workplace

Who controls the truth in a corporate investigation?
Companies have legitimate reasons to keep legal advice and investigation materials confidential. But when...
04 November 2026
By Emma Musgrave
Sloppy excuses, silent policies: Why lawyers hide disability
Why do capable lawyers hide a disability? Because the processes ask them to disclose first, and the fear of the...
22 October 2026
By Dr Benjamin Koh
To hug or not to hug? Touch, consent, and connection in the legal profession
A client is sitting across the desk crying. Perhaps they have just described years of domestic violence. Perhaps he has...
12 October 2026
By Rebecca Ward, MBA
Traumatic brain injuries: The importance of timely and appropriate treatment and rehabilitation
This week is Brain Injury Awareness Week, and the theme for this year is “Brain injury: many pathways, one...
21 August 2026
By Nickelle Morris
‘Silence is not golden’: Victoria refines NDA legislation
Victorian sexual harassment law is heralding a new age for sexual harassment complainants.
11 August 2026
By Amelia McNamara
Why we need to take a scientific approach to wellbeing and law
The most sustainable shift I see in the firms that get this right isn’t a new app or an extra day of leave. It’s...
30 July 2026
By Danielle Buckley
What impact, if any, will Victoria’s WFH laws have on legal recruitment?
Here, legal recruiters offer insight into whether Jacinta Allan’s proposed codification of work-from-home...
29 July 2026
By Jerome Doraisamy
The workplace reform Indigenous leaders say Australia can no longer delay
The UTS Indigenous research centre has urged the government to introduce stronger workplace anti-racism reforms,...
27 July 2026
By Grace Robbie
Jackie O seeks co-host’s evidence in termination fight
Jacqueline Henderson has fought for the right to use affidavits prepared by her former co-host, Kyle Sandilands, and...
27 July 2026
By Naomi Neilson and Carlos Tse
Deputy president, commissioners added to Industrial Relations Commission
To support new bullying, harassment, and workers’ compensation laws, a non-judicial deputy president and four...
06 July 2026
By Naomi Neilson
Why ‘good culture’ is now a driver of legal excellence, not a trade-off
Where workplace culture was once treated as a secondary concern in legal teams, often sidelined in favour of billable...
18 June 2026
By Grace Robbie
The epidemic hidden in personal injury cases
Workplaces are seeing alarming levels of poor mental health across the country, and need to be made more accountable,...
15 June 2026
By Amelia McNamara
The most prominent workplace challenges in an ever-shifting professional landscape
AI, digitisation, ongoing skills shortages, and employee wellbeing are emerging as the dominant forces reshaping...
02 June 2026
By Matthew Taylor
‘Oi c--t’: Senior lawyer avoids ban after 43 bullying incidents against junior females
A partner who took a junior intern back to his flat after an office Christmas party and made offensive comments about a...
01 June 2026
By Grace Robbie
The need for a trauma-informed approach to domestic violence leave
Workplace policy is key to supporting victim-survivors, according to the head of Kalpaxis Legal.
21 May 2026
By Amelia McNamara
The ‘baseline expectations’ for Gen Z lawyers
A new report sheds light not just on the “transformative” moment that Gen Z has arrived in the workforce, but also...
12 May 2026
By Jerome Doraisamy
Gen Z could be ‘unexpectedly consequential demographic’ for law’s future, LOD report says
A new report from Lawyers On Demand finds that lawyers from Generation Z are going to change the legal profession, if...
05 May 2026
By Jerome Doraisamy
How does workplace policy change for psychosocial injuries?
Last week’s World Safety Day (28 April) has drawn attention to a changing workplace compliance landscape and the gaps...
05 May 2026
By Amelia McNamara
Slater and Gordon widens parental, reproductive leave to all staff
National plaintiff firm Slater and Gordon has broadened parental and reproductive leave to all employees, effective...
28 April 2026
By Jerome Doraisamy
New discrimination benchmark, highest damages awarded by tribunal
The Working Women’s Centre NSW (WWC NSW) has secured a major victory against NSW Health on behalf of Soneva...
22 April 2026
By Amelia McNamara