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Young lawyers have rejected the proposal to increase university fees for law students, cautioning that the increase would deter diverse students from joining the profession.

Australia needs to remedy its flawed interpretation of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) which is allowing human rights violations to occur, a new research paper has found.

Dentons has welcomed two new partners to the fold, having recruited one and promoted the other.

Information governance could well be the new cyber security, in that it is becoming a hot-button issue for organisations to better manage a bevy of business concerns, including litigation.

New research shows that while legal departments perform well on flexibility and professional development, work is needed in strengthening induction processes, workplace procedures and KPIs.

In the US, it appears that chief legal officers and institutional investors have vastly different views regarding the importance of increasing diversity.

Lawyers in private practice have significantly stepped up their pro bono undertakings in the past year, and with the National Pro Bono Target now open to in-house teams, the onus is on corporate counsel to similarly step up.

The NewLaw market enters its next stage of growth, at a much quicker pace than previously estimated, writes Matthew Kay.

In the latest reply submissions, counsel assisting the Lawyer X inquiry have addressed several “superficial” allegations levelled at them by Nicola Gobbo.

Human beings naturally live their life in the fantasy of tomorrow or someday. Smart people, that are so perceptive in every other realm, spending their lives in lockdown and WFH, just waiting, writes Cullen Haynes.