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 success.
02 September 2021
By Jerome Doraisamy