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]
Insurance law and ‘war risk’ now inextricably linked
The idea that insurance law needs to be “geopolitics-aware” is not new, but the flow-on consequences of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz mean that such thinking “no ...
POLITICS • Wed, 06 May 2026
Are lawyers still in a favourable position to buy property?
Amid high inflation, another interest rate hike, and a Middle East conflict that shows no signs of abating, legal practitioners nationwide will be wondering whether their ...
POLITICS • Wed, 06 May 2026
Gen Z could be ‘unexpectedly consequential demographic’ for law’s future, LOD report says
A new report from Lawyers On Demand finds that lawyers from Generation Z are going to change the legal profession, if the leaders of today “have the courage and vision” ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 05 May 2026
RBA makes May 2026 cash rate call
Find out, in this special announcement from Legal Home Loans, if the Reserve Bank has again decided to raise interest rates, following last week’s shock inflation figures
POLITICS • Tue, 05 May 2026
‘Justice is structural, not just legal’
The legal system’s failures on domestic and family violence are “not inevitable”, one lawyer-turned-NFP co-founder says – rather, they are a choice being made “until ...
SME LAW • Thu, 30 Apr 2026
Virginia Bell releases interim report for anti-Semitism royal commission
Former High Court judge, the Honourable Virginia Bell, has made 14 recommendations (five of which remain confidential) to the federal government in the interim report ...
POLITICS • Thu, 30 Apr 2026
Consilio’s Aurora Legal AI suite launches Down Under
The Aurora Legal AI suite has been introduced to Australia, as Consilio moves to provide Australian law firms and in-house legal teams with unprecedented control over ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 28 Apr 2026
Slater and Gordon widens parental, reproductive leave to all staff
National plaintiff firm Slater and Gordon has broadened parental and reproductive leave to all employees, effective FY2026–27.
BIG LAW • Mon, 27 Apr 2026
Macpherson Kelley adds wills and estates principal
National law firm Macpherson Kelley has appointed a new principal for its wills and estates team in Adelaide.
BIG LAW • Thu, 23 Apr 2026