![The Hon Michael Kirby on LGBTQI Rights and the Profession [Podcast]](https://insight.thomsonreuters.com.au/legal/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/06/072A4141-e1525410851911-270x141.jpg)
In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show – brought to you by Thomson Reuters Australia – we reflect on LGBTQI rights, inclusion, diversity and advocacy. Lawyers Weekly managing…
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![Talent Management and Technology: How to Empower Your In-house Legal Team [Whitepaper]](https://insight.thomsonreuters.com.au/legal/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/06/empowering-in-house-legal-team-whitepaper-cover_image-270x141.jpg)
Talent Management and Technology: How to Empower Your In-house Legal Team [Whitepaper]
In today’s highly regulated, digitally disrupted business landscape, general counsel are no longer simply focused on providing legal services to their organisation. Their workloads are increasing as they take on…
Read more![LGBTQI Inclusion Among Legal Professionals [Infographic]](https://insight.thomsonreuters.com.au/legal/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/06/lgbtqi-inclusion-infographic_preview-270x141.jpg)
LGBTQI Inclusion and Diversity Among Legal Professionals: A Snapshot [Infographic]
The recent same-sex marriage postal vote in Australia delivered a resounding ‘yes’ result, with 62 per cent of the 12.7 million voters agreeing that the law be changed to allow…
Read more![Why Upskilling Junior Lawyers Should be Your Firm’s Priority [Whitepaper]](https://insight.thomsonreuters.com.au/legal/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/06/upskilling-junior-lawyers-whitepaper_cover-270x141.jpg)
Why Upskilling Junior Lawyers Should be Your Firm’s Priority: Key Benefits and Approaches [Whitepaper]
This paper examines the significant benefits to your firm of upskilling and empowering your junior legal staff in an increasingly competitive and disrupted market for legal services. It makes the…
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Tooma’s Annotated Work Health and Safety Act 2011, Second Edition: Division 4 – Duty of Officers, Workers and Other Persons [Sample Chapter]
Work Health & Safety is a legal regime to minimise risk, achieving this by imposing serious responsibilities in the workplace. Who bears this responsibility – who is an ‘officer’ –…
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Why Plain Language Law is Shaping the Way Legal Solutions are Delivered
It’s time we thought differently about delivering legal services. The practice of law has changed. The days of hiring practitioners with specialist knowledge and decades of experience for small litigation,…
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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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3 Ways to Retain Your Firm’s Non-Lawyer Talent
In the past, traditional firms primarily distinguished themselves by their name or the calibre of their legal advice, and there was a perceived distinction between the revenue generators and ‘cost…
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Women in Legal Diversity and Inclusion Report Australia 2017 [Infographic]
Changes in the legal industry have spurred many recent developments in the practice of law, but how much has gender diversity and inclusion improved in the profession? Thomson Reuters has…
Read more![Challenging a Medical Certificate [Practice Note]](https://insight.thomsonreuters.com.au/legal/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/06/practical-law-employment-practice-note-challenging-medical-certificate_cover-270x141.jpg)
Challenging a Medical Certificate [Practice Note]
This Practical Law Australia Employment practice note examines when employers can challenge the sufficiency of a medical certificate, including fraudulent, backdated or potentially inaccurate medical certificates. Table of contents: Usual requirements…
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