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Corporate Counsel 05 November 2014 ByFelicity NelsonLawyer spends a year on horseback, wins adventurer award

Sydney lawyer Belinda Ritchie has won the Australian Geographic Society’s Young Adventurer of the Year Award.

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SME Law 21 October 2014 ByFelicity NelsonCorrs CEO jumps off a skyscraper

Folklaw has heard a lot of ambitious charity fundraiser ideas in its time, but this is one of the most terrifying.

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SME Law 16 October 2014 ByFelicity NelsonLord lawyer inspires copy cats

With ribbons flowing from his legal robes, a university law student offered tribute to the now-famous ‘Harry Potter’...

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SME Law 09 October 2014 ByFelicity NelsonThink before you tweet

High-flying environmental lawyer Karen Price set up a fake Twitter account to anonymously attack her husband’s...

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SME Law 26 September 2014 ByLeanne MezraniJustice takes time … and money

International Justice Mission (IJM) Australia is calling on lawyers to donate the equivalent of their hourly charge-out...

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SME Law 23 September 2014 ByMalavika SanthebennurLaw students get a taste of the real world

Two Australian law students flew halfway across the world this month to get a taste of the real world of being a lawyer...

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SME Law 12 September 2014 ByMalavika SanthebennurLawyers fess up over a glass of vino

Long hours. Billable hours. Hardly see your families. A troop of creative lawyers are putting on a cabaret show that...

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SME Law 11 September 2014 ByFelicity NelsonLawyers do time in the jailhouse for charity

The cells that once housed Melbourne’s most notorious gangsters and dangerous criminals will accommodate a more...

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SME Law 29 August 2014 ByMalavika SanthebennurHashtag fraud #genY #lawyerwannabe

An over-keen second-year law student didn’t delete what he wrote on Instagram and it almost cost his so-far...

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SME Law 26 August 2014 ByLeanne MezraniIf music be the food of love, play on…

Music has helped a Corrs Chambers Westgarth partner find balance and love outside of the law.

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