There are now more female lawyers than male lawyers practising in Australia¹, so it is crucial that law firms adopt a proactive approach to gender diversity. It is well understood…
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Mark Henaghan – The Legal Luminaries Project
This is the third in a series of in-depth interviews with our esteemed legal leaders; our legal luminaries. Professor Mark Henaghan looks back over his life in the law, speaking candidly about…
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3 Ways Self-Service Contracts Can Benefit Your Organisation
Self-service contract creation uses the wonders of document automation to reimagine the contract creation process. Forget bottlenecks within your legal department – self-service contract creation means anyone in your organisation…
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Why Upskilling Junior Lawyers Should be Your Firm’s Priority
The law firm model is broken. Industry commentators and those who work within it are increasingly pointing out how the traditional pyramid law firm model (a select number of senior…
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Searching for Search Engine Liability: High Court Grants Special Leave in Trkulja v Google Inc [2017] HCATrans 129
The liability in defamation of search engines for search engine results or autocomplete predictions has been re-enlivened, with the High Court agreeing on 16 June 2017 to grant the plaintiff…
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Freelance lawyering?
A career in the legal sector has traditionally offered only two distinct paths: private practice or in-house counsel. In recent years, however, lawyers have forged a new path: freelancing. These…
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Business Development: How to Increase Results for Your Law Firm
Many Australian law firms are currently failing to maximise their business development opportunities. Research shows 69 per cent of law firms with an ‘under developed’ marketing and business development function…
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Zero-rated land sales
Article author Grant Pearson is the Customs Appeal Authority for New Zealand, a member of the recently released second edition of GST in New Zealand author team, and practises as a barrister.…
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Unit Titles: Are we safe yet?
The Unit Titles Act 2010 was an attempt to address the gaps and inadequacies of the Unit Titles Act 1972. While the changes it brought were welcome, it soon became…
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Understanding therapeutic jurisprudence
Therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) derives from the early work of two North American law professors (Professors David Wexler and Bruce Winick) who were concerned to explore the intersection between the law…
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