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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Guide to Choosing the Best Legal Research Software for Your Firm
No matter the area of the law you specialise in, without a suitable platform or provider to keep abreast of precedents and court rulings, you may go excessively overtime – billable or not – on legal research admin.
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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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What Law Firm Practitioners Really Think About Doing Legal Research [Report]
This report showcases results from a targeted survey of sole to mid-sized law participants based in Australia and New Zealand. Download your copy.
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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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