Jerome Doraisamy is the managing editor of professional services (including Lawyers Weekly, HR Leader, Accountants Daily, and Accounting Times). 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]
8 tips to succeed in law firm clerkship and grad applications
While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are practical steps that every law student can take to improve their chances of progressing through the application ...
CAREERS • Thu, 26 Mar 2026
If Australia rations fuel, will lawyers have to WFH again?
The US–Israel attack on Iran and the subsequent regional and geopolitical conflict that has ensued have disrupted approximately 20 per cent of the global supply of oil ...
POLITICS • Wed, 25 Mar 2026
What Australia’s disappearing middle means for the legal market
The mid-market in legal services is being compressed from above by premium firms protecting complexity, and from below by scale-first firms finally having the technology ...
BIG LAW • Wed, 25 Mar 2026
Where Barry Nilsson wants to be in 3 years
In conversation with Lawyers Weekly, the CEO of national law firm Barry Nilsson has outlined the firm’s growth strategy towards the end of the decade and explained that ...
BIG LAW • Wed, 25 Mar 2026
Australian law firms lag global counterparts in AI uptake
Trust in artificial intelligence in Australian legal circles is the lowest anywhere in the world, new research from LEAP Legal Software has found.
SME LAW • Tue, 24 Mar 2026
The great white shark dilemma: Why human connection is law’s new competitive edge
The profession can choose to be the stranded great white shark, or it can evolve into the emotionally intelligent, high-level advisers that this rapidly changing world is ...
SME LAW • Tue, 24 Mar 2026
Workplace surveillance: A thing of the past? Not so fast
The future of workplace surveillance is found in balancing organisational needs with employee wellbeing, transparency, and reasonableness, writes Hilary Searing.
BIG LAW • Sun, 22 Mar 2026
Former Clifford Chance global CFO to join Lawyers Weekly UK Study Tour
The man who ran the finances of one of the world’s most profitable law firms through seven years of transformation will speak directly with Australian senior partners at ...
BIG LAW • Thu, 19 Mar 2026
Celebrate the progress, but not at the expense of the harder question
The profession has spent two decades improving the pathway to partnership. The next question is whether we can expand the reform agenda to consider equality as a core ...
BIG LAW • Tue, 17 Mar 2026