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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Are judges succumbing to the ‘seductive power of procrastination’ with writing judgments?

An expert panel of legal professionals discussed court delays and the perceived “culture of procrastination” in the nation’s judiciary at last week’s Australian Bar ...

THE BAR • Sun, 25 Nov 2018

AI to affect graduate and junior lawyer roles the most initially

New research has highlighted the potential for automation to remove grunt work commonly performed by those starting out in their legal careers, which will allow them to ...

BIG LAW • Sun, 25 Nov 2018

Podcast: Why Australia needs a National Integrity Commission

In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus QC, MP and the chair of Transparency International ...

PODCAST • Fri, 23 Nov 2018

UN Declaration of Human Rights ‘worth celebrating and hanging on to’

Despite “clunkiness in language”, and “lots of references to brotherhood”, the United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights is a document that, on its 70th anniversary, ...

POLITICS • Thu, 22 Nov 2018

Why law firms should be politically active on social media

In a conversation with Lawyers Weekly, the managing partner of a Sydney-based law firm explained why it is important for his firm to be active in the social and political ...

SME LAW • Wed, 21 Nov 2018

GetSwift welcomes Federal Court ruling on class actions

Only one class action suit will proceed against logistics software start-up GetSwift, following an appeal to the Federal Court of Australia.

BIG LAW • Wed, 21 Nov 2018

Remove exemptions in Sex Discrimination Act: Australian Lawyers Alliance

National representative body Australian Lawyers Alliance has called for legislative exemptions for discrimination based on sexuality or gender orientation to be removed

POLITICS • Wed, 21 Nov 2018

81% of whistleblower cases end in negative repercussions, research says

New findings from Griffith University and Governance Institute have shown alarming levels of deleterious impacts of whistleblowing upon those who speak out, which the ...

BIG LAW • Tue, 20 Nov 2018

Bravery (at work) and pregnancy go hand-in-hand

I’ve recently just announced that I’m leaving a wonderful firm to join an innovative NewLaw firm. This wouldn’t normally be that newsworthy but at nine months pregnant ...

NEWLAW • Tue, 20 Nov 2018

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