Publications

While the business environment continues to be highly disrupted by lockdowns and remote working best practice, Company Secretaries should start looking forward to early 2022, at which point some important virtual AGM relief is set to expire. As was reported by AICD in...

The importance of being flexible and open-minded in a Company Secretary or In-House Legal Counsel role has never been more important, and events of the last year have crystalised that. That’s the key insight that was shared by Origin Energy company secretary and...

  A recent report from the Australian Financial Review (AFR) highlights news that should be of great interest to In-House Counsel, Company Secretaries, and anyone that hires them; the profession is in great demand, and that is translating to a ten per cent pay...

A new article from the Governance Institute of Australia highlights some significant upcoming changes to AGM laws, and these are regulatory changes that Company Secretary and In-House Legal Counsel need to start to prepare for now. As noted in the article, items on...

The role of the Company Secretary continues to evolve. Legal executive search firms continue to be tapped to look for a new range of skills, and the ongoing disruption to businesses is both a challenge and an opportunity for forward-thinking and innovative...

A fascinating article on Lawyers Weekly has highlighted the expanding role that data-driven metrics is having on the role of the In-house Legal Counsel team, and the way that their decisions are being made. The has broader implications for legal executive search...

Written by David Cantrick-Brooks in an article which first appeared in The Australian, December 2019. David highlights some interesting issues to consider when working in this sector. Whilst registered as charities, universities have some very unusual characteristics,...

In general terms, when there’s an economic downturn or recession, professionals become cautious about moving jobs. Job and income security becomes the priority over career development or being selective about the company that you’re working for, because there is that...

One of the key tasks in company secretary recruitment is finding innovative and progressive thinkers that understand the evolving role of the company secretary, and have the skillsets to reposition themselves in kind – even pivoting quickly at times, where the...

As we all know, 2020 has been a particularly disruptive year. Not only due to the broader economic conditions that enterprises operate under, but also within the businesses themselves, as organisations have been mandated to adopt remote working and social distancing...

One of the consequences of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the seismic shifts that it is causing to how enterprises operate, is that it is forcing a renewed look at risk and risk mitigation within the organisation. A Mercer study earlier this year found that over...

Much has been said about the impact of COVID-19 on the economy and employment. Recent statistics show that the number of unemployed in Australia has risen by 69,300 to 992,3000 in June, delivering the highest unemployment rate in Australia (7.4 per cent) since 1998....