The Victorian government has rolled out a second round of rounding worth $1.8 million in an attempt to bolster the work being completed by the state’s community legal centres.
An award-winning corporate counsel unit has outlined what it sees as being the key signs that an in-house legal team is operating seamlessly and productively on all fronts.
The idea that federal bodies can oversee or dictate the culture of large organisations is an “illusion” – it has to instead come from senior management, argues one regulatory leader.
The regulatory landscape has undergone a “fundamental change”, and in-house legal teams need to ensure they can proactively address and manage the new mechanisms, says a senior governance executive.
New research from CLOC breaks down all things headcount in-house, including the growing influence of legal operations professionals within corporate legal teams.
National firm Carter Newell Lawyers has welcomed back two lawyers from the in-house market.
Mid-tier firm McCabe Curwood has appointed the former general counsel and company secretary of Allianz Australia for its new specialist corporate regulatory and advisory group.
Partners in law firms may face discrimination in many forms, but they may not always know how best to take action in such circumstances, according to one legal consultant.
Community alarm about Russian-owned FaceApp and its wideranging user agreement should similarly be applied to social media giant Facebook, argues an IP and cyber lawyer.
With strong competition in the Australian marketplace, it has become essential for companies to personalise their services, according to a former managing director of Facebook.
