Jerome Doraisamy is the managing editor of professional services (including Lawyers Weekly, HR Leader, Accountants Daily, and Accounting Times). 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]
Meaningful social contact critical for wellness post-pandemic
Ensuring substantive connection among legal teams, together with transparency about one’s work, is a responsibility that leaders and individuals have in ensuring optimal ...
SME LAW • Wed, 08 Jul 2020
Vote now for the foremost lawyer of the 21st century
Voting is now open for The Lawyers Weekly Award, to be presented to one individual for making substantial, consequential achievements in advancing the Australian legal ...
BIG LAW • Tue, 07 Jul 2020
6 ways to be ‘headhuntable’ during COVID-19
If you want to be noticed by headhunters during these turbulent times, there are half a dozen steps you must take, writes Jason Elias.
BIG LAW • Tue, 07 Jul 2020
Continuous disclosure challenges post-pandemic
As the Australian marketplace turns its attention to life after coronavirus, legal departments will have to be especially diligent in protecting businesses from class ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 07 Jul 2020
How operationally mature are global legal teams?
New research has identified the functions on which legal departments self-identify as being most mature with regard to legal operations.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 07 Jul 2020
Lendlease GC joins White & Case
The general counsel for Lendlease Construction Australia has moved to global firm White & Case LLP as a partner in its commercial litigation practice.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 07 Jul 2020
Commercial leases for law firms set to evolve
Flexibility, adaptability and affordability will be prominent features of leasing arrangements for law firms nationwide post-pandemic.
BIG LAW • Mon, 06 Jul 2020
Identifying the markers of GFC and impacts on legal services
Australia never felt the GFC like the rest of the west. However, the trajectories look and feel the same, writes John Kettle.
BIG LAW • Mon, 06 Jul 2020
Allens appoints 27 to senior positions
Global law firm Allens has appointed 15 new partners and 12 new managing associates.
BIG LAW • Mon, 06 Jul 2020