Jerome Doraisamy

How practising Brazilian Jui Jitsu has taught me to become a better lawyer

Sport, hobbies and other interests are important for a balanced life and it is common for lawyers to have interests outside of the law. For me, it has been Brazilian Jui ...

SME LAW • Mon, 21 Jan 2019

Former McInnes Wilson lawyer struck off for arranging fraudulent payments to his wife

A medical negligence litigator has been removed from the roll of practitioners in Queensland on three charges of professional misconduct involving fraudulent payments, ...

SME LAW • Mon, 21 Jan 2019

Privilege, policing and the pub test: Questions to be answered from the Lawyer X scandal

While the Royal Commission into Management of Informants will be held in and limited to Victoria, its ramifications for both justice and law enforcement will go further ...

NEWLAW • Mon, 21 Jan 2019

Podcast: Office romances and the legal profession

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy speaks with the principal of Melbourne-based mid-tier firm McDonald Murholme, Andrew Jewell.

PODCAST • Fri, 18 Jan 2019

VIC lawyer has practising certificate cancelled for 2 years

A Victorian-based solicitor with a “long and deplorable history of previous misconduct” has been disqualified from obtaining a practising certificate for a period of two ...

SME LAW • Thu, 17 Jan 2019

Queensland solicitors are up to the challenges of 2019: QLS

The manner in which the legal profession deals with challenges in the new year – including the “insidious problems” of bullying and sexual harassment – will be almost as ...

POLITICS • Thu, 17 Jan 2019

Construction, property, commercial lawyers to be in high demand in 2019

Demand is set to remain high across all tiers within law firms, but hotspots of skills in demand are emerging, in light of environmental and political factors, according ...

BIG LAW • Thu, 17 Jan 2019

Looming challenges for sole practitioners in 2019

There are three major challenges emerging for those in the boutique space as the new year unfolds, argues an award-winning sole practitioner.

SME LAW • Thu, 17 Jan 2019

Constitutional requirement to consider advice of Indigenous leaders required

Parliament should be constitutionally required to at least consider the advice of a proposed advisory group of Aboriginal leaders, even if it is not obliged to follow it, ...

POLITICS • Wed, 16 Jan 2019