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Digital Incompetence: The Dirty Secret behind Outsize Discovery Costs
Fortunes are being made and squandered as courts, counsel and litigants grapple with modern digital evidence. It’s a costly mess, but it needn’t be so, writes Craig Ball In a process called ... [more]
Getting in the right frame of mind
The high levels of depression and burnout amongst lawyers is a much talked about area of the profession, with no definitive answers as yet on how to alleviate such problems. Andrew May and Danielle Buckley ... [more]
Tracking your every move
Corrs Chambers Westgarth announced this week that the firm has purchased automatic time billing software with the ability to track and report on a lawyer's daily work activities. Not everyone agrees ... [more]
IT and the modern law firm
Technology should help law firms to access and store information. However, with lawyers under constant time and billing pressures, Dunstan de Souza asks, how do you decide what suits you and your practice ... [more]
 
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Through good times and bad
THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND BAD With all the talk of depression in the law over the last few weeks, I couldn’t help but think of a bigger picture – that of the umbrella of a profession in supporting and protecting ... [more]
Up and down and all around
The Big Apple and its surrounds is apparently not such a fruitful destination for Australian lawyers at the moment. This really needs no explanation: the line of devastation in the wake of the credit crisis ... [more]
Green gets mean
LAST WEEK Lawyers Weekly hosted its first “emerging issues forum” looking at the impending Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. The audience heard from six expert panellists who shared their very diverse ... [more]
 
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