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 Linda Rayment 01 Nov 2016

This year we have seen the YL Executive and committees develop and implement some impressive projects and initiatives, including various short videos aimed at empowering and equipping the YL membership. 

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 Adam Wakeling & Andrea de Souza 01 Nov 2016

Everywhere you turn we’re bombarded by messages that the nature of the legal profession is changing. We’re being replaced by robots or computers or being outsourced overseas...

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 Daniel Yim 01 Nov 2016

While the artificial intelligence revolution is certainly coming, another significant change may be upon us even sooner. This is not about computers replacing humans, but humans replacing humans...

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 Andrea de Souza 01 Nov 2016

The focus of diversity in the legal profession is shifting to include cultural change in different areas. Lack of diversity in the legal profession has been discussed for many years...

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 Bianca Pyers 01 Nov 2016

Electronic conveyancing is here to stay – so what about the risk of fraud? The National Electronic Conveyancing Scheme, managed through Property Exchange Australia (PEXA)...
 

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 Katie Miller 01 Nov 2016

Traditionally, learning to be a lawyer involved adopting the fixed and relatively unchanged ways of practising law and delivering legal services. The early career lawyer was treated as an empty vessel or a blank slate...

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 Anna Belgiorno-Nettis 01 Nov 2016

Most law graduates are females1 yet women fill less than 25 per cent of the legal profession’s senior positions.2 My research on a law student senior position suggests the imbalance starts earlier. Even before practice, there is a women and leadership issue...

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 Adam Wakeling 01 Nov 2016

What would a law firm designed from scratch to suit the 21st century look like? Around the world, there are new and established law firms seeking to answer that question by adopting different business models...

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 Young Lawyers Journal 01 Nov 2016

An in-house lawyer for Telstra, Ms Jackson returned to part-time study at Melbourne Law School (MLS) to pursue her interest in competition...

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 Keely O’Dowd 01 Nov 2016

Have you ever wondered what the Melbourne CBD looks like upside down from the 53rd level of the Rialto Tower...

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 Adam Wakeling 01 Nov 2016

In February 2011, IBM Computer Watson defeated long-time champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings to win the quiz show Jeopardy...
 

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 Benjamin Hofmann 01 Nov 2016

Space law is not a new concept, however, the need for experts in space law continues to grow as new parties rapidly enter the industry of the final frontier...

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 Young Lawyers Journal 02 Sep 2016

Welcome to the YLJ flipbook. You can turn pages electronically, magnify text and click through to read about your favourite article and find out about upcoming YL events...

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 Linda Rayment 02 Sep 2016

This month we focus on your health and wellbeing. On 11 August 2016, the LIV YL hosted the famous Golden Gavel public speaking competition over breakfast at Zinc...

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 Adam Wakeling & Andrea De Souza 02 Sep 2016

You have not failed if you develop a mental illness, just as you have not failed if you break a bone. An organisation has not failed just because it has employees with mental illnesses. Working in a stressful job in an organisation...

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