Data

Data protection risks and other ‘emerging threats’ to legal departments
For legal departments and in-house lawyers, the current market of digital transformation also means new emerging...
10 June 2025
By Lauren Croft
The ‘growth mindset’ in legal professionals working with data
One year after the launch of Legal Data Intelligence (LDI), a recent panel discussed how data and technology are...
16 May 2025
By Lauren Croft
Thousands of court files accessed in ‘significant’ data breach
NSW Police is currently investigating a data breach at a government department, after which 9,000 “sensitive court...
27 March 2025
By David Hollingworth
Brydens Lawyers secures injunction following cyber incident
Sydney firm Brydens Lawyers has obtained a court order banning “dissemination of the impacted confidential...
26 March 2025
By David Hollingworth
Consilio launches legal data management platform, Aurora
Legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services business Consilio has unveiled Aurora – a digital enterprise...
20 March 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
‘I did not send the email’: Slater & Gordon chief people officer responds to all-staff correspondence
The interim chief people officer at Slater & Gordon is taking legal action in the wake of an explosive all-staff...
25 February 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
‘A work of fiction’: Slater & Gordon to investigate ‘disparaging’ firm-wide email
An extraordinary firm-wide email circulated within Slater & Gordon, purportedly sent by its outgoing chief people...
22 February 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
The data and jurisdictional challenges facing legal teams
New research reveals the challenges pertaining to the growth and complexity of data and the navigation of...
04 February 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
Cyber risks to keep growing for small law firms
Having robust cyber security implementation will be a top priority for practice owners in 2025, one tech GM predicts,...
23 January 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
Almost half of all legal practitioners use GenAI day-to-day, new data shows
The majority of the legal profession has reported that their use of GenAI will continue to increase over the next two...
20 November 2024
By Lauren Croft
3 in 5 in-house leaders say it would take a cyber incident to improve processes
A new report reveals the extent of law departments whose heads say that meaningful improvements to their business’s...
24 September 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Aussie firms ‘dangerously underprepared’ for cyber threats
A new report shows that law firms across the country remain critically underprepared and vulnerable to cyber threats...
16 September 2024
By Daniel Croft
The 4 non-negotiables of a resilient, responsible firm in digital Australia
As the nation becomes increasingly digitised, there are fundamental steps that professional services businesses must...
06 September 2024
By Hana Lee and Nick D’Orazio
Information governance ‘an important issue’ in-house
For organisations that hold large amounts of data, information governance should be a high priority. For in-house legal...
30 July 2024
By Lauren Croft
Aussie SMEs struggling, data reveals
The performance of SME firms across the country has been calculated at -2.0 in comparison to GDP for May 2024,...
18 July 2024
By Imogen Wilson
‘It’s not the old boys’ club anymore’: Women outnumber male solicitors in NSW 7th year running
With female practitioners entering the profession at two and a half times the rate of men, the legal industry in...
09 July 2024
By Lauren Croft
What a Biden re-election could mean for data and privacy lawyers Down Under
US President Joe Biden is currently trailing his predecessor, Donald Trump, in general election polls (a gap that may...
02 July 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
What a Trump re-election might mean for Australian data and privacy lawyers
Former US president Donald Trump is a coin-flip away from returning to the White House. If Trump – a convicted felon...
17 June 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
New Digital ID Bill raises serious privacy concerns for Australians
It is incumbent on lawyers to raise alarm bells when they see the legislature passing laws that impact the legal rights...
17 June 2024
By Ian Aldridge and Gianluca Pecora
Judge flags merging Optus data breach proceedings
A judge has suggested a merge of the Optus data breach class action with proceedings launched by the communications...
14 June 2024
By Naomi Neilson