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2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: The shift to lawyers with business minds
With a tight legal market igniting pressures on law firms to live up to the expectations of their clients, lawyers with "entrepreneurial" and better advisory skills became a hot asset in 2009.…
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2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Alternative billing methods gain momentum
With law firms under pressure from clients to better meet their needs, 2009 saw little slowdown on debates over billable hours, while alternative billing arrangements also gathered momentum. …
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Too many city lawyers highlights rural shortage
The shortage of lawyers in rural Australia was further exacerbated in 2009, especially given the fact that redundancies across metropolitan firms highlighted the vast resourcing differences…
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Speaking out about outsourcing
Outsourcing is slowly becoming par for the course for UK law firms, but in 2009, the path in Australia was trod more cautiously - and quietly.
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: The rise and rise of in-house
Once considered the poor cousins of private practitioners, in-house lawyers have been quietly rising up the legal status ranks for some time now, but it was the fallout from the GFC that proved…
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Climate change
Lawyers began the year trying to help clients get their heads around the Government's rather lengthy White Paper Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme: Australia's Low Pollution Future, released in…
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Lawyers Weekly
2009 IN REVIEW Key trends: Mid-tiers make their mark
Every cloud has a silver lining, and though the GFC brought with it a spate of salary freezes, redundancies and general uncertainty, it also provided an opportunity for mid-tier firms to prove…
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Image is everything: In-house legal panels and budgets
What do clients really think of firms' cultures and their lawyers, and which firms do they use? The in-house lawyers that Lawyers Weekly spoke to have a range of firms on their legal panels and…
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Lawyers Weekly
Selena Cartwright: How to transform a firm and stay young
She's only 27, but Selena Cartwright has managed to become the sole principal of her law firm, and bag a coveted finalist spot at the Telstra Business Women's Awards.
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