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Premium Content Subscriber only A Queensland womans dreams to travel with her husband or even lift her grandchildren for a hug have been crushed as she was bound to a wheelchair after spinal surgery she claims went horribly wrong. Jennifer Arnold, from Caboolture, is now suing her surgeon for more than $3 million. The 60-year-old said no amount of money could compensate for the physical and psychological pain she endured since a lumbar fusion on October 22, 2018. "It is devastating to find ...

1. It enhances the flavours and aromatics of the wine by exposing it to oxygen; 2. It decants the sediments and enables them to be largely removed from the wine; and 3. It enables any cork particles to be removed (obviously this is less of an issue if your wine is closed with a screw cap!). One of the most common problems encountered with older bottles of red wine is an aroma of rotten eggs or struck match that can be encountered when first opened. This unpleasant smell is a sign of the pr...

Boutique firm flags ‘alarming biases’ in psychological workplace compensation claims By Emma Ryan|15 April 2021 An Australian boutique law firm has urged the Queensland government to look into its compensation system, after research showed a great proportion of claims are rejected if they have psychological aspects. Travis Schultz & Partners has released the findings of its six-month investigation into compensation applications, which derived data through requests for information (RFI) from...

The Boutique Lawyer Show: Ensuring your firm doesn’t fail By Robyn Tongol|16 March 2021 The overwhelming majority of Australian legal practices are boutiques and sole practitioners. Given how many businesses (in all industries) do not survive the first few years, it is incumbent upon legal business owners to take steps to guarantee success. On this episode of The Boutique Lawyer Show, host Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Travis Schultz & Partners managing partner Travis Schultz to discuss the p...

Premium Content The moment the car landed, Dinesh Palipana knew he would never walk again. To this day, he says he is unable to find words for the horror he felt at the time. "Its like when you get some unexpected terrible news … I felt like I was choking," he says. Dr Palipana suffered a spinal injury and developed quadriplegia when his car aqua planed and flipped near the Brisbane Gateway on January 31, 2010. Despite enduring years of trauma after a life changing car crash, Dinesh Pali...

Building trust with your clients begins by building trust with your own people, your internal clients. According to studies on the application of emotional intelligence in the workplace by Sheffield University, when it comes to improving productivity and performance, people management is three times as important as research and development and six times more important than business strategy. And, in the oft-quoted (at least by me!) words of Peter Drucker, "Organisational culture eats strateg...

Will sommeliers have to retrain their palates if tannic styles of red are no longer needed to cut through the fat of a highly marbled wagyu sirloin? Will revered vintages of Grange and Hill of Grace Shiraz be destined to accompany a Tasmanian cheese platter rather than a plate of twice cooked beef spare ribs? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not opposed to a vegetarian meal from time to time, and I do enjoy a spinach and ricotta ravioli as much as an Italian nona …. but, if we all become ...

From paper pusher, receptionist and volunteer, this senior associate is living proof that lawyers-to-be can take alternative pathways and still end up in their dream careers.

In Australia, there are more than 160 different varietals grown on vineyards across the country. Still, that number is growing year by year as winemakers look to satisfy the consumers insatiable desire for something novel. Here are four varietals that you may not have tried but could become your "go-to" drop. Soave Soave might seem difficult to pronounce, but this Italian white is a wine with a future. Its probably similar in weight and style to pinot grigio and is a crisp, fresh white wine...

If you’re of my persuasion and a keen student of restaurant wine lists, you will probably already know the results of the 2020 Wine List of the Year Awards. It is a set of gongs awarded by Gourmet Traveller Wine to the venues around the country with the best of the best range of wines on offer. Last year’s judging started before Covid-19 wreaked havoc with the trade of restaurateurs across the globe so by the time the accolades were bestowed on the winners, their lists may well have ...