31 March 2020 is a crucial day for the legal profession. It’s the last day of the Continuing Professional Development year in many States and Territories. The Practical Law Team has suggested some top webinar picks to assist your learning.
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Securing Your Practice’s Future: Making the Pieces Fit Together
Last year was one of substantial change for many small law firms as they continued to develop and refine their skills, especially in regard to how they run their businesses, not just how they practice law.
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High Court Confirms ‘Cuckoo Smurfing’ Alive and Well
There is now no doubt that sophisticated and modern variations of ‘cuckoo smurfing’ are caught by the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, Thomson Reuters Author, Dr Mathew Leighton-Daly, demonstrates in this article.
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Barristers, Beware of the ‘Desktop Discounting’ Trap
David Kim is a Barrister at Melbourne-based, Owen Dixon Chambers. It is his view that Barristers commonly apply discounts to their client fees – sometimes unwittingly – when conducting legal research.
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6 Ways to Raise the Bar on Your Legal Research
Behind every successful Barrister and sole practitioner is a depth of experience and expertise that not even the smartest technology could replicate. But in building the foundations of a strong legal case you also need access to impeccable case law research.
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Coronavirus and Bushfires Rekindle Interest in ‘Force Majeure’
The destruction and disruption being wrought by the bushfires and the coronavirus has businesses dusting off contracts to check whether these phenomena might be ‘force majeure’.
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What’s New in the 2020 Banking Code of Practice
Following the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry issued on 1 February 2019, the Australian Banking Association revised the 1 July 2019 version of its Banking Code of Practice.
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Artificial Intelligence Comes to Cybersecurity
AI in cybersecurity is a double-edged sword. For every advance deployed to detect problems are hackers who can use that same technology to wreak havoc.
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Legal Operations Manager at AustPost Shares her Career Story
Naheed Sanusi is the Legal Operations Manager at AustPost and has been a key driver of innovation in her Legal Team. We sat down with Naheed to talk discuss the legal ops space.
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7 Cases that Shocked the Nation in 2019
The legal year 2019 saw lawyers in the spotlight for many of reasons – good and not-so-good. The shockers here are just a taste of the many sure to rear their heads throughout the year 2020, argues Ross Davis from Practical Law.
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