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Earlier this week, Lawyers Weekly’s sister brand, Space Connect, hosted the Space Summit 2024. At that event, three legal experts discussed the latest and most pressing ethical considerations pertaining to the proliferation of activity in space and the accompanying legal developments.

Panel moderator Jerome Doraisamy spoke with Professor Melissa de Zwart from the University of Adelaide, King & Wood Mallesons partner Annabel Griffin, and Akin senior counsel Dr Michael Mineiro about the headline current ethical issues and concerns in space law, how well placed Australian laws and regulations are to deal with the state of affairs, balancing free enterprise against notions of no ownership in space, and the laws regarding the mining of space resources.
The panel also delved into national security considerations, the ethical questions about sending humans to the moon, future tech such as environmental modification in space, and future predictions and warnings about ethics as it pertains to the “space race” and beyond.


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In this special episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, produced in partnership with LexisNexis, we explore how law departments can successfully utilise emerging technologies like generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to provide optimal value as a business function.

Host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back LexisNexis Asia and Pacific managing director Greg Dickason to discuss the provider’s recent ANZ Sentiment Survey, the extent to which the use of emerging technologies is skyrocketing among corporate counsel, whether they realise the breadth of opportunities from such tech, what in-house counsel need to understand about AI at this critical juncture, and how teams can best determine what they need such emerging tech for.

Greg also details the need to invest time in such products to save time later, the main use cases for GenAI for corporate counsel as they currently stand, identifying the right solution, appreciating how the right solution can help solve broader problems across the law department, the risks of generic products, saving money for the business by way of the right product, the importance of a unified user experience, and navigating the broader challenges of AI regulation.

To learn more about LexisNexis’ offerings in this space, click here.

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With a new financial year just one month away, now is the time for sole practitioners and small-firm owners to take stock of the year that was and plan for the year ahead. For this award-winning practitioner, not losing sight of what one wants to achieve and living life and one’s business by design is front of mind in ensuring ongoing success.
In this episode of The Boutique Lawyer Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back Conveyed founder and chief overlord Melissa Barlas – who won the Sole Practitioner of the Year category at the 2023 Australian Law Awards – about her primary reflections on FY2023–24 and what has been learnt, meaningfully triaging urgent priorities, striking a balance between proactivity and reactivity in formulating a business plan, and the importance of aligning one’s personal life with the objectives and outcomes of a legal business.
Barlas also delves into what FY2024–25 will look like for her firm and what her headline focus will be, how she determined the pathway forward and why, the questions SME firm owners need to be asking of themselves and their businesses in building a strategy, looking after one’s self, the extent to which one can take notice of what’s happening socioculturally or politically, opportunities on the horizon, and what she’s looking forward to in the coming year.
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Dr Nadia Stojanova, a Victorian barrister, recently completed a doctorate in law reform and regulatory changes to address workplace bullying. Here, she details the precursor factors to such misconduct in the workplace, the “patchwork” system of laws governing this space, and what workplaces can and must do to stamp out bullying.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with barrister at the Victorian Bar, Dr Nadia Stojanova, about her personal and professional passion for employment and industrial relations matters and how she got into such work, how she navigates said matters, why she undertook a doctorate in this space, and the state of affairs nationwide regarding workplace bullying.

Stojanova also reflects on whether the legislative and regulatory frameworks are not keeping pace with evolving workplace environments, the “patchwork” of laws, what needs to be urgently addressed, the precursor factors to bullying in the workplace, the various elements of the risk management-based workplace design her thesis promotes, whether such a design should be led by legislators and regulators or by businesses, and her optimism that Australian workplaces can adopt her strategy for addressing such misconduct.

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On top of being the GC in the healthcare sector, Nina Stamell also works as a birth doula, supporting women and their partners in the childbirth and postpartum journey. The wearing of both hats, she has discovered, has broadened her perspective on what it means to be an informed, considered in-house professional.

In this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back MyHealth general counsel and company secretary Nina Stamell to discuss her work in the healthcare sector and what she enjoys about it, what it means to be a birth doula, what she finds so meaningful about supporting women through the birthing journey and how she approaches individual cases.

Stamell also reflects on how she balances her schedule as a senior in-house professional and doula simultaneously, how lawyers can sell the undertaking of such roles on top of their in-house duties to workplace superiors, the main takeaways and transferable professional lessons from her work as a doula to her role as a GC and co sec, the importance of informed consent, finding pursuits that are meaningful and rewarding, and why she’s a better legal professional as a result of her work as a doula.

Wotton + Kearney has grown from half a dozen staff in one office to over 700 staff in 10 offices across three countries. Here, its chief executive partner discusses the BigLaw player’s growth strategy, recent Singapore expansion, sale of a minority stake to a private equity firm, AI and transformation investments, and more.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes Wotton + Kearney chief executive partner David Kearney to discuss his own journey in law, how and why W+K was founded and what its vision was from the start, its push to establish itself as a major insurance player in Australia, why it expanded into Singapore and the opportunities to be realised, as well as various practice areas it has recently moved into with appointments from BigLaw rivals.

Kearney also reflects on the firm’s sale of a minority stake to Straight Bat and why that sale made sense for the firm, transitioning from a partnership to a corporate entity, whether such a transition makes sense for all large law firms, W+K’s investment in artificial intelligence and innovation, why such evolution is so exciting, the firm’s approach to workplace and culture matters, and more.


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