Steps to success for company secretaries
According to award-winning company secretary Helen Hardy, such role is changing, and there are key traits that professionals such as her must possess in order to best ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 09 Mar 2021
How Australia ranks globally on gender diversity in governance
New research sheds light on how Australia is faring, relative to overseas jurisdictions, on elevating women to the boardroom and other senior governance positions.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 09 Mar 2021
HSF to make one-off 5% of salary payment to all staff
Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has made numerous calls on salaries moving forward, including opting to remunerate all staff with an extra 5 per cent of their ...
BIG LAW • Tue, 09 Mar 2021
Ashurst chair steps down
The global chairman of multinational law firm Ashurst is stepping down from the partnership at the end of July to accept a judicial appointment.
BIG LAW • Mon, 08 Mar 2021
Julia Gillard’s advice to young women lawyers
Former prime minister Julia Gillard has offered tips to emerging female legal professionals in what she describes as an “extraordinary time” to be establishing one’s self ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 08 Mar 2021
Why legal ops may be the path you’ve been searching for
Finding a home in legal operations, Naomi Hickey-Humble reflects, was “like Goldilocks finding the comfiest bed”.
BIG LAW • Mon, 08 Mar 2021
This IWD, let’s give our urgent and undivided attention to this issue
International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, and naturally, it also prompts an examination of what still ...
BIG LAW • Sun, 07 Mar 2021
Continuous disclosure changes ‘would shred investor protections’
A member body for litigation funders has said proposed changes to Australia’s “world-leading” continuous disclosure laws would amount to a win for corporate lobbyists at ...
BIG LAW • Sun, 07 Mar 2021
Kate Jenkins to conduct review into parliamentary workplace culture
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins is set to undertake an investigation into the workplaces of parliamentarians and their staff.
POLITICS • Fri, 05 Mar 2021
