As an in-house lawyer you face many challenges, from advising on complex legal or strategic matters across a range of commercial and legal practice areas, to repetitive tasks such as…
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Arguably, blockchain is to 2018 what the iPhone was to 2007. Sexy, revolutionary, and soon to be such a common part of everyday life that it barely rates a mention.…
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You can’t swing a church bell in South Australia without striking mention of Sir Robert Torrens. Blockchain real estate might not be in a South Australian practitioner’s lexicon just yet,…
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The 2017 Bitcoin boom means most lawyers have at least heard of this popular cryptocurrency. However, few understand how Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies really work, how they are used and…
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In 2016, disruption in the Australian legal services industry became a normal state of affairs. Against a background of declining client demand, law firm growth and revenues, traditional business models…
Read more2016 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 2016 and the key issues to influence…
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Blockchain, the emerging peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology, has continued to make recent headlines in the business and legal media. Blockchain underpins a new generation of disruptive transaction technologies, by promising…
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