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6 tips for nailing your annual review and how to ask for a pay rise

Sophie Coulson 12 Aug 2020

Young lawyers realise very quickly that our success often comes down to one thing – preparation. Annual reviews are no different. Good preparation is how you will nail your annual review. So, how do you best prepare for your review?

Workplace

Your Career: Six ways to ace a video interview

Jason Elias 01 Aug 2020

As the pandemic continues, it’s wise to be prepared for interviewing via videoconferencing.

COVID-19 Technology Workplace

6 tips for young lawyers who have been let go amid the COVID-19 crisis

Jessica Alesci-Pettitt 29 Jul 2020

Many young lawyers will face unemployment during these harrowing times, therefore it is vital that they strategise for potential future unemployment.

Workplace Young Persons

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10 tips for working from home during the COVID-19 era

Tessa Micucci and Amanda Di Placido 20 Jul 2020

COVID-19 took the world by storm, upending our lives and work in a dramatic way. Given the “working from home” era is only just beginning, here are ten tips to get you through lockdown 2.0 and beyond.

Wellbeing Workplace

Mental health: Workplace wellness during COVID-19

Carolyn Ford 01 Jun 2020

On top of the normal pressures of legal practice, uncertainty around work and the pandemic has increased stress for many practitioners, but there is help available.

COVID-19 Health Wellbeing Workplace

Biometric data: Under your skin – Employee rights to privacy

Charles Power 01 Jun 2020

Time and attendance systems that collect and match employee biometric data can lead to privacy concerns. Recent FWC decisions highlight the measures an employer should adopt to impose an enforceable requirement.

Technology Workplace

Workplace deaths: Lives matter

Erik Dober 01 Jun 2020

Legislation has been introduced to criminalise workplace manslaughter. These new offences build on employers’ existing duties and impose tough new penalties when breaches cause a person’s death.

Workplace

Vigilance or vigilante? Managing long-term ill and injured employees

Mark Branagan 01 Jun 2020

The task of managing long-term ill and injured employees is probably the most complex and difficult challenge for management, human resources professionals and legal advisers.

Workplace

Law firm culture: Technology and your firm

Fabian Horton 01 Apr 2020

It is essential to develop a firm culture that can take advantage of technology and change. key is understanding how your team, technology and firm's story interrelate. Only then can a resilient, yet agile, culture be built.

Practice Management Technology Workplace

Victorian Legal Services Board: Majority of lawyers say #MeToo

Fiona McLeay 01 Apr 2020

Lawyers are urged to speak up if they witness sexual harassment.

Legal Services Workplace

Young Lawyers: A call to action

Rose Inglis 01 Apr 2020

Young lawyers are particularly vulnerable to workplace sexual harassment. There are steps you can take to change the status quo.

Workplace Workplace Relations

Mental health: Wellbeing in the workplace

Associate Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou 01 Dec 2019

There are practical steps lawyers can take to improve mental wellbeing for themselves and their colleagues...

Health Wellbeing Workplace

What does CEDAW mean for women in Australian workplaces?

Allana Smith 20 Nov 2019

CEDAW strives for substantive equality, requiring nations who ratify it to be proactive. Is Australia doing enough?

Advocacy Discrimination Diversity Women's Rights Workplace

According to merit?/Diversity: Fighting sexual harassment in firms

Vanessa Shambrook 01 Oct 2019

It’s time for the legal sector to address the underlying attitudes that allow gender discrimination and sexual harassment to flourish...

Practice & Procedure Women's Rights Workplace

New regime requires companies to protect whistleblowers

Karin Derkley 19 Sep 2019

New whistleblower protection legislation will open the way to increased litigation and better defend those who disclose corporate misconduct, an LIV lunchtime session heard this week...

Corporate Social Responsibility Workplace

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