Jerome Doraisamy is the managing editor of Lawyers Weekly and HR Leader. He is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in New South Wales, and a board director of the Minds Count Foundation. You can email Jerome at: [email protected]
VIDEO: Entering ‘a period of unrest’
In the first instalment of Legal Firesides, award-nominated lawyer Trevor Withane speaks about the state of affairs in restructuring and insolvency, particularly the ...
SME LAW • Sun, 14 Aug 2022
Send Payments, PEXA collaborate on streamlined multi-currency property transactions
International payments and foreign exchange service Send Payments is teaming up with global digital property exchange platform PEXA to provide multi-currency property ...
SME LAW • Sun, 14 Aug 2022
Australia now Clyde & Co’s 3rd largest country by fees generated
Global law firm Clyde & Co has published its latest financial results, which show that its four Australian offices are, collectively, bringing in the firm’s ...
BIG LAW • Fri, 12 Aug 2022
‘Onus on the employee’ to make shorter weeks work
Lawyers who have the option of practising in non-traditional time frames — such as four-day weeks or nine-day fortnights — are getting “a pretty good deal”, and it is, ...
BIG LAW • Thu, 11 Aug 2022
A-G: ‘Only a fraction’ of funding for women’s legal services was delivered last year
Lawyers will be “staggered to realise”, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC MP said last weekend, that funding by the Morrison government for women’s legal services has ...
POLITICS • Wed, 10 Aug 2022
Inside the legal sector’s massive change management exercise
The days of lawyers having their names on the door of an office are gone. And they might not even have their name on a desk, as the way firms work undergoes a significant ...
BIG LAW • Wed, 10 Aug 2022
Fees are increasing. Why, and how can in-house teams manage?
Corporate counsel are seeing rates for their external providers increase. There are numerous potential reasons for this, and also a handful of ways that law departments ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 09 Aug 2022
Want predictable costs? Engage a NewLaw team, says one GC
In order to ensure accuracy in financial forecasts, one general counsel feels that engaging external providers that employ NewLaw methodology, such as monthly fixed ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 09 Aug 2022
Are recruiters seeing more ESOPs for aspiring in-house candidates?
The appetite for employee share/stock ownership plans is “definitely” increasing, according to one general counsel. Here, Lawyers Weekly speaks with two legal recruiters ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 09 Aug 2022