Top 10 stories for in-house lawyers in 2020
By Jerome Doraisamy|15 December 2020
In what has been a roller-coaster year for corporate legal professionals, readers have been most attuned to bread and butter content: salaries, workplace and wellness issues, and collaboration with external providers.
An op-ed penned by Lawrence Lau, in-house counsel of Lawyers Weekly’s parent company, Momentum Media, delves into the myriad challenges that will face legal counsel day in, day out, and offers practical guidance for those aspiring to such roles as to how best to manage the workload.
During the height of this year’s bushfire season, Lawyers Weekly spoke with in-house lawyer and NSW Rural Fire Service volunteer Karina Veling about the importance of such community work, and how it has provided her with unique insights into her duties as a corporate lawyer and the obligations incumbent upon such professionals to serve the community around them.