Staying Informed - Law Institute of Victoria

Virginia Warren 01 May 2019

What to do when your emotions have hijacked you...

How to refresh your health and wellbeing

LIV 18 Apr 2019

Juggling work, life and other commitments can get busy and stressful. As we reach the mid-point of the year, it is important to take stock of your health and wellbeing...

Health Wellbeing

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

Tips for managing difficult people

Claire Walczak and Alexandra Metherell 01 Apr 2019

Lawyers need to develop skills and techniques to manage adversaries in the workplace...

Wellbeing Workplace Workplace Relations

Resilience a core leadership skill

Vanessa Shambrook 01 Mar 2019

Now is the ideal time to focus on building positive wellbeing in the year ahead...

Leadership Wellbeing

Ways to reduce stigma in the workplace

SANE Australia 01 Mar 2019

A few small changes can make a world of difference to your colleagues, your workplace and you...

Wellbeing

Why so serious?

Law Institute Journal 01 Feb 2019

New workshops will explore how to succeed with peace, purpose and happiness...

Wellbeing

Criminal justice organisations collaborate to improve wellbeing across sector

LIV Media 12 Dec 2018

Ten legal, judicial and government organisations have signed a Statement of Shared Commitment to improve the wellbeing of those working in the criminal justice sector...

Communication Health Occupations Wellbeing

Statement of Shared Commitment

LIV Media 11 Dec 2018

The signatories of this Statement commit to a shared set of values, common understandings and a collective focus to work on improving the well-being of those who work across the criminal justice sector...

Communication Health Mentoring Wellbeing

High stress low productivity

Karin Derkley 03 Dec 2018

Evidence is mounting that a workplace culture of long hours and relentless demands is undermining productivity and even the mental health of legal practitioners...

Practice Management Wellbeing

Out in the open

Carly Schrever 03 Dec 2018

Australia’s first research measuring judicial stress and wellbeing yields important findings on occupational pressures...

Wellbeing Workplace

The wellness pyramid

Phoebe Blank and Claire Walczak 03 Dec 2018

How often do lawyers actually practise health and wellbeing?

Wellbeing

Summer reading

Jack Serong 30 Nov 2018

Novelist and former barrister Jock Serong suggested titles to read over summer to a Judicial College of Victoria audience recently. Here’s what he recommends and why...

Communication Opinions Wellbeing