Law schools can do more to promote in-house careers
Law students often don’t know or even forget that companies hire lawyers in-house and, thus, are not front of mind when considering job options, says a university-based ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 22 Jan 2019
In-house demand set to grow in 2019
New research shows that, with Australian companies set to reduce rates of outsourcing of legal work as well as a need for relevant industry experience, there will be a ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 22 Jan 2019
Practising certificate of Qld lawyer cancelled immediately
A Queensland-based sole practitioner has had his practising certificate cancelled with immediate effect by the state’s Civil and Administrative Tribunal after being found ...
SME LAW • Mon, 21 Jan 2019
Migration amendments recommended for passage
The Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has recommended proposed amendments to the Migration Act – which purport to strengthen character tests ...
POLITICS • Mon, 21 Jan 2019
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
