Jerome Doraisamy

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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]

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How in-house teams can better prioritise pro bono

While Australia’s largest corporations have well-established social impact policies and programs, new data suggests that law departments must better formalise and ...

CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 24 Sep 2024

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3 in 5 in-house leaders say it would take a cyber incident to improve processes

A new report reveals the extent of law departments whose heads say that meaningful improvements to their business’s focus on data risk management could only occur if an ...

CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 24 Sep 2024

Number of women CEOs has dropped, says report

New findings show that gender equality across top Australian companies has come to a standstill as the path to leadership continues to widen for women rather than narrow

CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 24 Sep 2024

RBA reveals September 2024 cash rate call

Last week, the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a percentage point – the first cut for Americans since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic

POLITICS • Tue, 24 Sep 2024

Right to Disconnect: Feasible or fantasy for lawyers?

The “Right to Disconnect” law throws a curveball at law firms, forcing them to rethink how they operate. But it’s also a huge opportunity, writes Evana Diep.

CORPORATE COUNSEL • Mon, 23 Sep 2024

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Ex-GC says PwC ignored warnings to green light Seymour’s CEO bid

A parliamentary inquiry has heard that Tom Seymour, who was PwC’s head of tax at the time of the firm’s confidentiality breaches, was allowed to run for the top job ...

CORPORATE COUNSEL • Mon, 23 Sep 2024

ACCC sues Woolworths, Coles for alleged misleading discounted prices

The competition regulator is taking Australia’s two biggest supermarkets to court for allegedly breaching the Australian Consumer Law by misleading consumers through ...

CORPORATE COUNSEL • Mon, 23 Sep 2024

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New laws ensure ‘courts aren’t just the realm of a wealthy few’

The A-G, unions, and the legal assistance sector are celebrating the passage of the Costs Protection Bill, which prevents courts from ordering applicants to pay a ...

POLITICS • Sun, 22 Sep 2024

This lawyer’s journey to becoming a BigLaw firm’s first female managing partner

As Carroll & O’Dea celebrates its 125th anniversary, the managing partner reflects on her thirty-year journey with the national law firm and recalls how she became ...

BIG LAW • Sun, 22 Sep 2024

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