Jerome Doraisamy

Sydney solicitor convicted of drug offences removed from the roll

In a Court of Appeal case described by a presiding justice as one that “bears the hallmarks of tragedy”, a Sydney-based solicitor has been removed from the roll, in light ...

SME LAW • Wed, 27 Feb 2019

LCA backs Labor on financial rights access to justice pledge

The Law Council of Australia is “very supportive” of the Labor Party’s promise of a $120 million contribution, over four years, from the banking fairness fund to expand ...

POLITICS • Tue, 26 Feb 2019

The 4% rule for moving your firm’s money needle

Your focus should be on intimately knowing your market and your prospects’ deepest desires, pains, fears, hopes, and dreams. You need to know them better than any of your ...

SME LAW • Tue, 26 Feb 2019

What are the top non-legal skills for corporate lawyers?

New research has pinpointed the non-legal skills that law department leaders want from their corporate legal teams, according to new research.

CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 26 Feb 2019

29% of legal departments and CLOs don’t have sustainability plans

According to new research, nearly three in 10 legal departments and chief legal officers don’t have corporate sustainability plans, despite playing an integral role in ...

CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 26 Feb 2019

Structural mediation ‘critical’ for big banks: Slater and Gordon

Introducing formal structural mediation processes, through which independent advice is offered to customers, is how Australia’s big banks can show they have “turned over ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 25 Feb 2019

Is confetti the answer to the modern lawyer’s problems?

Confetti and law are perhaps not words that often appear in a sentence together, but I am starting to wonder if perhaps they should a whole lot more, writes Brisbane ...

SME LAW • Mon, 25 Feb 2019

4 appointed as judges to Federal Court

Four barristers have been elevated to the bench of the Federal Court of Australia.

THE BAR • Mon, 25 Feb 2019

Law professor appointed as mental health commissioner

The Andrews government in Victoria has announced a four-pronged panel of commissioners for its state-based Royal Commission into Mental Health, with “an internationally ...

POLITICS • Mon, 25 Feb 2019