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Big Data & Intellectual Propert: Strategic Alignment for Commercial Success
We are currently experiencing a ‘Big Data revolution’. Technology and smart devices are enabling us to create, store, share, and use data in ways previously never imagined. At the same...Read more
Karen Hallenstein
Supervising Counsel, Intellectual Property, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia
What is Metadata?
Put shortly, metadata is “data about data”. Unfortunately, that definition tends to invite more questions than it may answer. The question of what constitutes metadata and how it is retained...Read more
David Carrington
Corporate Counsel, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Australia
Alida Vandewiele
Legal Counsel, Bombora Technologies, Australia
The Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis ('GFC') Continue to Present an Interesting Challenge for Company Secretaries to Navigate.
The impacts of the Global Financial Crisis (“GFC”) continue to present an interesting challenge for company secretaries to navigate.
In the wake of the GFC, an ever-changing and uncertain corporate governance...Read more
Tim Hartin
Group Company Secretary, Westpac Banking Corporation, Australia
Rachel Saffron
Company Secretary, Westpac Banking Corporation, Australia
Suzanna Dabski
Company Secretary, Westpac Banking Corporation, Australia
These things are sent to try us: In-house Counsel and Pre-contractual Agreements – the Australian Experience
This paper explores various types of pre-contractual agreements commonly encountered, and the particular features of each. It analyses where Australian law draws the line of enforceability over such arrangements by...Read more
Peter Quinlivian
Senior Legal Counsel, Bae Systems Australia Defence Pty, Australia
Online Privacy - No Longer Playing Catch-up?
It may come to pass that 2013 will be regarded as the year that the general public sat up and took notice of online privacy.
The Australian Information Commissioner advised...Read more
David Carrington
Corporate Counsel, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Australia
The Cloud - Is There a Silver Lining?
Cloud computing in its various forms is well and truly entrenched in the global IT world, despite still being comparatively in its infancy. The range of offerings through the cloud...Read more
Guy Betar
Senior Legal Counsel ANZ, TIBCO Software Inc, Australia
The Rule of Corporate Counsel
Australia has seen a significant growth in the number of corporate counsel over the last 20 years. Companies continue to recognise the value of cultivating legal expertise internally, from better...Read more
Jon Downes
General Counsel and Company Secretary, Ace Group, Australia
Takeovers in Australia: What the International In-House Lawyer Might Want To Know
This paper addresses why the issue of takeovers’ regulation in Australia should be of interest to the in-house lawyer internationally, and what are some key features which the international in-house...Read more
Dr Steven Stern
Adjunct Professor, College of Law & Justice, Victoria University, Australia
Innovation Starts with Legal: How In House Lawyers can serve a Company beyond a Traditional Legal Role
Have you ever had a project that involved business issues, challenged the status quo and pushed your legal skills to the limit? You are not alone. In fact, there are...Read more
Richard Anthony
VP Managing Assistant General Counsel, CA Technologies, Australia
The Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission: Implications of a New National Regulator in Australia
After several major Commonwealth government inquiries – the the Productivity Commission: Contribution of the Non Profit Sector (2009), Henry Tax Review (2010), the Senate Economics Committee Inquiry into Disclosure Regimes...Read more
Louise Steer
In-House Counsel, Fundraising Institute Australia, Australia