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UPCOMING EVENTS

• Online Expert Witness Training - Friday, 14 February 2025 at 9:00am - 4:00pm. Registration opening soon.
• The highly topical ‘How CX is being reshaped by technology’ webinar has been extremely well received, and is now live on UNSW Edge On Demand platform: https://bit.ly/3XhRBuo. Use the code ‘Presenter25’ to receive a 25% discount/ CPD accredited. 

NEWS

• Prosecutors must beware of “presumptive” analyses and that a “positive” may, in fact, be a “false positive”, writes Dr Brynn Hibbert, in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here.
• Unisearch has appointed a former in-house lawyer as its new business development manager, which coincides with the opening of their new Melbourne office. Read more here.
• The traditional approach to whiplash-associated disorder is now being challenged by a more holistic assessment, with implications for legal professionals, writes Dr Lisa N Sharwood, in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here.
• The need for tenancy law reforms is not just a response to changing rental dynamics, but a necessity, writes Dr Chris Martin, in collaboration with Unisearch. Read More here.
• Ethical use of AI ‘just a slogan’ with Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here.
• Lawyers Weekly article unpacking the role of legislation in driving decarbonisation and the critical minerals economy in Australia and globally, writes Dr Rahman Daiyan, Dr Josh Leverett, and Muhammad Haider Ali Khan in collaboration with Unisearch. Read More here.
• Recent updates to the Family Law Act 1975 will have a substantive impact on the legal profession, writes Dr Noam Peleg, in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here.
• Lawyers Weekly LawTech Talks Podcast: Implications of AI moving forward with Host Jerome Doraisamy joined by Sparke Helmore Lawyers partner Dalvin Chien, UNSW Senior Lecturer and Unisearch expert Dr Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson produced in partnership with Unisearch. Listen to the Podcast here.
• The evolving implications of Australia's modern slavery laws with Professor Justine Nolan, Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here.
• How to make hybrid work, work with Professor Karin Sanders, Professor of HRM and Organisational Psychology, School of Management and Governance, UNSW and Dr Andrew Dhaenens, Lecturer in School of Management and Governance, UNSW in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here.
• How lawyers can advise victims of ‘cancel culture’ with defamation law barrister Kieran Smark SC, First Impressions principal Paul Blanket, and Professor Valentyna Melnyk of the UNSW Business School in collaboration with Unisearch and UNSW Edge. Read more here.
• The implications of quantum computing and the law with UNSW Professor Andrea Morello in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here. 
• Expert commentary on whether expert evidence is ‘reliable,’ ‘valid,’ or just ‘expert.’ With UNSW Emeritus Professor D Brynn Hibbert and Professor Gary Edmond in conjunction with Unisearch. Read more here.
• The Rise of Regulatory Co-design and the Law UNSW Professor Dr Rob Nicholls in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here.
• The Implications of a Digital Australian Dollar with UNSW Professor's Heng Wang and Deborah Healey in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here. 
• The NSW government will move to ban dark roofs as part of its push to deliver more sustainable housing and reach its target of net zero emissions by 2050. Unisearch was delighted to oversee experts for the ‘Cool Roof Project,’ in conjunction with UNSW academics, including Professor Mat Santamouris, Dr Samira Garshasbi, Dr Jie Feng, Samaneh Arasteh, Dr Riccardo Paolini, Dr Afroditi Synnefa, Dr Shamila Haddad, Kai Gao, Professor Deo Prasad AO FTSE, Associate Professor Lan Ding and Associate Professor Paul Osmond. Read more here.
• Data Privacy and the Law with UNSW Professor's Lyria Bennett Moses and Scott Sisson in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here. 
• The Ups and Downs of Flexible Working with Malika Chandrasegaran, Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, Dr Alice Orchiston, Unisearch expert at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW, and Professor Pamela Hanrahan, Unisearch expert and Professor at the Faculty of Business, UNSW in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here. 
• The Trends Reshaping Legal Workplaces with Malika Chandrasegaran, Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, Dr Alice Orchiston, Unisearch expert at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW, and Professor Pamela Hanrahan, Unisearch expert and Professor at the Faculty of Business, UNSW in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here. 
• Top 10: Updating the Profession’s Newest Lawyers with Malika Chandrasegaran, Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, Dr Alice Orchiston, Unisearch expert at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW, and Professor Pamela Hanrahan, Unisearch expert and Professor at the Faculty of Business, UNSW in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here. 
• ‘We Can’t Just Pretend That Nothing Has Changed’ with Malika Chandrasegaran, Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, Dr Alice Orchiston, Unisearch expert at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW, and Professor Pamela Hanrahan, Unisearch expert and Professor at the Faculty of Business, UNSW in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here. 
• Produced in partnership with Lawyers Weekly - Some remarkable insights from an esteemed panel of industry leaders and Unisearch experts about succeeding in the ‘new normal’ amongst the myriad changes to daily legal practice. Listen to the Podcast here.
• The Great 'Known Unknowns'. Climate Change in the Law with Professor Andrew Pitman, Unisearch expert and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at UNSW in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here. 
• When Awareness isn't Enough. Sexual Harrassment in the Law with Professor Jan Breckenridge, Unisearch expert, Head of School of Social Sciences and Co-convenor of the Gendered Violence Research Network in collaboration with Unisearch. Read more here.
• Unisearch experts, Emeritus Professor John Carter, Professor Mark Hoffman and Professor Stephen Foster's findings in a government-ordered investigation into one of Sydney’s biggest apartment projects have the potential to “send shock waves across the state’s construction industry.” Read more from ABC here.
• 6 Tips to Help Legal Practices Mitigate New Stressors. Conjoint Professor Michael Hazelton, Unisearch expert in collaboration with Barbara Kougellis, Manager Unisearch. Read more here.
• Law Firms Must Be More Adaptive and Responsive. Read more here.
• The New World of Virtual Order with Unisearch expert and business adviser, Adriana Cecere. Read more here.
• The True Value of Cultivating Trust. Read more here.
   

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