Hate Your Job? Try These Survival Skills. The New Bachelor of Arts? Why Do Only 52% of JD & LLB “General” Grads Qualify as Lawyers? | Firm Spy. Hilary Charlesworth: How Universal is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Attract Home Job Clients with an IKEA Gestalt. Sometimes, the transition from your mom’s basement to a more professional office with hot tub, bar, and a vending machine can be a bit hard to do. Sure, you could coffice sporadically from Starbucks as a transition, but there are better alternatives for the full professional office experience.
While many new firms shop at IKEA for furniture and accesssories, most firms stop there and don’t extend the IKEA gestalt to other areas of their practices—including officing at IKEA. That’s too bad. IKEA makes money by buying things in bulk and leaving it up to the consumer to cart things home and build them using wordless instructions and tiny tools. It’s not a tough leap to apply it to your practice, especially to help all the DIY folks who like to practice law as a hobby or buy legal documents at a supermarket. Start Slow It may be exciting to set up shop in a corner of an IKEA store, especially when the Leksvik desk has that “new look” smell and feel. Rename Practice Areas Splurge for Meals C. Client Intake is Critical to Solo Success. Starting your own solo practice can be an exciting and overwhelming endeavor (just ask Josh). Things like marketing, a sudden loss of confidence in your legal abilities, and effective time management can easily derail a day or even a week. The multitude of responsibilities can also lead to less focus on a critical element of a successful solo attorney: client intake.
Your voice is the first impression According to my unscientific math, at least half of all solo attorneys answer their own phone. That means their voice, their demeanor, and their patience (or lack thereof) will set the tone immediately. If you are overwhelmed and crabby, that will come across to the potential client. I have a simple rule: if I am in the middle of something important or if I am crabby, I won’t answer my phone. Sure, there is a danger that the client will call someone else, or think that I can’t/won’t answer my phone.
Be an active listener and pay attention to details. Google Translate. Allens Arthur Robinson: Publication: Focus: The Independent Media Inquiry: enforced self-regulation for media? Focus: The Independent Media Inquiry: enforced self-regulation for media? 7 March 2012 In brief: The recommendations of The Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Media and Media Regulation, if enacted, are profound. The Report proposes the establishment of a new independent statutory body, the News Media Council, that would have jurisdiction over news media organisations, whether print, online, radio or television. The new regulator would have power to require a news media organisation to publish an apology, correction or afford a right to reply. Partner Ian McGill (view CV) and Lawyers Maryann Muggleston and Amy Dobbin report on the analysis and recommendations in the Report.
How does it affect you? Introduction Structure of the Report Given the short time frame, the authors have produced a report of enormous value to all interested in Australia's news media and the essential role of a free press. The Report: identification of the problems The options for reform Cost of reform Next steps. Human Rights Law Centre. News The evidence is in: the Charter of Human Rights is working for all Victorians 9 March 2012 A collection of case studies that illustrate the many benefits delivered by Victoria’s Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities has been published by the Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC). The HRLC’s Ben Schokman said the 101 case studies – taken from the various submissions made to the Victorian Government’s 2011 Review of the Charter – paint an overwhelming picture of an effective and efficient Charter that delivers tangible benefits to all Victorians.
“To see all of the case studies presented together for the first time really reminds you of the breadth of the Charter’s impact – it’s had a very positive effect on Victorians from all walks of life,” Mr Schokman said. Whilst the Charter has been used in a number court cases to highlight arbitrary or unjust policies and decisions, Mr Schokman said the Charter’s real strength was its ability to effect change outside of the courtroom. 2012 Constitutional Law Conference and Dinner | Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. Venue: Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales Organisation: Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law A major conference on constitutional law, the eleventh in a series, was held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Friday 17 February 2012. The event was organised by the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law with the support of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law.
