⏳ 3 min read Looking for a thrilling page-turner this year? Check out this book by Kimberley Motley on her time as a lawyer in Afghanistan.
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Disrupting law + lessons for now
⏳ 4 min read This week, a little dose on the future of law and some important takeaways about what lawyers need to be doing right now.
The Ritual of Time | Drinking coffee in Mostar
⏳ 4 min read Let’s drop by a little place where time stops. Where drinking coffee is a meditative ritual. Welcome to the land of Bosnian coffee. And there is much we can learn from the experience.
LB Travels: Melbourne | Food (and drink) for thought
⏳ 7 min read This week, we’re in Melbourne for some cross-disciplinary musings through Science Gallery Melbourne’s DISPOSABLE pop-up. It’s where law meets… the war on waste.
Chat with Matthew Taylor
⏳ 15 min read Matthew is the co-founder and managing director of MET Designs, a social enterprise that aims to transform lives through education. He is also a policy manager at the Victorian Government and a member of the Global Shapers Community (an initiative of the World Economic Forum).
LB Travels: To the cinema, we go!
⏳ 2 min read This month, on the theme of Travel x Law, we take a peek at highlights from the 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival, also known as MIFF.
Chat with Amy Nhan
⏳ 13 min read Amy is an employment lawyer (by day) and Founder & CEO of Art by Ames (during all other hours when she’s not lawyering)! As a modern calligrapher and creative entrepreneur at heart, Amy has an active social media presence on LinkedIn and Instagram.
Why lawyers need to learn how to invest
⏳ 5 min read Lawyers, in general, are terrible with money because they are so time-poor. It is a real issue because you end up working a lot, but not enjoying the fruits of your (very hard) labour. Here are some things I wish I had more insight into when I was working in the corporate law world.
Read this book. It might change your life.
⏳ 8 min read There are a handful of books that I’ve found positively earth-shattering. One of them is Mindset, by Professor Carol Dweck, a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.
Thinking, Fast and Slow for Lawyers (Part 3)
⏳ 11 min read In this final instalment, we look at risk-taking, the perils of memory and how we love humans more than robots (except for Pepper the robot above).