Legal and business reporting

house of cards

With Slater and Gordon’s share value fluctuating and Shine Corporate’s following suit, the viability of the listed law firm model could now be in doubt

Published in Lawyers Weekly, 2016

LAWYERS WEEKLY

Burnside: lawyers must challenge unjust laws

Dutch climate change case no roadmap for Aus

Marriage equality: It should not be taking us this long

If you could do it over again, would you still choose law?

Maddocks’ new CEO sets the record straight

E-Conveyancing is upon us

‘Til death do us part

Over the past five years, the Australian legal market has looked much like a dating scene. A whirlwind of international mergers have swept through the industry with some firms getting married, some remaining bachelors and others starting non-committal, open relationships with overseas players.

Published in Lawyers Weekly, 2016

‘It’s like they’re trying to bankrupt us’

The federal government is very proud of bulk-billing rates, citing the high percentage of services bulk-billed at every opportunity.
It’s strange, then, that the same government has allowed rebates to fall so far behind actual practice costs that 100% bulk-billing is increasingly regarded in general practice as unsustainable.
Some GP clinics are now making the difficult decision to charge gap fees this year for the first time, to keep up with rising costs and covid-related financial pressures amid stagnating rates of compensation from the MBS.
Published in The Medical Republic, July 2021

DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD

With the steady growth of pro bono practices across Australian and international law firms, it would be naive to think these benevolent enterprises do not serve the financial self-interest of the businesses.
That is not to say lawyers undertake pro bono activities for the wrong reasons; in fact, the available evidence suggests precisely the opposite. A survey conducted by the National Pro Bono Resource Centre in 2007 of 887 individual Australian practitioners showed that the top two reasons for doing pro bono work were helping the disadvantaged (90 per cent) and a sense of professional responsibility (84 per cent).

Published in Lawyers Weekly, 2015

The Medical Republic

What’s stopping GPs from offering medical abortions?
How work (cover) can make matters worse
Panic buying creates rural drug shortages
GP revenue crash in March-April revealed
Sonic’s message on rent cuts at odds with GPs’ experience
GPs stand firm on pathology rent threats
Podcast: How to roll out telehealth in just a few days
Podcast: Bushfires, floods and now this?
Podcast: IT dramas every 15 minutes – the harrowing realities of telehealth
Half GP clinics losing more than 30% of revenue: survey
How one clinic is pivoting to telehealth
Employment law and coronavirus: a guide for GPs
Telehealth billing restrictions cause financial pain
'Massive shortages': rural Australian pharmacies low on essential medications amid coronavirus