Welcome to the June edition of Heresay. Our quarterly newsletter, which offers helpful advice and hints from industry professionals.
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Your performance in a courtroom can have a powerful affect on the mood of a jury. With the right tools you can create a mood or emotional state of anger, empathy, or pity. Alternatively you may want the jurors to view everything in a very logical, detached way.
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On Mother’s Day 2009, the Australian government announced that paid parental leave would be introduced from January 2011. Australia is one of only two countries— United States is the other—that has up until recently failed to offer a universal provision of paid maternity or paternity leave.
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As lawyers, we venture into complex fields of interest including medicine, engineering and insurance and we ask a jury or a judge to follow us there. Each field has innumerable standards, customs, principals, rules and regulations. But, only a small portion of this material is actually relevant to the dispute.
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Shine Lawyers has announced the appointment of Jodie Willey to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Her elevation to the top job caps off a busy twelve months for the thirty two year old, who found time to become a first time mother while also playing a pivotal role in the firm’s rapid growth.