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A new Law Council report maps where Australian lawyers can practise across six Southeast Asian jurisdictions — and what is stopping them from doing more. Timely reading as the Government's FTA review process moves forward.
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Eighty-six recommendations for the most significant overhaul of the native title future acts regime in almost fifty years were tabled in Parliament on 24 June. The ALRC's assessment of the existing framework is not diplomatic.
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Four practice notes became one on 1 July, governing more than 3,000 pending cases across the Court's personal injuries, institutional liability, dust diseases and civil circuit lists. Key changes to document service, expert evidence, and interlocutory procedure apply immediately to new proceedings.
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A five-decade career, a sole practice, a QLS presidency won by handwritten letters — and a practising certificate that lapsed quietly this week. Jeff Mann's parting message to the profession is worth reading.
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Law firms have long measured success through billings, utilisation and financial performance. Increasingly, however, questions are being asked about how those results are achieved. As psychosocial hazards become a core workplace health and safety issue, firms are facing growing pressure to assess leadership not only by commercial outcomes, but by their impact on wellbeing, workplace culture and psychosocial safety. Is it time to measure what really matters?
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The professional advice to "network" arrives early and often in a legal career. The practical experience of attempting to do so — the cocktail functions, the LinkedIn strategies, the alumni events and breakfast seminars — is somewhat less inspiring than the advice suggests. A junior lawyer reflects on what networking actually is, and what it is not.
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The next generation of legal leaders will be defined by their ability to build resilient, automated infrastructures that empower their teams and protect their clients.
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Lawyers have a complicated relationship with marketing that reflects a genuine tension between professional identity and commercial necessity. The resolution of that tension is not to suppress it but to build a more sophisticated understanding of what marketing means in a professional services context — and what it does not mean.
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Relocation cases are sitting at the intersection of hardship, strategy and legal principle. This piece explores how timing, financial pressure and “status quo” can quietly determine outcomes - and why the idea of “choice” in these disputes deserves closer scrutiny.
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True authority is not a product of self-promotion but an emergent property of consistent, high-value contribution to the public discourse.
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Australia's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regime will capture new categories of professional activity, extending beyond traditional reporting entities such as banks, financial institutions, and casinos, to now include lawyers,.
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Diversity statistics are improving. The experience of being the only person of colour in many rooms within Australian corporate law firms is not yet substantially different. The gap between institutional commitment and everyday reality — and why closing it matters more than any policy document.
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