We would like to congratulate Terri Mottershead, Executive Director for the Centre for Legal Innovation (CLI) at The College of Law Australia, who has been selected as a finalist in the Australian AI Awards 2024 in the "AI Female Leader of the Year - Enterprise" category by Momentum Media.

As cyber security becomes the domain of organised crime every Australian individual and business has become an unwilling target. Law firms are rarely early adopters of tech and yet they now face complex cyber security threats. Before you embrace your inner doomsday prepper, we caught up with Lawcover’s Legal Risk Manager, Glenda Carry, to find out how law firms are being targeted by cyber security threats, and what steps they can take to mitigate risk.

Cybersecurity, major data breaches and privacy reform are all on the table as we size up 2023.  For those who manage law firms, tightening security is top of the agenda. Here at the College of Law we have assessed the top legal practice management trends for 2023.   

To navigate a rapidly changing sector, the role of Head of Legal Operations has sprung into life. 

Legal operations has been quietly on the rise for almost a decade. In 2010, Connie Brenton, the first ever legal operations executive of Oracle, founded the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium.

Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook user data – and how it may have influenced the last American election – raised once again the issue of how well our data is protected online.

As the times change so do the threats facing the legal profession. That’s why it’s important to identify and meet these challenges head on. We asked our friends at LEAP to list the top five threats to law firm profitability and success, along with their solutions.

Sue-Ella Prodonovich of Prodonovich Advisory shares her tips for creating a solid business strategy for your law firm.