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How these firms are enhancing client connectivity
By Emma Ryan|11 April 2021
Two nationals and a global law firm have weighed in on how the pandemic saw a change in how they interacted with clients, and whether that approach is here to stay.
Speaking to Lawyers Weekly on the concept of how COVID-19 has shifted the business of law, Maddocks chief executive David Newman, Hall & Wilcox managing partner Tony Macvean, and Herbert Smith Freehills Australian executive partner Andrew Pike each spoke about how the pandemic, in many ways, brought them closer to clients.
“The shared human experience of dealing with a pandemic at home, often surrounded by family members and pets, has created in many cases stronger bonds beyond the lawyer-client relationship,” Mr Newman said.
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Fair Work Act will be amended to allow employers to summarily dismiss perpetrators of sexual harassment in the workplace, and the Fair Work Commission (FWC) will be able to issue stop orders to directly address sexual harassment, as part of the federal government’s response to the landmark [email protected] report.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General Michaelia Cash said on Thursday the government would accept all of the report’s 55 recommendations either “wholly, in part, or in principle” and introduce changes before the next budget to simplify and streamline sexual harassment legislation.
While further details are expected to be made available soon about how the government plans to address each of these recommendations, it has committed to a number of key amendments to the
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