National Pro Bono Day In Australia

Wonderful idea so thought we’d tell you about it ….Today is national Pro Bono Day in Australia. They write on their website National Pro Bono Day provides an opportunity to celebrate the pro bono work done by the legal and other professions. We encourage...

Lexis Nexis Offers Programme To Help Law Graduates

The Law Librarian Blog has the details on Lexis’ new programme ASPIREThey reveal that LexisNexis is offering a" very accommodating program", ASPIRE, for law school graduates who have accepted Associate positions at law firms, but 1) are experiencing a...

Not Even Orwell Could Imagine This Surveillance

There’s surveillance and there’s surveillance.. China’s authorities have taken it to the n’th degree.In a report yesterday in the LA Times detailing the trials and tribulations of  lawyer Gao Zhisheng We learn that security was so tight...

NZ Firm Directs Employees To Pro Bono Work

We’ve seen this story in a number of variations in different jursidictions… good to see firms thinking like thisThe NZ National Business Review reports… Russell McVeagh ups pro-bono work to keep lawyers busy It might not be great for the bottom line...

Is Aus Legislation Holding Back Export Growth Of Legal Services

LawFuel is running a report this morning suggesting that unnecessary regulation is holding back the export of Australian legal services…LawFuel reports that in an address to Australian Services Roundtable Summit in Canberra recently, the Chief Executive Partner...