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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
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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
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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
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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
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