Jerome Doraisamy

What is the role of legal departments post-banking royal commission?

Governance Institute has provided a submission on the issues raised by the Interim Report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and ...

CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 30 Oct 2018

Law, the digital age and change to come

In-house counsel need to determine what they will do differently and better than the generation that came before, asks Optus Legal general counsel Shanti Berggren.

CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 30 Oct 2018

4 families medically evacuated from offshore detention following injunctions

Personal injury firm Adviceline Injury Lawyers has assisted in bringing about the urgent medical evacuation of four families, including seven children, from Nauru ...

SME LAW • Mon, 29 Oct 2018

Bar Association responds to ‘unsophisticated’ analysis of judicial productivity

The Australian Bar Association has hit back at “recent attacks” on judges presiding in the nation’s Federal Court, which it says is “flawed” and portrays the process of ...

THE BAR • Mon, 29 Oct 2018

Breaking free of the law school bubble

Law school is like a bubble because within its domed walls, some of the state’s top 2 per cent of students suddenly find their once-easily attained top grades not so easy ...

CAREERS • Mon, 29 Oct 2018

100 years of women in law: Lingering issues and upcoming opportunities

Reflecting on the 100th anniversary of Australian women in our legal profession, two practitioners spoke with Lawyers Weekly about how far we’ve come, what more needs to ...

BIG LAW • Sun, 28 Oct 2018

Bystander policies and their importance in combating sexual harassment and bullying

Eliminating poor behaviour in the workplace is everybody’s responsibility, and the onus cannot simply fall to the victim of said behaviour, say two presidents of women ...

BIG LAW • Sun, 28 Oct 2018

Podcast: Pat McCabe’s journey from the rugby field to a law firm

On this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by MinterEllison lawyer and former Wallaby Pat McCabe.

PODCAST • Fri, 26 Oct 2018

KWM-WorkSafe enquiries ‘the beginning of the end of the billable hour’

The Australian legal profession will look back on the Improvement Notice issued to King & Wood Mallesons by WorkSafe Victoria as the “death knell” of the billable ...

BIG LAW • Thu, 25 Oct 2018