Staying Informed - Law Institute of Victoria

Flexibility: Lawyers opt for freelance careers

Karin Derkley 01 Nov 2019

New platforms connecting lawyers with short-term placements appeal to those wanting to work outside the usual structures...

Interviews Legal Biography

Beyond the law: Looking back to move forward

Karin Derkley 01 Nov 2019

Lawyer, activist and author Lizzie O’Shea has focused on history and technology in her first book...

Interviews Legal Biography

Inside stories: Lawman of Charlton

Karin Derkley 01 Nov 2019

Bill Freeman has been a lawyer for 65 years and still loves working for his community...

Interviews Legal Biography

Inside stories: Holding their own

IOLA MATHEWS 01 Oct 2019

Flos Greig’s pioneering career and fighting spirit had a lasting influence on her great-niece...

Interviews Legal Biography

Inside stories: Marking 51 years in the law

Jonathan Tisher 01 Sep 2019

Property lawyer Frank Tisher has been practising for more than half a century. Jonathan Tisher looks back at his father’s career...

Interviews Legal Biography

Inside stories: Tending to pressing matters

Carolyn Ford 01 Aug 2019

It is 50 years since Vincent Verduci started Verduci Lawyers but the former mayor and part-time olive oil producer has no plans to retire...

Interviews Legal Biography

E-conveyancing can be e-fficient

Heather Hibberd 01 May 2019

Four practitioners from different sized and structured firms tell how they have adapted to the electronic conveyancing system. The firms all joined the first and, at the time, only electronic lodgement network operator, PEXA, at different times in the past five years...

Interviews

Attorney-General calls for transparency

Carolyn Ford 01 May 2019

The Attorney-General Jill Hennessy wants transparency in the justice system – a belief honed during her time as a lawyer...

Interviews Legal Biography

From classroom to courtroom

Rebecca Johnston 01 Apr 2019

In 2013, I moved to Australia in search of an adventure and, like many of my compatriots, to escape from the austerity that had taken hold of Ireland. I arrived as a high-school teacher and believed that teaching was my career for life...

Interviews Students Wellbeing

Bendigo honours local magistrate

Carolyn Ford 03 Dec 2018

A fundraiser auction produced a win-win for two good causes in the community...

Interviews

Equine lore

Carolyn Ford 01 Nov 2018

LA-based Norton Rose Fulbright lawyer David Francis’ love of horses has taken a literary turn...

Interviews

Dutch honour

Karin Derkley 01 Oct 2018

Retired lawyer and amateur historian Noel Jackling has been recognised as a knight of the Order of Oranje-Nassau...

Interviews

New job new era

Karin Derkley 01 Dec 2017

Victoria’s new Chief Justice Anne Ferguson is the first solicitor to lead a superior court in Australia...

Interviews Legal Biography

Mr Crossword's milestone

Carolyn Ford 01 Dec 2017

Patrick Street’s mind works in mysterious ways. Mr Street, 75, is the retired deputy chief magistrate behind Letters of the Law, the LIJ’s legal cryptic crossword...

Interviews Legal Biography

Not old enough to retire

Karin Derkley 01 Dec 2017

Eighty seven-year-old Vito Cilauro, the oldest practising LIV member, has been an inspiration to his community – and popular culture...

Interviews Occupations

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