Lessons from the cyber attacks on Brydens Lawyers, Aussie super funds

For law firms and in-house teams alike, there are key takeaways from recent high-profile cyber security incidents...

11 April 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Legal lessons from ‘Bazball’, Ashes cricket and the Matildas’ World Cup run

BigLaw partner Peter Hunt, an avid sports fan, says there is much that legal professionals can learn from the new-age...

16 August 2023

By Robyn Tongol

Legal implications and lessons from Network Ten v van Onselen

Last month, NSW Supreme Court Justice David Hammerschlag found that Peter van Onselen breached his redundancy contract...

03 August 2023

By Lauren Croft

Lessons from 40+ years in practice

Prominent personal injury lawyer Henry Carus has been in practice for four decades. While it has not always been an...

14 July 2023

By Robyn Tongol

Lessons for criminal lawyers from Reeves v NSW

A judge recently ruled that a man held in an interview room by NSW Police despite repeatedly telling them he did not...

19 June 2023

By Lauren Croft

Lessons for Australia in implementing ‘right to disconnect’ laws

One silk discusses how countries around the world have implemented the right to disconnect legislation and shared...

17 May 2023

By Jess Feyder

Lessons for firms from IPH’s cyber breach

ASX-listed legal services group IPH noted last week that it might be facing millions in costs as a result of its recent...

24 April 2023

By Lauren Croft

Lessons from the ‘mercy killing’ of the AAT

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is set to be abolished. While such bodies are “critical” to Australia’s legal...

06 April 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Lessons from 10 years as a boutique

One boutique firm partner shares insights gleaned from the decade the firm has been...

09 February 2023

By Jess Feyder

Biggest lessons for GCs from 2022

From activism to strategic thinking, increased cost discipline to people management, the past year offered bountiful...

17 January 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

The Corporate Counsel Show: Lessons for legal counsel from the Optus cyber attack

Corporate counsel have, for some time, been cognisant of the need to be more adept with cyber security. The recent...

19 October 2022

By Robyn Tongol

Key corporate lessons from Optus breach

The Optus data breach will be the pivotal moment that leads to privacy law regulation in Australia, argues one cyber...

11 October 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Lessons from the monarchy about successful succession planning

Whilst quietly acknowledging HRH Queen Elizabeth II’s recent passing and her remarkable life well-lived, the end of...

23 September 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

‘You start to see the bigger firms in a very different light’

Moving from BigLaw to start his own boutique firm has taught this principal solicitor a lot about what he doesn’t...

21 July 2022

By Lauren Croft

Protégé: Money lessons I wish I’d learned in law school

Better managing one’s money isn’t just good practice for general life, says law-graduate-turned-financial-educator...

20 July 2022

By Robyn Tongol

What boutiques can learn from BigLaw

Whilst many boutique firm owners who leave BigLaw aim to create different working environments, there are a number of...

14 July 2022

By Lauren Croft

Misconceptions and lessons about workplace vaccine mandates

In determining whether or not to implement mandates for COVID-19 vaccinations, legal employers should first be aware of...

03 September 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy

Lessons from trauma about the importance of legal service

International humanitarian lawyer and former war crimes prosecutor Rabia Siddique believes that anyone has the ability...

09 April 2020

By Tasha Levy