The key to balancing wellness and a small business
Lawyers Weekly spoke with Sinclair + May director Jessica Kerr about how to manage the establishment of a boutique firm while also ensuring that you’re on top of your ...
SME LAW • Thu, 26 Jul 2018
Sexual consent must be ‘actively communicated’: CLC NSW
Community Legal Centres NSW has argued that, unless consent is explicitly given, there should be no assumption of its presence.
BIG LAW • Wed, 25 Jul 2018
Commonwealth Finance Department advised on IT procurement
The Commonwealth Department of Finance has been advised on its whole-of-government procurement of a new provide for its content management system, GovCMS.
BIG LAW • Wed, 25 Jul 2018
Lawyer convicted of fraud struck off roll
A sole practitioner, who late last year was convicted of one count of fraud and given a 12-month suspended jail sentence, has now been removed from the Roll of Solicitors ...
SME LAW • Wed, 25 Jul 2018
Fixed-pricing better for clients and competition
A Townsville-based firm, that moved away from time-based billing seven years ago, has argued for the introduction of fixed-pricing across the boards so as to better ...
SME LAW • Tue, 24 Jul 2018
Visual arts, storytelling to help communicate legal advice for remote communities
A new project, funded by the federal government, will communicate legal advice to people in remote communities using visual arts and storytelling.
POLITICS • Tue, 24 Jul 2018
Previous legal experience helps in-house earning capacity
Outside legal experience has a positive effect on compensation levels for lawyers entering corporate counsel roles, according to new research.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 24 Jul 2018
AMP: Clayton Utz report has been mischaracterised
Embattled financial services company AMP has hit back at implications that the report conducted for it by national firm Clayton Utz was anything but independent, ...
BIG LAW • Tue, 24 Jul 2018
Don’t criminalise ‘honest belief’ in sexual consent: NSW Bar
The NSW Bar Association has argued, in a submission to the state government, that a person should not be convicted of sexual assault if he or she honestly believes there ...
POLITICS • Mon, 23 Jul 2018
