Law Council of Australia president Arthur Moses SC will meet with representatives of the legal profession and people in the community to discuss the "dire" situation facing the state's legal aid commissions and community legal sector.

It comes after The Examiner reported on the Law Society of Tasmania's concerns regarding a federal funding shortfall in the National Partnership Agreement on Legal Assistance Services.

Tasmania and South Australia were the only states to see their funding cut.

Mr Moses said Tasmania's legal assistance sector could fall off a "funding cliff".

"If the state government had not stepped in, [community legal centres] would have been forced to reduce services by 40 per cent," he said.

"This would have impacted some of the most disadvantaged ... members of the community."

Mr Moses will also call for improved resourcing of the Launceston Family Court.