2020 is almost upon us. Here are the most-downloaded episodes of The Lawyers Weekly Show for the year just passed.
With just days before the start of the New Year, Baker McKenzie has uncovered where APAC business think they’re at when it comes to being prepared for “the next tsunami of change”.
Startup businesses will play a significant role in the evolving corporate marketplace in the future – if they are provided with the right professional support from law firms at the outset, argues one managing partner.
As Westpac holds crisis talks with its largest institutional investors, a law firm announced it will launch an additional class action on behalf of shareholders.
As artificial intelligence and new technology disrupt businesses and standard practices, the Australian Human Rights Commission released a template and a discussion paper to make wide-ranging proposals for safeguarding human rights and ensuring accountability.
Student accommodation business Scape Australia has acquired the $2 billion portfolio of dorms run by Urbanest.
It has been well over a decade since the concept of Alternative Legal Service or “NewLaw” providers emerged to challenge the traditional legal service players, writes Ken Jagger.
Small businesses, such as boutique law firms, make up a huge majority of the professional landscape in Australia, and thus – as a collective – have huge power in reshaping activism in the marketplace, argues one boutique principal.
More than three-quarters of business leaders in Australia describe themselves as being disrupted rather than being disruptors themselves, highlighting how quickly technological change is reshaping the professional landscape.
The Law Council of Australia and Australian Medical Association have called on governments across Australia to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14.
