SME Law

SME Law

Workers’ compensation could shut down businesses without reform

A lack of reforms could cripple about “one in five” businesses across the state if the NSW workers’ compensation...

05 June 2025

By Kace O'Neill

SME Law

Attacks against Adelaide lawyer condemned by legal body

South Australia’s premier legal body has denounced an anonymous and threatening letter that targeted a lawyer and...

04 June 2025

By Naomi Neilson

SME Law

Baybridge adds new senior associate

Sydney-based boutique firm Baybridge Lawyers has strengthened its commercial practice with the appointment of a new...

03 June 2025

By Grace Robbie

SME Law

Stressed before the bench? How hypnotherapy rewires lawyers’ minds for calm, confidence, and courtroom wins

The effects of hypnotherapy can be a game changer for stressed-out lawyers, writes Joel...

02 June 2025

By Joel Fogel

SME Law

Firm to pay $427k to former client for negligence, breach of duty

While many of its former client’s allegations were shut down, a western Sydney firm was still ordered to hand over...

02 June 2025

By Naomi Neilson

SME Law

FCW Lawyers adds principal to lead commercial practice

Workplace relations and commercial firm FCW Lawyers has appointed a new principal to its team to lead its commercial...

02 June 2025

By Grace Robbie

SME Law

Fake solicitor, firm defrauds clients out of $450k

For about four years, an NSW man pretended to be a solicitor so he could defraud his clients out of more than...

30 May 2025

By Naomi Neilson

SME Law

‘Law is a deeply human thing’

As small firms are under pressure to deliver more – without clients losing personal service – AI presents a key...

29 May 2025

By Lauren Croft

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Technology can’t bridge the legal divide in the regions, lawyer warns

While the legal profession has increasingly turned to technology to deliver services, one principal lawyer has raised...

29 May 2025

By Grace Robbie

SME Law

Legal team seeks damages for termination of ‘high-volume’ retainer

Having lost about $125,000 worth of work per month, the legal arm of a debt collection company fought against a...

29 May 2025

By Naomi Neilson