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]
How many in-house teams are attempting to influence law firm processes?
New research has found in the last year legal departments have increasingly tried to have a say in their panel of law firms’ methods and practices, as a means to ensure ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 03 Sep 2019
‘Slowing down can be helpful’ for in-house lawyers
Life as a corporate counsel can be demanding – particularly in an evolving marketplace and new technological landscape – and thus better controlling the pace of the ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 03 Sep 2019
‘We are in the age of the regulator’
Implementing regulatory reform is on top of the agenda for almost all professionals in the governance space, according to new research.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 03 Sep 2019
Emerging commercial fields an opportunity for junior legal counsel
It is challenging to ingratiate one’s self into a developing market, but it may also provide an ideal chance for a young in-house lawyer to step up, argues one general ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 03 Sep 2019
Barristers must ‘embrace digital’ or be left behind
As a whole, the legal profession is running the risk of being left behind by technological advancements, and barristers – especially senior ones – must do more to adapt, ...
THE BAR • Mon, 02 Sep 2019
Leo Cussen opens new premises
Legal education provider Leo Cussen Centre for Law has formally opened the doors of its new premises in Melbourne’s CBD, with the assistance of the Governor of Victoria
BIG LAW • Mon, 02 Sep 2019
Attacks on Victorian magistrate are ‘misconceived and ill-informed’
Political posturing should never be able to diminish the independence of the judiciary and the guiding principles of justice and fairness, argues one member association
THE BAR • Mon, 02 Sep 2019
Lawyers express concern with draft Religious Freedom Bill
Following the release of proposed legislation from Attorney-General Christian Porter, lawyers and legal advocacy groups have weighed in on the draft Religious Freedom ...
POLITICS • Sun, 01 Sep 2019
What’s the deal with prorogation?
The political and legal plot has thickened in the UK in the past week, writes Emma Guest.
SME LAW • Sun, 01 Sep 2019