You probably won't clear every matter before you finish for the year, but that is okay, give yourself permission to leave some things for January. Before you close the laptop, use this reset guide to set yourself up for the New Year. Capture what matters, choose your first steps and give yourself a better chance of taking a proper break.

Finding out you’ve been made redundant can feel very personal, and navigating the emotional experience – as well as practical next steps – is far from easy. By now, economic shocks, pandemics and disruption from AI have meant most lawyers have felt the impact of redundancy firsthand, either personally or as part of far smaller teams told to ‘do more with less.’ Prior to her role as the College of Law’s National Careers Strategist, Ruth Beran spent years as a career coach, focused on outplacement. This saw her help a number of senior lawyers navigate the fraught emotional waters following redundancy.

Tasman Ash Fleming, barrister, nationally accredited mediator (AMDRAS), and adjunct lecturer at the College of Law, has decades of experience in commercial and wills and estates litigation, formal training in negotiation at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, and a practice that spans both advocacy and mediation. He is well placed to explain how Victoria built one of Australia's most developed mediation cultures, why it works, and what it genuinely demands of the practitioners operating within it.

The ‘Best Practice: Family Law Tips by Registrars for Practitioners’ is a podcast series where judges and registrars from the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia slip out from behind the bench to share practical insights observed from their unique view of family law across Australia

Discover how Oliver Morrisey advanced his legal career with a Master of Laws in Wills and Estates, building specialist expertise, growing his practice and achieving long term success.

Discover how Vicky used a double major in Business Law and Property Law to accelerate her legal career, build specialist expertise and deliver stronger outcomes for clients.

NSW is transitioning to a fully digital survey plan process, and while the reforms are primarily directed at surveyors, they carry significant downstream implications for lawyers, particularly in relation to documents that accompany plans such as section 88B instruments.

Remote wills can be a useful tool. Justice McMillan in the Victorian Supreme Court authority Re Curtis gave guidance on the requirements of the remote execution procedure under s8A of the Wills Act 1997 (Vic). Tasman Ash Fleming, barrister and nationally accredited mediator (AMDRAS) and adjunct lecturer at the College of Law, provides commentary on this significant case.

Two LLM graduates. Now lecturers on the program that shaped their careers. Hear their stories and find out where postgraduate study could take you.

Read how postgraduate study helped emerging family lawyer Cody McFarlane build practical expertise, confidence and professional judgement through a Master of Laws.