Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network

According to this head of legal, it's "almost impossible" to have workplace excellence without also building and maintaining a good and kind team culture. Here, she unpacks how to tick all boxes.
In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back ANZ head of legal Danielle Nahum to discuss why a culture that is good and kind is not incompatible with achieving excellence, whether legal leaders are adequately focused on the need to tick all boxes, whether what constitutes excellence is evolving, and challenges standing in the way of excellence and good culture.
Nahum also reflects on how and when she learnt the need to strike the right balance between achieving excellence and creating the right kind of culture, how she looks to implement this in her own team, the importance of proactively managing such issues, identifying elements contributing to suboptimal outcomes or culture, better managing scattered workforces, better integration of team members with different cultures, and how leaders can stay calm and ensure such priorities do not fall down the to-do list.
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In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, produced in partnership with Shine Lawyers, we dive into the forces shaping Australia's class action landscape and what comes next for one of the country's leading plaintiff firms. From emerging litigation trends and the rise of big tech claims to innovation, scale and strategic growth, the conversation offers a timely look at where the market is heading and how Shine is helping lead it.

Host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Shine Lawyers Head of Class Actions Craig Allsopp about his path in law, the passion that continues to drive his plaintiff practice, and his recognition as a finalist in the class actions category at the upcoming Partner of the Year Awards. The episode also explores Shine's push to deliver class actions more efficiently through technology and smarter cost management, its investment in international mass torts, its expanding national footprint, and its campaign to attract top legal talent to its high-performing class actions team. Together, these priorities reflect a firm with strong momentum, a clear market position, and an ambitious vision for the future of class actions in Australia.
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While many lawyers may dismiss podcasting as a novelty or a waste of time, Dennis Meador argues that this mindset could not be further from the truth, with podcasting quickly becoming a game-changing tool for building authority, strengthening connections, and standing out in an increasingly competitive legal market.
In a recent episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Grace Robbie speaks with Dennis Meador, the founder and CEO of The Legal Podcast Network, who shares why podcasting is rapidly emerging as one of the legal profession's most beneficial tools, unpacks the five types of podcasts lawyers can launch, and explains why every successful podcast begins with a clear purpose and strategy. He also delves into what intentional storytelling truly looks like for lawyers and how they can master it to build stronger connections, credibility, and influence.
Meador dives into the widening gap between lawyers who are embracing podcasting and those still underestimating its power, explains how podcasting enables lawyers to build powerful "pseudo relationships" with potential clients, unpacks the tangible business and branding benefits that come with intentional storytelling, and stresses why lawyers can no longer afford to treat podcasting as an afterthought, but instead as a strategic priority for the future of their practice.
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Whether a developer, business, or user bears the onus of responsibility if an autonomous agentic AI tool makes a mistake remains an open question, on both the legislative and policy fronts. In the absence of legislative or policy guidance, such questions could cause legal and contractual headaches.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Lander & Rogers partners Matthew McMillan and Margaret Gigliotti about the advent of agentic AI and its significance, the parties who could have responsibility for mistakes made by new technologies and why, the liability concerns at play, the potential for increased disputes or contractual claims, the need for legislative and policy clarity, and the role of lawyers in ensuring best practice in the workplace and with clients until such developments come to fruition.
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There is an emerging trend whereby clients are increasingly using AI tools to prepare and negotiate a broader range of documents internally, from term sheets and employment agreements through to commercial contracts and internal governance materials, often without legal review at the earlier stages (or at all). Such a trend creates serious downstream risk, one partner argues.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back Hazelbrook Legal partner Aabid Farouk to discuss the downstream disputes risk where documents are incomplete, inconsistent, poorly negotiated or not properly tested against regulatory and enforcement realities, and how the rise of AI-enabled legal and commercial workflows is likely to drive further growth in disputes, investigations and enforcement work over time.
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