Lawyers spend the first years of their career primarily focused on honing their legal skills and gathering experience but leadership skills can be a more important asset.
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Mindfulness in Legal Education: An Essential Skill for Future Lawyers?
Lawyers must show fortitude and remain calm under pressure. They must learn to make quality decisions in real-world contexts.
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Change Makers Podcast Episode 3: LGBTIQ Advocacy in the Legal Profession
In this special episode of the Change Makers Podcast, LGBTIQ Advocacy in the Legal Profession, the Co-Chairs of Thomson Reuters Pride at Work delve into transgender diversity and the common law.
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The 7 Most Memorable Cases of 2018
Religious irreligiosity, defamatory machine learning, and an (un)clearly inappropriate forum – 2018 showcased why litigation is sometimes stranger than fiction. The Local Court of New South Wales held that purported…
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2018 Australia: State of the Legal Market [Report]
The Melbourne Law School and Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor® are pleased to present this report setting out the dominant trends impacting the legal market in 2018 and the key issues…
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Spotlight on Uniform Evidence Law: Stephen Odgers SC on the 13th Edition [Q&A]
From the uniform evidence law’s formative stages through to its adoption in six jurisdictions, leading barrister and lecturer Stephen Odgers SC has helped pave the way by providing commentary written…
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The Hon Michael Kirby on LGBTQI Rights and the Profession [Podcast]
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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Putting Technology in its Place: Are Law Schools the Right Place to Teach Coding?
In 2015, Melbourne Law School introduced a coding course into their curricula. Last year, the University of New South Wales Law Faculty followed suit, launching their “Designing Technology Solutions for…
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Observations from the Global Legal Hackathon 2018: Embracing New Forms of Knowledge and Expertise
My previous article, Observations from the Global Legal Hackathon 2018: The Communal Dimension of Intellectual Property, considered the challenges in finding the right intellectual property norms for the unique context…
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Observations from the Global Legal Hackathon 2018: The Communal Dimension of Intellectual Property
The Sydney Round of the Global Legal Hackathon, on which I have the privilege of reporting, brought together participants from a range of backgrounds including law, programming, project management and…
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