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 Lauren Croft

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 Jerome Doraisamy

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 Jerome Doraisamy

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 Jerome Doraisamy

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 Jerome Doraisamy

‘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 Jerome Doraisamy

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

The dangers of storing unnecessary data

Here, Lawyers Weekly’s sister brand, Cyber Daily, sits down with Brenton Steenkamp, cyber partner at Clayton Utz, to...

03 June 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

An insight into life for vacation ownership legal teams

Here, the head of international operations for Travel + Leisure Co unpacks what daily practice looks like for lawyers...

28 May 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy