Features
‘The Truth Hurts’: The fault lines in the criminal justice system
From battered victims, disadvantaged clients and even a serial killer, barrister Andrew Boe has taken cues from his own...
18 August 2020
By Naomi Neilson
Supporting vulnerable people during COVID-19
Coronavirus has put pressure on all aspects of Australian society, and Wotton + Kearney – through its Community...
13 August 2020
By Wotton + Kearney
How a Biden presidency could impact Australian lawyers
A victory by former vice-president Joe Biden in the looming presidential election could result in a vastly different...
06 August 2020
By Jerome Doraisamy
The myriad challenges facing First Nations lawyers
Racism remains all too common a feature of the legal vocational journey, say three senior Indigenous legal...
30 July 2020
By Jerome Doraisamy
Ensuring purpose as a practitioner
Law is, perhaps more so than most professions, a calling. Its myriad demands on daily life give rise to one more duty:...
14 July 2020
By Jerome Doraisamy
News, awards and features: Top 10 things young lawyers should know today
Lawyers Weekly’s Protégé takes a look at the last fortnight’s news that young lawyers, from in training to recent...
14 July 2020
By Naomi Neilson
Becoming an ‘empire builder’ post-pandemic
Life after coronavirus is coming, and for boutique lawyers who know what they’re doing, business success is on the...
09 July 2020
By Jerome Doraisamy
‘Nightmare of serious errors’: How Australia’s miscarriages of justice and wrongful convictions are crippling the criminal justice system
From taking the fall for a dingo, simply being the wrong person in the wrong place, or just hopping into bed with a...
06 July 2020
By Naomi Neilson
How COVID-19 has changed #auslaw
The Australian legal marketplace will never be the same again once the age of coronavirus has passed. This is,...
03 July 2020
By Jerome Doraisamy
The rise and rise of the in-house lawyer
As the marketplace looks toward a post-pandemic world, the inextricable influence corporate counsel have over a...
30 June 2020
By Jerome Doraisamy