The top 10 common mistakes to avoid when selling or merging your legal practice
Many of my clients have achieved great satisfaction in building profitable practices from humble beginnings, often dealing with challenging circumstances along the way. This article outlines the top 10 common mistakes to avoid when selling or merging your legal practice.
Health Alert - Voluntary Assisted Dying laws passed by Victorian Parliament
Assisted dying legislation has successfully passed the Victorian Parliament after marathon sitting sessions by both the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. The legislation will allow people suffering intolerable pain to obtain access to voluntary assisted dying from 2019.
Planning Alert - Is a Cultural Heritage Management Plan required?
VCAT decision has important implications for permit applications near Port Phillip Bay and near Victoria’s coastal waters.
Workplace Relations Alert - Fair Work Commission supports unpaid Family and Domestic Violence Leave
On 3 July 2017, the majority of the Full Bench handed down its decision, forming the preliminary view that it is necessary for all Awards to provide for unpaid family and domestic violence leave.
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RK Health Insights 4 April 2017
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New compulsory dispute resolution process for Domestic Building disputes coming into effect on 26 April 2017
Conciliation of domestic building disputes prior to VCAT proceedings will be compulsory from 26 April 2017.
Workplace Relations Alert
New mandatory wording for Notices of Employee Representational Rights: Get the wording right, or start again
Employers must provide employees who will be covered by a proposed enterprise agreement with a Notice of Employee Repres...
Disability Alert
Preventing and responding to abuse: an ongoing compliance obligation and mission for the disability sector
Allegations of abuse in the disability sector are of great concern and interest to the public. Despite recent public inq...
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Do you own buildings or infrastructure? Proposed changes to Security of Payment legislation
Happening Now - National Review of Security of Payment Legislation
The top 10 common mistakes to avoid when selling or merging your legal practice
Many of my clients have achieved great satisfaction in building profitable practices from humble beginnings, often deali...
Law Report
New child abuse legislation passes Parliament
Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the Retirement Housing Sector
The Legislative Council’s Legal and Social Issues Committee released its report on the Inquiry into the Retirement Housi...
Workplace Relations Alert
Family Violence Leave: Providing organisational support to employees experiencing family violence
In recent years a national dialogue about family violence has taken place in Australia.
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