The Lawfluent Podcast

Jo, Ashurst’s Human Resources Manager, describes the firm as a collaborative, down to earth, and friendly environment for clerks.
Kimberly and James provide their advice after completing a recent Ashurst clerkship.
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Today we sit down with Tyson Manicolo - A senior criminal defence solicitor approaching 6 years post admission experience, and currently the head of Criminal Law at MMH Lawyers located in Victoria. Tyson also creates short yet high-quality case summaries on his LinkedIn.
In this episode we discuss:

• What a senior criminal defence lawyer does, and how to prepare for a successful career in criminal defence law
• How to read a case properly, find the ratio decidendi, and write a quality case note
• How to approach and communicate with vulnerable client, non-English-fluent clients, juveniles, and homeless clients failing to appear
• How criminal paralegals should support a senior solicitor and excel in their role
• The process when taking on a new matter, and how to select and brief a Barrister
• Advice for law students and junior lawyers

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The legal landscape in Australia has undoubtedly evolved procedurally in the past 2 years. Today’s guest speaker is none other than Erica Taylor, the Director of Special Projects at JADE and the Victorian Reports. This episode explores:

• What her role as "Director of Special Projects" entails
• The changing operational nature of the Australian courts in the age of COVID-19
• The most ground-breaking, bold, and transformative cases of 2021
• What we can expect from the High Court of Australia in 2022

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Australians spend in excess of $1 billion in cosmetic procedures each year according to the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery and Medicine. This figure includes beauty treatments from non-medical practitioners.
Anyone with a medical degree can advertise as a Cosmetic Surgeon.
Join Bill Madden, Special Counsel at Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers (Sydney), and frequent writer, speaker and University lecturer on civil liability medical litigation, and Justine Anderson, Associate at Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers (Sydney) and Executive Committee member of the Women Lawyers Association of NSW, as they talk about the area where medical practitioners operate, and what protections, if any, consumers currently have in the marketplace.
In this episode we discuss:

• What implications are there for the uninformed consumer given the information asymmetries in the complex delivery of surgical services?
• Do doctors have a duty to disclose to patients their qualifications or lack thereof?
• Does the duty of disclosure in Rogers v Whitaker (1992) 175 CLR 479 extend from disclosure of risks arising from the procedures to disclosure of risks arising from the lack of qualification of the doctor?
• Even if someone is trained as a surgeon under the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons programme, say a colorectal surgeon - Is there any law or regulation that requires them to not perform a breast augmentation?
• Are there any regulations or law currently that address issues of the consumer-patient lacking independent advice from their GP who usually acts as a 'gatekeeper' for referral to surgeons, and doctors' duties to shareholders of their corporate employers conflicting with their duties to their patients?
• How do you think the medical regulator the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) should approach these issues - What would a proposed regulatory framework look like?
• What are your thoughts on making some disclosures mandatory, such as doctor's qualifications and mandatory benchmarking against other practitioners who practice in the same field?
• What are some ways consumers can protect themselves from misleading advertisements on the internet?

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Uber's business has transformed urban life across the globe. As of 1 January 2022, Uber's platform powers movement in around 10,500 cities around the world. Michael Coutts' areas of practice include competition, regulatory and consumer law, having completed his Master of Laws where his dissertation analysed competition law issues associated with applying anti-fragmentation conditions to open-source software licensing agreements. Uber's Counsel Michael Coutts joins the podcast to discuss how competition law is addressing Uber's transformation of movement being a win for consumers but a loss for the gig economy, the biggest challenges facing the point-to-point transportation sector in Australia, what the aim of competition law is if it is not to protect inefficient businesses, and the tools Michael carries around in his competition lawyer tool-kit.
In this episode we discuss:

• Michael's work at Uber and the Uber journey.
• If Uber's transformation of movement is a win for consumers but a loss for the gig economy, how is competition law addressing this issue?
• What do you see is the aim of competition law if it is not to protect inefficient businesses?
• What do you see as the future of competition law and the trend in the markets?
• In your view, what are the biggest challenges facing the point-to-point transportation sector in Australia today and say, in 10 years?
• What do you like the most about working at Uber?
• What are some of the biggest problems you and your team at Uber have solved in the last two years, and how has the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to this?
• Mental health is a perennial challenge for the legal industry - What do you think that means for young people considering entering the profession, or who have recently entered the profession?
• What is one tool you always carry in your tool-kit as a competition lawyer?
• What has been the most influential resource for your career thus far?
• What is the best career advice you have ever received?

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