full Charter of Service.

    You should receive a follow up email or phone call within 3 working days of submitting your details.

    One of our team will be in touch to work out how we can best help you and book you in for an advice session with a lawyer.

    You should receive your advice over the phone within 7-14 days.

    If you need a lawyer to review a document (documents could be a contract, emails, manuscript, video or recording etc) you should receive your advice within 10-20 days from receiving all your information.

    All our advice sessions are booked in the order we receive your information.

    Arts Law does our best to deliver our services as quickly as possible. If you need advice sooner than our turn around times allow please contact us.

    We will try our best to put you in touch with another organisation or legal service that can help you urgently.

    Please be aware that some services we can refer you to will have their own fees.

    All our legal advice is delivered over the phone in a private one-on-one call with either an Arts Law lawyer or with a pro bono lawyer we have a relationship with.

    You’ll be able to ask questions about your situation, the law and get quality professional advice.

    You can also request for other individuals to be present such as a translator or support person.

    Yes. Arts Law respects your rights to privacy and confidentiality.

    All information you provide to Arts Law will be kept confidential unless you give us permission to disclose information about you to a third party or we have a legal obligation to do so.

    Read our privacy policy.

    Arts Law does not provide representation or drafting services.

    We have a range of contract templates available for sale on our website here. They have been designed to help you create your own contracts suitable for a wide range of situations.

    If you’re not sure what contract template is right for you, book an advice session and one of our lawyers will help you.

    We can also arrange for a lawyer to review your contract before you sign it.

  • Your question

  • Please explain your legal issue and list the questions you need answered. Include as much detail as possible e.g. dates.

  • Who else was involved

  • Please list the full names of any other people and/or organisations involved.

    We won’t contact any of these people but need to make sure a conflict of interest doesn’t happen.

  • Do you have any documents to share with a lawyer?

  • These are documents which will help us to understand your situation better. They include: invoices, emails, screenshots, contracts, terms and conditions.

  • You can submit up to five files. Accepted formats can be in: JPEG, PNG, PDF and/or Word documents.

    Your total documents should be less than 11MB.

    You can skip this step and provide documents later but the more info we have the better we can work out how to help you.

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    Accepted file types: xls, xlsx, doc, docx, txt, pdf, png, jpg, jpeg, gif, pptx, ppt, csv, rtf.

  • Who is this for?

  • Are you enquiring as an individual or on behalf of an organisation? *More Info

  • What arts sector is this question about?

  • About you

    The following questions will help us match you to the best service for your situation.

  • About you

  • Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY

  • Is there anything else you'd like to mention before we speak with you?

    For example:

    • Are you filling in this form for someone else?
    • What are your preferred pronouns?
    • Do you have any accessibility requirements for your telephone advice session?
    • Will you need a translator and for which language?

  • What is your average yearly income?

    This includes income from your art practice and any other jobs you have.

    We do our best to help all artists regardless of their income. However, we also provide low cost and subsidised services for priority artists who may not be able to afford a private lawyer.

  • Please briefly summarise your legal issue. *
  • We will contact you between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday EST. Please indicate if you are not available at these times * More Info
  • Is there a deadline that you must receive the advice by? Please include the details of any deadlines. * Note: Arts Law will do our best to provide advice within your deadlines but cannot guarantee to provide advice earlier than our standard turn around times.
You can access Artists in the Black services

Arts Law provides tailored legal assistance and advice to Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and communities.

What you get access to:

  • Culturally appropriate and confidential legal help
  • Free legal advice services for individual artists
  • Free Arts Law subscription for individual artists
  • Groups and organisations can also get legal advice, but with a subscription purchase

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