‘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

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

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

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

Data protection skills ‘key’ for in-house roles

As the demand for data security and privacy expertise continues to evolve, in-house legal teams face new challenges and...

28 May 2024

By Lauren Croft

Striking the right balance when disclosing cyber events

Goldilocks and the cyber risk disclosure porridge: an old children’s tale offers a useful lesson for disclosure of...

14 May 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

How to tackle the data governance information void

When we submit our data to businesses and governments, we enter an unspoken agreement that it is being stored and...

30 April 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Australia v Musk: A fight over censorship with an ‘arrogant billionaire’

A war of words has erupted between Australian politicians and Elon Musk over an eSafety ruling to take down footage of...

24 April 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

SME firms will no longer be exempt from Privacy Act

The federal government has revealed a raft of reforms to the Privacy Act aimed at bringing it into “the digital...

03 October 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Aussie businesses must do better on data, says OAIC

According to Angelene Falk, Australian information and privacy commissioner, Australian companies and organisations...

07 September 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Dentons cuts ties with Chinese firm Dacheng

At a time when King & Wood Mallesons has moved to strengthen its China presence with a new collaboration agreement...

11 August 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Judo Bank impacted by HWL Ebsworth cyber attack

Local neobank Judo Bank has revealed that some of its data have been affected by the cyber attack on BigLaw firm HWL...

04 August 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Qld state government files breached in HWL Ebsworth attack

The Queensland government last week confirmed that files from its systems have been compromised as part of the HWL...

26 July 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

A-G appoints standalone privacy commissioner to bolster national privacy

Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has announced that the government will appoint a standalone privacy commissioner...

03 May 2023

By Jess Feyder

HWL Ebsworth suffers data breach

National firm HWL Ebsworth is the latest BigLaw practice in Australia to have an unauthorised party allegedly access...

02 May 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

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23 February 2018

By Carl Mazzolo