With the new financial year underway, lawyers looking to expand their property portfolios or get on the property ladder should do the “smart yards”, not rest on the laurels of increased borrowing capacity, and ensure they are getting the best deal for themselves in the current market.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back Legal Home Loans director Andrew Johnson and director of sales Cullen Haynes to discuss the state of the “moveable feast” that is the Australian property market, why banks move their rates in line with the Reserve Bank, whether the start of the new financial year brings new opportunities for lawyers to be aware of, and what bankers might not be telling legal professionals about how best to get ahead.

Johnson and Haynes also delve into the good news for lawyers who have been promoted in recent times and those who run their own practices, why asking the right questions is so critical, the need to be diligent and not rest on one’s laurels, practical steps that lawyers can and should take at this juncture, meaningfully making time to do a financial wellness check, having a personal board of directors for financial matters, considerations for high-net-worth lawyers, and why if you don’t ask, you don’t get.

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The new financial year offers business owners a chance to regroup, recalibrate, and determine what comes next. Award-winning sole practitioner Claire Styles says firm leaders must take a more holistic approach to such a process to ensure better outcomes not just professionally but also personally.

In this episode of The Boutique Lawyer Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back C Legal founder and principal Claire Styles, who last year won the Sole Practitioner category at the Women in Law Awards, about what it means to design one’s life as a firm owner, why this is so important for her, taking a more existential and holistic approach to such questions, and appreciating what it means to run a small business and have a personal life at the same time.

Styles also delves into the growing number of small law firm owners taking the approach she espouses, the practical steps to take and questions to ask in redesigning a life and business approach that makes sense to an individual practitioner, and what she looks forward to in the new financial year.

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According to one employment law partner, the tone of certain disputes between employers and employees is shifting, with issues at the executive level being fought harder and businesses looking to be more aggressive about enforcing restraints.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Hamilton Locke partner Timothy Zahara about how and why he became an employment lawyer and why he finds it so interesting, how executive disputes are becoming harder to settle, how the mainstreaming of psychological risks and a broad sense of burnout is contributing to such disputes, the perfect storm of executives feeling burnt out and no oversight of their output, and the broader implications for businesses and firms in navigating such executive-level disputes.

Zahara also delves into the evolving nature of post-employment restraints and how and why there is increased aggression in this space right now, the potential “chilling effect” of such restraints, whether businesses are watching the non-compete debate in the United States and acting accordingly, whether the newfound aggression is a result of post-pandemic environmental trends, what businesses can be doing moving forward to better protect their interests while not constraining employees, what constitutes good leadership moving forward, and what trends might be on the horizon.

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