24 April 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

A refresher on the laws and processes for Australia’s federal elections

With voting now underway for the 2025 federal election, we take a look at the legislative and constitutional...

33 MINUTE LISTEN

17 April 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

When making career decisions, be open-minded while following your ‘North Star’

While one cannot control the external environment, one can control the progress and direction of their legal career. As...

23 MINUTE LISTEN

15 April 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

The intersection between AI and cyber security

The complexity of cyber security implications for businesses, and therefore their lawyers, “has exploded” in the...

27 MINUTE LISTEN

07 April 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Meet the young lawyer taking on Albo in Grayndler

Motivated by issues such as the ongoing housing crisis and workers’ rights, lawyer turned aspiring MP Hannah Thomas...

23 MINUTE LISTEN

04 April 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Trauma theory and overcoming ‘masculinist’ tendencies in law

For Dr Colin James, the legal profession’s relative reluctance to appreciate the impact of trauma in workplaces and...

30 MINUTE LISTEN

02 April 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

How to work better with expert witnesses

Having given evidence as an expert witness dozens of times nationally and regionally, Owain Stone understands not only...

24 MINUTE LISTEN

28 March 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Is the ban on non-competes good policy?

In Labor’s pre-election budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a ban on non-compete clauses for workers earning...

33 MINUTE LISTEN

24 March 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Meet the plaintiff lawyer running for Labor in Capricornia

In this second episode featuring lawyers turned political candidates, we speak to the asbestos, dust and occupational...

25 MINUTE LISTEN

21 March 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Building deeper, richer relationships with clients

Given the breadth of change to the nature and delivery of legal services in recent years, a lawyer’s connection to...

26 MINUTE LISTEN

17 March 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Meet the KWM lawyer running for the LNP in McPherson

In this first episode in a series of conversations with lawyers turned political candidates, ahead of the 2025 federal...

27 MINUTE LISTEN

14 March 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Improving remuneration and incentive strategies

Remuneration and incentives have always been a Pandora’s box for law firm leaders. In the post-pandemic climate,...

32 MINUTE LISTEN

07 March 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

What WA lawyers want from their next state government

Tomorrow (Saturday, 8 March), Western Australians will head to the polls to elect their next government, in what is...

25 MINUTE LISTEN

05 March 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

What we’ve learnt about firms’ gender pay gaps this week

Earlier this week, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) released its second annual breakdown of gender pay gaps...

23 MINUTE LISTEN

27 February 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Key steps to improve lawyer-client communication

Here, Jahan Kalantar – “the TikTok lawyer” – outlines practical steps and solutions to better communicate with...

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21 February 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

‘Corporate cancel culture’ and employee freedoms

In recent years, there have been numerous examples of workers – such as rugby star Israel Folau – having suffered...

33 MINUTE LISTEN

14 February 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

2 recent High Court judgments and the implications for historical sexual abuse matters

Recently, the High Court has recognised that an “impoverishment of evidence” will not, in and of itself, give rise...

25 MINUTE LISTEN

11 February 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Make a ‘safe place’ for clients by communicating clearly

Experience has taught Jahan Kalantar that lawyers’ capacity to support and better advocate for clients is...

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07 February 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Talking like a real human to clients

Lawyers, Jahan Kalantar says, are a “conduit for complicated problems”. To this end, practitioners must be better...

39 MINUTE LISTEN

05 February 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

Setting proper boundaries and being ‘really transparent’ with clients

This managing partner says that when dealing with clients in criminal law, lawyers need to be able to set proper...

25 MINUTE LISTEN

04 February 2025

The Lawyers Weekly Show

The Corporate Counsel Show: How workplaces can better support parents of neurodiverse children

Here, a senior corporate lawyer reflects on the three-year career break she took to be a full-time carer and what...

28 MINUTE LISTEN