In the wake of voluminous change in the industrial relations space, it is critical to reflect on how such legislative updates will impact workplaces of all stripes and how both employers and employees can navigate such evolutions to working life.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back barrister Ian Neil SC to discuss the “tumultuous” past year in industrial relations reform, the myriad changes that were legislated and are coming into effect, what the response from businesses and employers has been to such change, and whether the net effect of such changes will be to drive up the cost of labour.

Neil also delves into how businesses can and should respond to the “tidal wave” of changes, why good governance has never been more essential, what the Closing Loopholes and Right to Disconnect legislation means and what its impacts might be, what might be the headline industrial relations issues to contend with in the future in light of such changes, why prudent employers will see the changes as an opportunity, what will constitute best practice moving forward, and the likely volume of work headed in the direction of legal practitioners and HR professionals.

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In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, produced in partnership with York Hamilton, we explore the upward trajectory of utilising remote talent, offshoring, and broader business automation considerations in Australia’s legal marketplace and how best legal businesses can proceed in the coming year.

Host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with York Hamilton managing partner Evan Kostopoulos to discuss the need for law firms Down Under to evolve how their businesses operate, the receptiveness to such change in recent years, ensuring your firm isn’t left behind in a rapidly shifting marketplace, the benefits of utilising remote talent, and whether law firms are seeing an urgent need to explore such options in the current climate.

Evan also reflects on the journey of York Hamilton, the business opportunities that can and will open up from offshoring, including potential revamps to business structure and objectives, how to engage with firms that are reluctant to explore offshoring, the place of tech in such conversations, how firms are faring on broader business automation matters, how the legal marketplace will continue to shift, and why offshoring and automation should excite leaders in law moving forward.

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As one who has experienced significant adversity in life, Rugare Gomo understands better than most the importance of not just authenticity and vulnerability but also the imperative to be brave and live and work according to one’s own expectations rather than what might be expected of us by others and broader society.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back Rugare Gomo, a high-performance coach, author and former lawyer, to discuss how and why he left Zimbabwe for Australia as a teenager, deciding to study and practise law and his journey in the profession, and his realisation that – personally and professionally – he needed to approach life in ways truer to his values and purpose rather than in accordance with external expectations.

Gomo details how lawyers can push back against ingrained traits and characteristics so that they can live from the heart, what went wrong in his life when he wasn’t true to himself, overcoming self-limiting beliefs and fear of asking stupid questions, how time-poor leaders can better create safe spaces for staff, how individuals can find safe spaces, how to practically start being braver and more creative, and how and why such an approach to one’s personal and professional has been beneficial for him.