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BDW trials wiki technology

BLAKE DAWSON Waldron (BDW) is trialling the use of a wiki in the intellectual property, communications and technology (IPCT) group. Essentially the wiki is an information-sharing platform that sits on the firm’s internal network and everyone within the...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2007 12:00 AM by Lawyers Weekly

Filed under: Blake Dawson Waldron

Show me the money: lawyers say

A VAST majority of Lawyers Weekly readers believe that a pay rise is the best means by which their employers can show them that they are appreciated. A pay rise rates above a promotion and more contact with senior management as the most attractive pat...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2007 12:00 AM by Lawyers Weekly

Filed under: poll

Firms warned to embrace Web 2.0

AUSTRALIAN LAW firms risk losing clients as well as talent if they don’t make use of Web 2.0 technologies, an expert warns. Ross Dawson, chairman of Future Exploration Network, said that Australian firms are lagging far behind their US and UK counterparts...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2007 12:00 AM by Lawyers Weekly

Filed under: web 2.0

Excess or necessity? Lawyers reflect on C7 litigation

Now that the costs of the C7 litigation have been released, many are focusing on what the lawyers took home. But the profession is pointing instead to the way various parties handled the case, and what could have been done differently. Kate Gibbs reports...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2007 12:00 AM by Lawyers Weekly

Filed under: C7

Freehills hosts website re-launch

LAWYERS WEEKLY officially launched its new-look website last night with the legal profession in Sydney. Freehills hosted the event in their Sydney Martin Place offices, from where guests could sip Singapore slings and look out over a sparkling Sydney...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2007 12:00 AM by Lawyers Weekly

Filed under: Lawyers Weekly

Greater backing needed for privilege: ALRC

THE FEDERAL Government should enact legislation making it clear that client legal privilege applies to the investigative powers of federal agencies, and can only be overriden through direct reference to coercive powers, according to proposals by the Australian...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2007 12:00 AM by Lawyers Weekly

Filed under: legal professional privilege

Talent acquisition’s edge

INDUSTRY-LEADING companies are nearly twice as likely to focus their talent acquisition efforts on long-term workforce planning, according to a recent US report. Such companies also enjoy greater insight into immediate and anticipated talent needs and...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2007 12:00 AM by Lawyers Weekly

Filed under: talent

Law Society sham led to huge waste in members’ funds: insider tells

THE LAW SOCIETY of New South Wales has received criticism from within its own ranks about the way it has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of members’ funds in the past year. According to Law Society councillor, Tony de Govrik, there has been a ...