‘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
Balancing risk management and efficient legal delivery
LOD’s most recent global survey indicates that in-house legal teams are increasingly facing the twin challenges of managing risk and prioritising volumes of work
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 09 Aug 2022
LexisNexis unveils in-house advice platform
Global provider of legal, government and corporate information solutions LexisNexis has launched a practical guidance platform to help corporate counsel manage complex ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Mon, 08 Aug 2022
‘No order short of strike-off would be appropriate’
Despite a “lengthy and commendable history” in law, a South Australia-based lawyer with an “extensive history of disciplinary proceedings” is set to be struck from the ...
THE BAR • Mon, 08 Aug 2022
