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]
Is sport a law unto itself?
Sport plays an important and powerful role in Australian culture, including shaping attitudes towards gender, bodies, roles and stereotypes, and it can be dangerous if ...
POLITICS • Thu, 25 Oct 2018
Increasing number of ASX200 CEOs have law backgrounds
New data has shown that the number of chief executive officers of ASX200 companies boasting law degrees has reached 15 per cent.
BIG LAW • Wed, 24 Oct 2018
Colin Biggers & Paisley appoints new special counsel
National firm Colin Biggers & Paisley has welcomed a new special counsel for its insurance team.
SME LAW • Wed, 24 Oct 2018
Four criminal lawyers arrested and charged with numerous offences
The Crime and Corruption Commission in Queensland has arrested and laid charges against six men, comprising four lawyers and two former clients, for alleged fraud and ...
POLITICS • Wed, 24 Oct 2018
Lawyers react to National Apology
Legal organisations and lawyers around the country have reacted to the National Apology delivered by Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Parliament on Monday to survivors of ...
POLITICS • Tue, 23 Oct 2018
Who is the primary driver of change in legal departments?
New research shows that a vast majority of law department operations professionals see themselves as the primary driver of change in the legal sector.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 23 Oct 2018
LDO professionals saving less than a decade ago
Today’s law department operations professionals report that they are actually delivering less savings than from a decade ago, according to new research.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 23 Oct 2018
Ashurst to make partnership one-third female by 2022
Global law firm Ashurst has set new diversity and inclusion targets to be achieved within the next three financial years, including that women will make up 33 per cent of ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 22 Oct 2018
Law firms must ‘continuously try’ to be good places for people to work
Two senior partners of a global firm have argued that success is not sustainable if law firms do not create environments where people want to come to work every day.
BIG LAW • Mon, 22 Oct 2018