Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network

In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy rounds up his editorial colleagues – editor Emma Ryan and journalist Grace Ormsby – for a discussion on the year that was and the year that will be.  2018 has seen a multitude of issues across the Australian legal profession, and 2019 promises to give rise to many more conversations about how those in law will operate and practice in the future. This episode showcases what the Lawyers Weekly team will be investigating and covering, as well as gives you a better insight into the team that brings you your daily news!

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy speaks with the new president of the Australian Bar Association, Jennifer Batrouney QC.    With the First 100 Years of Women in Law celebrations completed, stauncher positions being taken on social justice issues, and continuing evolutions in legal practice, there is much to do and talk about for those at the Bar. This conversation explores the ABA’s plans for 2019, the importance of advocacy on sociopolitical issues, challenges and opportunities for the Bar in the coming year, and much more. 

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Will Magee and Emma Ryan are joined by icourts founder and CEO Rebecca Grant, icourts director Relativity and consulting practice Matt Lam, and Relativity Asia Pacific team lead Stuart Hall.    This episode was recorded remotely at Relativity’s mega-conference, Relativity Fest, held in Chicago, Illinois. In this episode, Rebecca and Matt take listeners through the inception of icourts - a self-described legal technology partner for law firms, corporations and governments. The trio then dive into what their partners should know about the rapidly increasing and complex world of data and e-discovery, as well as what to look out for over the next 12 months and beyond.

In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, brought to you by Commonwealth Bank, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by a panel of prominent guests to discuss the strategies Australian law firms are employing to keep pace – both with their clients and also their competitors – across the board. This conversation responds to the findings of the 2018 CommBank Legal Market Pulse Report, which focused on the ways in which firms are future-proofing their operations in responses to the myriad and ongoing changes in day-to-day client engagement, legal service delivery, and other such matters for working professionals. In this discussion, we’re going to flesh out some of the ways legal individuals and institutions are effecting change, as well as some of the issues, challenges and opportunities on the horizon.  The panelists for this episode are: Marc Totaro (national head of professional services at Commonwealth Bank), George Beaton (executive chairman of Beaton Research and Consulting) and Emma Heuston (practice leader at NewLaw firm LegalVision).

In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, brought to you by UniSearch, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by a panel of prominent guests to discuss how best to engage an expert. With the rate of litigious matters on the rise, it is increasingly important that practitioners be aware not only of their duties in engaging a relevant expert, the most effective ways to instruct that expert, get an opinion from them, and also, whether an expert is needed at all.

In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show recorded in Chicago, Illinois at Relativity’s mega-conference, Relativity Fest, Will Magee and Emma Ryan are joined by Relativity vice president of international Steve Couling and Relativity Asia Pacific team lead Stuart Hall. Join us as we take you behind the scenes of the annual event connecting the international e-discovery community - and hear from Steve and Stuart about what Aussie lawyers should know about this burgeoning market.

In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC, MP the chair of Transparency International Australia, Fiona McLeod SC. This episode was recorded remotely at the recent Australian Bar Association/NSW Bar Association conference in Sydney and fleshes out why the Labor Party believes we need a federal anti-corruption body, what it would look like, and from the perspective of the legal profession, what such a body must look like in order to be effective. 

On this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Coca-Cola Amatil legal counsel and The Learned Crew founder, Jessie Porteus. The landscape of legal education is rapidly changing, what with technological advancement, modern methods of service delivery and new and exciting vocational opportunities on the horizon. Determining how to proceed through the academic journey requires considered planning and strategy. In this conversation, we discuss some of the ways that the law students of today can best evolve into productive, successful lawyers of tomorrow, as we move into 2019.

On this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Rice Mediations director Anne-Marie Rice. Anne-Marie went viral on social media this past fortnight for delivering a speech in which she offered a rousing call to arms for women and men across the profession to challenge the inherently masculine nature of day-to-day legal practice and ensure that practice moving forward can be more conducive to those lawyers who have responsibilities outside. In this conversation, we chat about the issues flagged in her speech and what needs to change in the future.

On this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Piper Alderman partners Tim Lange and Ted Williams. Many of us understand whistleblowing in the context of Wikileaks and other such political matters, but in the professional realm, amendments are on the cards for new and more effective protections for whistleblowers in Australia, which – according to our guests – can hopefully have a greater impact than our existing legislative structures. In this discussion, we flesh out what the proposed amendments will mean moving forward.