The Federation of Community Legal Centres estimated $200 million is needed nationally to meet current needs for legal support and other services.

The attorneys-general from Victoria, NSW, ACT, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania met with federal attorney general George Brandis on Friday to raise their concerns at future cuts.

The Commonwealth restored funding it initially cut from community legal services, pledged under the previous federal government.

The funding will instead be cut in 2017/18.

ARC Justice executive officer Peter Noble said while it was a positive to see the initial funding maintained, community legal centres needed to be properly funded now more than ever.

"It's delayed pain at the moment, they've been able to dodge the immediate issue," he said.

"The issue raised by juxtaposing making Rosie Batty the Australian of the Year with cutting family violence assistance created a problem for the government.

"The problem now is that in three years time, when the funding is set to end, the public might not be as mindful about the importance of family violence assistance."

All eight attorneys-general wrote to Senator Brandis in March calling for the reversal of cuts to legal services and promising not to make future reductions.

They then wrote a second letter stating the decision to guarantee the funding until 2017/18 would undermine the ability of the states and territories to allocate funding to community legal centres.

Mr Noble said he supported the letters sent by the attorneys-general to increase legal services to those who need them most.

"It's fantastic to see (Victorian attorney-general) Martin Pakula raising these concerns with the federal attorney-general," he said.

"Like the state attorney-general, we are concerned to see evidence-based decisions on need ignored and encourage the Commonwealth to dramatically increase services, as per the Productivity Commission report."