Opinion

Multiple or concurrent class actions are undesirable as they increase costs. Class actions were designed to allow for the sharing of costs and economi...

With the Australian government recently announcing its support for a Modern Slavery Act, Australian businesses have to put modern slavery firmly on th...

Without clients, a law firm would cease to exist. And one of the biggest mistakes firms make is to focus only on its existing clients to the detriment...

There should be an annual Golden Pinocchio award. Probably every reader of this piece could name a candidate for the award of the year’s greatest l...

Elder financial abuse – where a person takes advantage of an elder person’s financial position for their own benefit – has thankfully become a l...

The insurance industry in Queensland is running another of its scaremongering campaigns, aimed at reducing payouts to motor vehicle injury victims –...

We all succumb to the death of email at some point, writes Anthony Hersch. ...

If your law firm employs or engages marketing practitioners, chances are it’s doing content marketing, writes Jacqueline Burns. ...

Effective mentoring, in a professional services environment, must do two things: provide scope for self-directed learning and development, and do so i...

In April 2017, a team of legal professionals from Australia, Japan and Myanmar joined forces under the Juris Pilot, an initiative of LexisNexis, to wo...

Do you know the cost of obtaining a new client? asks Jeremy Streten. ...

The Commonwealth government’s much maligned Innovation Strategy looks to have kicked a goal with the release of government response to the Productiv...

When we think of commodities, we think of raw materials and agricultural products – copper, coal, coffee, writes Michael Bishop. ...

The Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards 2017 will be held this Friday, and it’s exciting to have so many of the industry’s leading voices come to...

As my three-year term as both CEO of the Legal Services Council and as Commissioner for Uniform Legal Services Regulation comes to a close, I would li...

In recent times, the way lawyers gather and analyse evidence for use in matters and cases has changed significantly, write Michael do Rozario and Rosh...

The Australian Pro Bono Centre has been meeting with in-house lawyers at a number of large corporations in Australia in recent weeks to support the de...