A book currently doing the rounds at CCH Australia is “The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book” by Professor Sherman Young. Sherman is something of an expert on new media and the impact it is having on the book and the publishing industry. These being topics of some interest at CCH, Legal Editor in [...]

Regular IntelliConenct users may have noticed a few changes over the past few weeks.  While most folks were away on holiday over the new year, the IntelliConnect team were busy adding some new features.  Here’s a look at what they were up to: Search Results Scanning through a list of search results is now easier thanks to the inclusion [...]

While most of us enjoyed some time off over Christmas and New Year a small team of dedicated editors, production and procurement staff, customer service managers and printers were working hard on the CCH end of year book program. The book program is an intensive period where annual and first editions of most of our key [...]

The Salvation Army Raffle is a staple of the CCH festive calendar, right up there with the annual Christmas party and the masses of tinsel festooning team areas. “It’s a great tradition here at CCH” says long-time organiser of the raffle, Graham Clayton. “It’s been going at least 10 years”, he guesses, scratching his head. It’s [...]

We recently held our second Innovation Cafe at CCH.  Once every six weeks we conduct a coffee, croissants and creativity session in the CCH Australia office in Sydney. All staff are invited and those who are interested come along to participate in a creativity-boosting workshop or to hear an external speaker. Last week we invited along [...]

Accurate. Authoritative. Relevant. At CCH, we say we are but how do we know if this is really true? Simple - ask our customers! Since 2006, CCH has surveyed customers across the Asia Pacific region in order to find out what they think about our products and associated services, as well as their perception of CCH in [...]

Exactly one year has passed since the commencement of new law allowing separating de facto couples the same legal stance and processes through the federal family court system as married couples. Judicial officers have been grappling with interpreting new legislation, practitioners have been testing and trying different ways of drafting orders and the CCH family [...]

Reviews of CCH titles are always welcome, particularly when they are published in respected journals such as the Monash University Law Review. So it was a nice surprise to come across Karen Wheelwright’s review of “McCallum’s Top Workplace Relations Cases” in the latest edition of the MonLR. “McCallum’s Top Workplace Relations Cases” examines the facts, reasoning [...]

Last week the wise and lovely Jessica Hobson asked me for 300* words on what 2010 might bring for legal publishing. After vainly scratching around for something profound, I have resorted to the favourite tool of the hack columnist: the list. So here we go: the top three tens for two thousand and trend, or something [...]

What’s been happening recently at CCH? Well, some major surveys have been carried out which really keep our Business Intelligence team busy. In September the annual “Your Say” Employee feedback survey was sent to all CCH employees across the Asia Pacific region and North America, Canada and the UK. We also recently completed the second [...]