Corporate Commercial Lawyer 2-4 years PAE

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Corporate Commercial Lawyer 2-4 years PAE Leading Mid-Tier CBD firm, high profile clients Friendly, cohesive team, work life balance Generous remuneration on offer $$ Firm: Our client is a successful and highly regarded Mid-Tier firm with an excellent reputation for providing high quality and professional advice to clients.   About the Role:   Due to growth, a new opportunity has arisen for a Corporate Commercial Lawyer to join their team.  Working closely with the Partners in the firm, you will be exposed to a range of commercial and corporate work including IT, procurement and privacy.  This role will see you […]
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A 19th Century university law curriculum is ideal for the 19th Century

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Australian graduates believe the current legal curriculum is failing to prepare them for ‘the real world’ when they graduate according to a broad cross section of recent graduates and young lawyers who participated in Part 2 of InfoTrack’s Legal Education Roundtable Series.  The academic focus on developing analytical thinking was felt to be too theoretical and removed from the reality of the modern legal landscape.  Roundtable participants believe more time should be spent on building practical skills and work presentation methods as these are prerequisites for securing a role and succeeding at work. While it is an industry-accepted practice that […]
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eConveyancing Industry Award Winners

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Conveyancers, property lawyers and the major banks spearheading the digitisation of property transactions were recognised at a gala awards dinner in Melbourne on 22 May 2018. The evening was the culmination of industry-wide conference PropertyX, held by Property Exchange Australia (PEXA), with presentations from ARNECC, the Department of Finance, Services & Innovation of the NSW Government and Deloitte earlier in the day. The awards were created to celebrate those driving the industry’s digital reform, with winners drawn from the pool of over 6,000 conveyancers and lawyers and 140+ financial institutions on-board with PEXA. The awards were split into three categories: […]
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Web-apps and Geo-targeting are delivering new clients to law firms

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Cost effective web application development and mobile location tracking services are being used to deliver new clients to law firms and to stay in touch with existing clients. Gadens new web application for Building Codes Gadens recently launched a user-friendly web application to assist head contractors and subcontractors to be compliant with building codes for Commonwealth funded work. Corporate Advisory Partner Jonathon Hadley, a specialist in workplace relations, said: “There are strict building codes for Commonwealth funded work which could ultimately result in exclusion sanctions if contractors don’t meet their obligations.” “The codes are complex and our new web application is a step-by-step tool […]
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myprosperity and View Legal partner to offer automated estate planning services

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myprosperity personal wealth portal is partnering with Australian estate planning firm, View Legal to provide free, standard wills. A personal wealth portal, myprosperity is a white-label desktop and mobile app that advisers and accountants can enable for their clients. The platform provides a consolidated, real-time view of a client’s entire financial world, thanks to live integrations with leading financial services providers. When enabled by an adviser, myprosperity’s estate planning functionality will allow a client to generate a standard View Legal will and automatically populate the relevant data from their personal wealth portal, including all their assets and liabilities. This legally […]
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Transformative Pricing Practices For Professionals

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David Wells, Liz Harris and John Chisholm have established a consulting practice to work with professional knowledge firms to help them with business transformation and especially pricing, an area where they believe there is most upside for firms.   The consulting practice is called Innovim and is officially launching at a breakfast in Melbourne on Wednesday 30 May. Following the breakfast launch Innovim is offering a half day Pricing Masterclass with educator, speaker & writer Ron Baker, the world’s leading authority and thought leader on pricing in professional firms. Ron Baker will run a half day pricing masterclass for members of any of the professions who are seriously interested in transforming their […]
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The Value of Voice and Face-to-Face Communication in the Digital Age

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by *Maria Skettos. In today’s digitally saturated world, texting, emailing, mobile messaging and social media interaction is the norm. These modes of communication are efficient, quick, convenient and appealing in a business world that encourages greater productivity. But has the shift towards these new communication preferences come at a price? Face-to-face communication has declined and telephone calls are a dying phenomenon. Text messaging in the US grew significantly from 14 billion in 2000 to 188 billion in 2010, and according to German firm Statista, in 2012, 2.2 trillion text messages were sent in the US. A 2012 Pew Institute Survey […]
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Legal operations platform LawVu now integrates with Workshare file comparison

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The LawVu platform helps in-house lawyers and laws firms work together more efficiently and transparently. It makes collaboration a natural and easy part of the lifecycle of a legal issue. In-house teams are able to instruct, scope, allocate budgets, measure current and future spend and view all legal matters in one place. The platform has now become even more powerful with the integration of Workshare’s file comparison software. “Partnering with LawVu is an exciting opportunity for Workshare, as our leading document comparison engine, Workshare Compare, will be seamlessly embedded into the full suite of services offered through LawVu’s innovative SaaS platform.” said Shaun Locke, General Manager of […]
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