Smokeball

AI information will ‘start to narrow down’ in 2025

Although AI can still “make mistakes” and have drawbacks, it’s likely to continue to massively change and impact...

06 January 2025

By Lauren Croft

Australia is still in an ‘early adopter phase’ of AI implementation

Although the legal profession in Australia has started implementing AI into practice more, this legal tech executive...

31 December 2024

By Lauren Croft

The importance of workplace safety plans in family law

As vicarious traumatic stress within the profession increases, family law firms have been urged to implement a...

20 July 2023

By Lauren Croft

FCFCOA case management pathways outlined

With family violence at an all-time high, this family lawyer outlines the case management processes of the Federal...

22 May 2023

By Lauren Croft

Diversity in the profession ‘can create better laws’ and ‘better lawyers’

While diversity and inclusion have become headline issues within the legal profession, they should remain to be seen as...

13 April 2023

By Lauren Croft

Smaller firms are ‘where real innovation is happening’

As COVID-19 has led to the rapid adoption of technology and disruptive practice methods among law firms across the...

24 February 2023

By Lauren Croft

Small firms still relying on referrals, survey says

The vast majority of smaller law firms across the country still rely heavily on referrals and word of mouth, new...

30 November 2022

By Lauren Croft

Only 6% of small firms focused on staff attraction moving forward

Few SME firms are concerned about drawing staff back into the office and are prioritising growing their client base and...

20 October 2022

By Lauren Croft

Most small firms now work from home, most of the week

New research reveals that more than half of SME law firms are operating from home at least half the week, with one in...

05 October 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

How family lawyers view FCFCOA processes

Findings from Smokeball denote a certain dissatisfaction with how matters are proceeding under the merged Federal...

09 May 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Implications of the FCFCOA on the family law space

Whilst there are still ways to go before improvements in the newly established Federal Circuit and Family Court of...

23 March 2022

By Lauren Croft

How many firms use tech for billing?

New research offers insights into the extent to which boutique law firms utilise tech platforms to manage their billing...

28 October 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy

Are small firms too willing to write off fees?

New research reveals troubling shortcomings in the billing practices of small law firms across Australia. Firms have,...

21 October 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy

Smokeball acquires FamilyProperty

Legal practice management software business Smokeball has moved to streamline its end-to-end experience for family law...

12 October 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy

Why ‘developing a deliberate culture’ is so worthwhile

There is an inextricable nexus, Jane Oxley believes, between optimal workplace culture and business

02 September 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy