Here are 7 tips to train your lawyer to help you with your legal experience.
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We’ll try to make your time at work as painless as possible.
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Our fingers are firmly crossed for Kara Thomson who is a finalist for the 2023 Leneen Forde AC WLAQ Woman Lawyer of the Year.
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This article will help you understand psychological injury claims and guide you through the process.
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Records such as incident reports, training documents, risk assessments and safe work method statements are crucial to an employer’s ability to defend claims for damages by injured workers.
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This year marks 20 years since I was admitted as a solicitor. I was reflecting on some of the things I wish I knew when I started my career. After being admitted in 2003, it was a slow start … but it has been a great journey.
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I dread the inevitable ‘so, what do you do?’ question at functions when I meet new people. I often make a pact with myself that I’ll just say I work in an admin role. Of course, that never happens, and I always end up confessing I’m a lawyer.
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At around 8 am I open my laptop at home while wearing casual clothes and sipping coffee bought from the café down the road. Like many workers’ compensation lawyers, my first port of call is to check emails and after I’m satisfied there’s nothing urgent, I start my tasks for the day.
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Should workers take responsibility for their own actions when they’re injured at work? Well, that depends. In this article, we’ll discuss contributory negligence in the employment context.
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Dropped jaws, gasping, head shaking and wide eyes. This is sometimes the reaction of employers when we tell them our assessment of damages in a worker’s claim for damages.
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As a firm, there’s nothing we like more than giving back where we can.
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Job opportunity at Hughes & Lewis Legal | We’re interested in hearing from personal injury lawyers looking for a different approach to practising law.
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We believe all our people at Hughes and Lewis Legal are super-stars, but today we’d like to acknowledge Kara Thomson who has been appointed President of the Queensland Law Society in 2022.
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Hughes and Lewis Legal presented a defendant lawyer’s perspective of workplace psychiatric injuries at the Australian Lawyers Alliance conference in Brisbane.
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We’re pleased our team – Torts Illustrated – raised over $2,100 for the River to Rooftop fundraiser that will support the good work of the Women’s Legal Service Qld.
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Meet Boots the English Staffordshire terrier.
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You've received a workers' compensation damages claim from one of your workers – what do you need to know and what can you do to minimise the risk of it happening again?
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It’s often difficult to tell what the effect of pre-existing injuries are on a damages claim – particularly when they include earlier injuries to the same injury site. This was a key issue in the recent case Pearce v Prescare [2020] QDC 149 when a nurse re-injured her hip at work.
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As a young legal startup, we are so grateful we were in the right place at the right time — technological advances enabled us to set up a practice we would never have been able to imagine ten years ago.
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