The conference focused on developments in the High Court and other Australian courts in 2011 and beyond. The conference was followed by dinner at NSW Parliament House, hosted by NSW Attorney-General, the Hon Greg Smith, SC. Brochures [ General] and [ Academic] now available. Papers Assistant Professor Rosalind Dixon, University of ChicagoAfter Momcilovic: The State of Play David Hume, Australian Government SolicitorWotton v Qld - Political Speech on Palm Island Professors Andrew Lynch and George Williams, University of New South Wales The High Court on Constitutional Law: The 2011 Statistics. Can You Make a Valid Will on Twitter? - lexawkward. Costa and Another v The Public Trustee of NSW [2008] NSWCA 223 (17 September 2008) You are here: AustLII >> Databases >> Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal >> 2008 >> [2008] NSWCA 223 [Database Search] [Name Search] [Recent Decisions] [Noteup] [Download] [Context] [No Context] [Help] Last Updated: 17 September 2008 CITATION: Costa and Another v The Public Trustee of NSW [2008] NSWCA 223 HEARING DATE(S): 11 July 2008 JUDGMENT DATE: 17 September 2008 PARTIES: Alexander COSTA (First Appellant) Doreen Leonie COSTA (Second Appellant) THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF NSW (Respondent) JUDGMENT OF: Hodgson JA Ipp JA Basten JA LOWER COURT JURISDICTION: Supreme Court - Equity Division LOWER COURT JUDICIAL OFFICER: Windeyer J LOWER COURT DATE OF DECISION: 12 November 2007 LOWER COURT MEDIUM NEUTRAL CITATION: Alexander Costa & anor v The Public Trustee in the Estate of Robert Costa aka Wayne Geary Coaster [2007] NSWSC 1271 COUNSEL: L J ELLISON SC (Appellants) P BLACKBURN-HART SC (Respondent) CATEGORY: Principal judgment Alexander COSTA and Another v THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF NSW (Per Ipp JA)
Blogs. Occupy Woo Street. King John, modelling his Magna Carta hair I’m not the man to give you learned commentary on the Court of Appeal’s judgment in the Occupy LSX eviction case. I don’t think there’s much call for the in house view on public law issues. I am, however, absolutely the man to poke fun at Paul Randle-Jollliffe. Here are paragraphs 29-31 of the Occupy LSX judgment: 29.
I’m rather fond of the dry manner in which the judiciary respond to “esoteric arguments”. One wonders what “a Magna Carta heir” might be, if such a concept existed. On the other hand, this suggestion from Adam Wagner makes just as much sense: An insistence on the currency of thirteenth century charters is, of course, a trope of the Freeman on the Land woo theory.
Many of those FOI requests allege bias and fraud in the administration of family law, which is an area where we have seen Freemen and their fellow-travellers before. It is doubtful, however, that being called “simply wrong” will deter Mr Randle-Jolliffe from his beliefs. ESPI_Perspectives_56. Law Geek Down Under: Reflections on Wotton v Queensland. Earlier today I posted a summary of the High Court’s decision in Wotton v Queensland in which the High Court upheld provisions of the Queensland Corrective Services Act that made it an offence to obtain an interview from a prisoner without the written approval of the chief executive officer of the Department of Corrective Services, and authorised the imposition of conditions upon a parolee, which conditions in the case of Mr Wotton also restricted his ability to speak to the media about matters which, it was accepted, related to political and governmental affairs.
Co-incidentally, today a journalist was charged with contravening a similar provision in the NT following an interview with Bradley Murdoch (convicted of murdering Peter Falconio) conducted without the necessary approval. To begin with, there is something unsatisfactory about the way the case reached the High Court.
Bitter Lawyer. Criminal law. Asylum seekers & Refugees. Katoomba Municipal Council v The Katoomba & Leura Gas Co Ltd [1917] HCA 39; (1917) 23 CLR 292 (23 August 1917) An Oral History of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center | Politics. Salvos Legal Update: CLE Series in March, Job Opportunity, New Office and Michael Kirby | Firm Spy. One law for the rich, no law for the poor | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer. Equality before the law fails in an unequal society. Instead of one legal system, class-ridden Britain now has three. At the top, the barristers other lawyers most admire have escaped the constraints of the nation state and chase multimillion pound briefs from the global plutocracy. The downwardly mobile members of the squeezed middle find the costs of going to law cripple them.
And at the bottom, the coalition has decided the rule of law no longer covers the poor. Educated readers of the Observer are unlikely to experience the contempt with which bureaucrats treat the inarticulate. Advisers at law centres tell me that they spend most of their working day trying to persuade the state to do what it was meant to do in the first place. The government's abolition of legal aid for whole categories of cases is a direct assault on the essential notion that one law covers us all. They may have a good case. Even a hacked-back state ought to deal with the individual justly.