Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network
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The Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network explores the myriad issues, challenges, trends and opportunities facing legal professionals in Australia. Produced by Australia’s largest and most-trusted legal publication, Lawyers Weekly, the four shows on the channel – The Lawyers Weekly Show, The Corporate Counsel Show, The Boutique Lawyer Show and Protégé – all bring legal marketplace news to the audience via engaging and insightful conversations. Our editorial team talking to legal professionals and industry experts about their fascinating careers, ground-breaking case work, broader sociocultural quagmires, and much more. Visit www.lawyersweekly.com.au/podcasts for the full list of episodes.
Episodes
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Jul 2, 2019 • 22min
An update on GDPR, and what it means for your legal team
Tal Williams partner at Holman Webb Lawyers joins host Jerome Doraisamy in this week’s episode of the Corporate Counsel Show to discuss data privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Jerome and Mr Williams discuss the key differences between the Australian privacy laws and the GDPR, what it means for Australian practitioners and the regulation of social media moving forward. Mr Williams also reveals the importance of having systems in place to safe guard your business in the instance of a breach, key dates for business who operate within Europe and how taking a proactive approach to privacy will be overall beneficial to businesses.
Jun 28, 2019 • 19min
4-day weeks, flexibility and other shake-ups to traditional working
Legal practices around the world are experimenting with ‘new-age’ ways of working, including four-day weeks in the United Kingdom. Discovering best practice conditions will, however, largely depend on the idiosyncractic needs of the firm. In this episode, Jerome speaks with two board members of Minds Count, Canon Oceania general counsel David Field and Swaab managing partner Mary Digiglio to unpack whether a four-day week would work, the importance of flexibility and other such movements away from the traditional 9-to-5.
Jun 21, 2019 • 18min
Breaking away from the ‘boys club’ in law
After experiencing what she perceived to be a "boys club" environment in the legal profession, Her Lawyer founder and principal Courtney Bowie decided to forge her own path by way of a legal practice dedicated to empowering ambitious women in business, with a team of female lawyers behind her. In this episode, Courtney and Jerome discuss the place of women-centric legal practices, as well as the wellness considerations and strategies abound with such a professional setup.
Jun 19, 2019 • 15min
The rise of litigation roles in-house
Daniel Stirling says that the industry is seeing people at all different levels, considering making the leap to in-house litigation roles because there is a real alignment with their skills. In this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by the director of G2 Legal, Daniel Stirling. The pair discuss the increase of in-house litigation roles for corporate counsel, what factors and trends caused the increase and what part the royal commission has played in it all.
Jun 19, 2019 • 19min
e-settlements: mandates, challenges and opportunities
In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, brought to you by InfoTrack, Jerome Doraisamy and InfoTrack CEO John Ahern discuss some of the issues facing lawyers and conveyancers when it comes to navigating mandates for e-settlements, how to turn such hurdles into opportunities, and why practitioners in this space have been slow to incorporate new technology. Plus, the pair dive into SettleIT, the new platform from InfoTrack, and its place in an increasingly share-based economy and marketplace.
Jun 14, 2019 • 31min
Financial performance, discrimination and other issues within partnership ranks
As EOFY approaches, money generated for the partnership is a hot topic. But, across the calendar year, what other issues do partners have to contend with amongst themselves? In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy and Shine Lawyers legal consultant Samantha Mangwana engage in a two-part discussion: evaluation of financial performance by partners at EOFY, and issues that can and do arise at this time, and then an exploration of discrimination within the partnership ranks and the circumstances in which a partner might be asked to leave the firm.
Jun 7, 2019 • 21min
Getting junior lawyers into good financial habits from day one
Law graduates learn about trust accounting for clients to be admitted, but when it comes to managing personal finances, how well are junior lawyers looking after themselves? In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy and SkilledSmart founder and law graduate Paridhi Jain how the next generation of lawyers can better set themselves up financially so that they may not only be more on top of their own lives, but be better, more successful lawyers as a result.
Jun 5, 2019 • 26min
Being a ‘corporate greenie’ and ‘barefoot GC’
Greenpeace Australia general counsel Katrina Bullock says that clients and the broader community must understand that individuals and institutions can be both commercially minded and environmentally sustainable. In this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, Jerome Doraisamy and Katrina discuss her vocational journey, passion for the projects she undertakes, and how that fuels a strategic approach to help clients implement new ways of thinking that are still good for the bottom line.
May 31, 2019 • 19min
Should Australian lawyers unionise?
The recent establishment of the Aotearoa Legal Workers' Union in New Zealand, and its proposed advocacy against minimum wage breaches and workplace sexual harassment and bullying, begs the question: why aren't more Australian lawyers joining legal-specific unions or starting their own such movements? In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Electrical Trades Union of Australia national legal counsel, Alana Heffernan, to discuss the issues in legal practice that may give rise to a need for a lawyer's union, how such advocacy could operate and how to overcome perceived issues with industry-specific unions.
May 24, 2019 • 18min
Could Australia ever see abortion laws like Alabama and Georgia?
There still remain hurdles to access to safe terminations, especially in rural areas of the country, and - with religious freedoms featuring prominently in the sociopolitical discourse - it must be considered whether new state-based laws emerging in America's Deep South could see light in Australia. In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by barrister and chair of the Australian Lawyers Alliance medical law special interest group, Ngaire Watson.
