Top emerging risks from Q1 in 2025

An unsettled regulatory and legal environment is chief among the headline concerns for businesses for the first three...

15 April 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Top 6 use cases for GenAI in-house

Contract visibility, the summarisation of legal documents, and contract risk analysis are among the various ways...

25 February 2025

By Grace Robbie

Gartner urges ‘healthy scepticism’ in AI adoption

As generative AI and machine learning technologies become more widely adopted within the legal assurance industry,...

19 November 2024

By Grace Robbie

Top priorities for legal, compliance and privacy leaders in coming year

Enhancing personal influence on company strategy is shaping up as essential in the near future, according to new...

09 July 2024

By Grace Robbie

Why compliance culture ‘isn’t the best way’ to address non-compliance

Compliance leaders often prioritise cultivating an ethical work environment to enhance employee conduct. However, a...

23 April 2024

By Grace Robbie

Return-to-office mandates will see top performers depart

The research supporting the productivity benefits of working from home is, at best, patchy. However, employers should...

07 February 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

2 in 3 legal leaders concerned about a technical skills gap

For legal and compliance leaders, competition around technical skills is set to intensify in 2024, according to new...

06 February 2024

By Lauren Croft

Half of GCs not qualified to be directors

More than half of Australian general counsel, including those on boards, do not have “sufficient” knowledge,...

21 November 2023

By Naomi Neilson

4 issues to prepare for with AI regulation

In the face of proposed frameworks and guidance for artificial intelligence, law department leaders need to address...

04 July 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

6 legal risks around ChatGPT

New research has revealed that legal and compliance leaders should address their organisation’s exposure to a number...

23 May 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Poor legal responses to disruption delay growth and add to exhaustion

Technological research and consulting firm Gartner has highlighted that insufficient legal department responses to...

02 May 2023

By Jess Feyder

9 cyber security trends for 2023

New research from Gartner has revealed the top cyber security trends for 2023, with leaders urged to pivot to a...

18 April 2023

By Lauren Croft

3 trends GCs must address in 2023

This year, Gartner says, in-house legal teams are going to feel the pinch of ongoing disruption, flat budgets, and...

31 January 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

GCs ‘ineffective’ on director management, says poll

A new survey paints a troubling picture of the effectiveness of general counsel in conducting or facilitating board...

27 September 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

4 ways to stay on top of an extremely volatile regulatory landscape

Increasing regulatory scrutiny, heightened geopolitical tensions, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have driven an...

13 September 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Legal function least likely to see increased spend: Survey

A new survey of over 200 chief financial officers and finance leaders shows that, of all business functions, legal...

16 August 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Misconduct reporting lower since COVID-19, new report finds

Only half of Australian employees believe reporting misconduct is the right thing to do, new research by Gartner has...

04 August 2022

By Lauren Croft

Top 8 cyber security predictions for 2022-23

A global technological research and consulting firm has detailed what it sees as being the foremost issues in the cyber...

04 July 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Massive cyber attacks will persist until Russian invasion ends

So long as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, cyber-physical systems will continue to be targeted by malicious...

28 June 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Compliance reporting has dropped 30% since onset of COVID-19, says Gartner

According to Gartner, the rate of compliance reporting has dropped by 30 per cent from its pre-pandemic levels, meaning...

21 June 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy