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Law firms of all stripes are currently considering how best to adapt their WFH and remote working accommodations to suit the “new normal”. In-house legal teams need to do the same.

Given the risk and occurrence of fraudulent and corrupt activities in the wake of COVID-19, the legal department must work with a company’s forensic team to safeguard the business.

Legal departments that can achieve more work in-house and better technology will be more likely to cut down on e-discovery spend.

An overwhelming majority of S&P 500 companies have had to revise or completely withdraw their earnings guidance as a result of coronavirus.

The Queensland Law Society welcomed the state government’s five-year commitment to provide $119 million to community legal centres.

Drug trafficker and Tony Mokbel associate Zlate Cvetanovski will leave incarceration after the Court of Appeal conceded Nicola Gobbo interfered with his prosecution.

Australia’s BigLaw firms are welcoming staff back into their West Australian offices, albeit in staggered and conservative fashions.

Australia’s class action space is among the best in the world and Parliament should recognise this, say plaintiff firms.

Bolstering one’s ability to acclimate to the unprecedented circumstances of a global pandemic will help lawyers better serve clients, at a time when such service is most needed.

Australia has made tremendous progress in limiting the effects of COVID-19 and all indications are that we are on the path to socio-economic recovery. For many businesses, this means a return to work for employees who have been working from home.