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A lawyer’s mecca
The perception of a lawyer is often of someone very focused on fees, but since time immemorial, lawyers have been professionally obliged to support the disadvantaged. Stephanie Quine investigates the frustrations and rich rewards of lawyers working pro bono
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Stephanie Quine
A devotion to justice
The 2012 president of the NSW Law Society has been on more law committees than he can even remember. He talks to Stephanie Quine about striving for justice and a more noble profession.
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Briana Everett
The Mongolian movement
To the untrained eye, a 20-year-old democracy with a third of its population living in poverty would appear to offer very little to the Western world. But as Briana Everett discovers, Mongolia is a mineral-rich land of opportunity for Australian firms
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Stephanie Quine
The extra mile
Postgraduate degrees are multiplying and mutating into niche streams in response to market demand for specialised and transnational practitioners, but is experience in the job just as good? Stephanie Quine reports
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Briana Everett
Chasing China
Australian law firms have been eyeing China for years, but the race to grab hold of the opportunities on offer has well and truly ramped up in 2012. Briana Everett talks to Australian firms in China about their growth strategies and the obstacles involved
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Justin Whealing
Divided we stand
The national legal profession reform process is still working to a timetable of implementation by July 2013 despite half of Australia’s eight states and territories refusing to sign up to the scheme. Justin Whealing reports
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Stephanie Quine
The middleman
Growing up in Narrabri, in north-western NSW, Mick Sheils used an old army coat as a dooner and enjoyed a simple life. He talks to Stephanie Quine about his journey to becoming the NSW Industrial Relations Commissioner and his passion for resolving disputes.
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Claire Chaffey
In pursuit of the androgynous law firm
When it comes to achieving diversity in law firms, a lawyer’s gender should be irrelevant._x000D_
However, as Claire Chaffey discovers, actions speak louder than words.
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Briana Everett
Latin loving
Home to some of the world’s key emerging markets, Latin America presents a growing area of opportunity for foreign fi rms looking beyond China. Briana Everett reports
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