CEOs take the stage to raise funds for Women’s Legal Service
By Lauren Croft|18 May 2021
Ten of Brisbane’s prominent chief executives and executives performed for a good cause last week at the annual Dancing CEOs competition.
The event raised over $500,000 to help victims of domestic violence and saw a cast of distinguished Queensland CEOs don their dancing shoes and take to the stage.
This year, the competitors were: Jamie Shine, Women Lawyers Association of Queensland Dr Dinah Blunt, St Vincent’s Northside Hospital Caralee Fontenele, Collective Family Law Marguerite O Sullivan, Yugen Love Andrew Reid, Icon Group Lorilie Cunningham, Investor and business mentor
Australian legal tech platform partners with new investors to triple funding
By Lauren Croft|18 May 2021
An Australian legal tech platform has partnered with leading organisations to ensure a funding increase of $2.5 million.
Josef, a no-code software platform, has just announced a $2.5 million funding round led by Sydney’s Carthona Capital as well as US investor The LegalTech Fund. This round has more than tripled Josef’s total funding, bringing it from $1 million to $3.5 million.
The legal tech platform enables lawyers and legal professionals to streamline their tasks, including lawyer-client interactions, sending emails, generating legal documents and providing legal guidance and advice. Users can automate document drafting, build bots to handle client interviews, triage paperwork or execute NDAs and instantly generate personalised documents, from letters to contracts.
GCs must ‘authentically speak’ about D&I journeys
By Jerome Doraisamy|18 May 2021
In the wake of findings that diversity and inclusion is the top priority for law departments, general counsel have a duty to drive change in the right ways.
Last week, Lawyers Weekly reported that – according to the 2021 CLOC State of the Industry report, complied by Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), together with the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and which surveyed over 200 organisations across the globe, spanning over 22 industries in 21 countries – implementing a diversity and inclusion program is the top-ranked issue in 2021 for law departments.
D&I beat out six other options for the top spot, with more than six in 10 (61 per cent) of respondents viewing it as a high priority. 27 per cent of the balance of respondents see it as a medium priority, and 12 per cent see it as a low priority.
‘Innovation is not just tech’: How young lawyers can stand out in this space
By Naomi Neilson|17 May 2021
In résumés, interviews and other networking events, the “innovation” buzzword has become more and more prevalent, so how can young lawyers use it to stand out from the rest in order to secure the best legal job? Executive director of Hive Legal breaks down innovation outside of the tech space for Protégé readers.
In an upcoming special episode of The Protégé Podcast, Hive Legal’s executive director and experience designer Melissa Lyon said she is concerned that innovation has been thrown around so much that “people don’t really know what it actually means”. Often, innovation is so connected to technology that alternatives get lost.
How one grad could make a career out of both science and law
By Naomi Neilson|17 May 2021
Right up until attending a biochemistry class, one recent graduate was faced with the possibility that she would have to give up one of her major interests in favour of law. Instead, she may have found a way to cross both over into the one legal career.
As a fresh high school student, King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) new graduate Mary Aidonopoulos was inspired by a teacher to turn her interests in science into a career. Three years later, having picked up
To Kill A Mockingbird for an English assignment, she found a new interest in the trial and arguments that made the makeshift laws.