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Fashion no-no! Fashion Nova faces costly consequence for cherry picking customer reviews
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The future is now – e-signatures, e-witnessing and e-meetings permitted permanently as updates to Corporations Act come into effect
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Chef’s Choice’s misleading conduct: Nothing vanilla about ACCC’s decision to penalise HBC Trading Australia
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5 Ways Your Lawyer Is Costing You Time And Money
Most of you will have noticed at some time or another, how lawyers can cost more than you ever thought possible. So much so that many of our clients, when they come to us, have a distrust of lawyers in general. There is good reason for this, and it goes further than just their bill. There are ways that the legal profession operates that seem geared up to cost you time and money. Here are a few of the common things to look out for.
The Problems With Paying Your Lawyer By The Hour
There are ways that the legal profession operates that seem geared up to cost you time and money. Here are a few of the common things to look out for.
3 Questions To Ask Your Current Lawyer
So you have got yourself a lawyer, but you have a niggling feeling that things are not working as they should. What can you do? There are a few good questions you can ask that will help to develop the relationship with, and get you better results from, your lawyer. It can also help you sort out whether they are the type of lawyer that wants those things also.
Long awaited relief for companies as electronic signing now permitted (again)
In a technology-driven world, it has become increasingly out of date to have to sign documents in ‘wet ink’ in favour of electronic signatures. Despite many of us ‘WFH’ under mandatory lockdown restrictions, these antiquated legal requirements for physical document signing have burdened many companies trying to carry on business as usual.
