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Smarter Lawcast with Hall & Wilcox — 199 episodes
From risk to resilience: what great leadership looks like in practice
Leading through workplace transformation and disruption
Work bias and assumptions about names and accents
Reasonable management action: when employers get it right and wrong
Psychosocial hazards at work: what employers need to know and do
Balancing identity and professionalism through your name at work
Restructures and redundancies: when is a redundancy really genuine?
How can registered providers in Australia manage debt risk in aged care?
Owning your name at work and building confidence
Getting names right at work and why it signals respect
How can Australian businesses build trust with customers around privacy and data?
Property development tax: capital vs revenue rules
What’s in a name? Identity, belonging and getting it right
Tax Records - Are gifts of money from overseas taxable in Australia?
AI and legal professional privilege in Australia and the UK (Part 2)
Can Australia produce its own fuel? Inside the Cleaner Fuels Program
AI and legal professional privilege in Australia and the UK (Part 1)
Tax Records - What to consider when claiming the R&D tax incentive in Australia
What happens if your will is invalid in Australia?
Informal wills: what are they and how do you avoid them?
What are Australian courts and regulators saying about AI and legal professional privilege?
AI and legal professional privilege - Can using AI waive privilege?
Business Succession - Succession planning for family businesses: family offices, boards and values
Self-insurers in Australia - Psychological injuries at work in WA and SA
Business Succession - Succession planning: do you hold your business interests together with third parties?
Self-insurers in Australia - Psychological injuries at work in ACT and NT
Australia’s international law obligations for climate change
Business Succession - Succession planning for business owners and families: fundamentals and foundations
Self-insurers in Australia - Psychological injuries at work in Queensland
Doing Business in Australia - Spotlight on migration and employment trends
Self-insurers in Australia - Psychological injuries at work in Victoria
Doing Business in Australia - Spotlight on South East Asia
Self-insurers in Australia - Psychological injuries at work in New South Wales
Doing Business in Australia - Spotlight on the UK
Doing Business in Australia - Spotlight on the US
Navigating whistleblower obligations under the new Aged Care Act
Tax Records - What triggers a Tax Practitioners Board review and how to prepare
Cyberzone: Data, ransomware & the power of cyber injunctions
Tax Records - Section 167 assessments: Asset betterment methodology
Mergers for not-for-profits: what you need to know
Tax Records – What you need to know about state taxes in 2025
Tax Records – Building a strong tax governance framework
Cultural Inclusion Conversations - Breaking barriers in legal recruitment
Self-insurers in Australia - Injuries at work in Queensland
Empowered women - Bringing it all together
Self-insurers in Australia - Injuries at work in Western Australia and South Australia
Empowered women - The truth about binding financial agreements for women
Self-insurers in Australia - Injuries at work in the ACT and Northern Territory
Empowered women - Smart financial planning for women who want control
Self-insurers in Australia - Injuries at work in Victoria
Empowered women - Estate planning 101: What every woman needs to know
Self-insurers in Australia - Injuries at work in New South Wales
Cyberzone: Episode 2, Part 2 - Ransomware: should you pay and mandatory reporting
Cultural Inclusion Conversations - Why is diversity and inclusion good for business?
Cyberzone: Episode 2, Part 1 - Demystifying ransomware
Cyberzone: Episode 1 - Inside the response to Australia’s biggest cyber threats
Cultural Inclusion Conversations - Overcoming the bamboo ceiling
Cultural Inclusion Conversations - Why are cultural inclusion conversations important?
Trusts Matters – Trusts: lost trust deeds
Trusts Matters – Trusts: beneficiaries and rights to information
Trusts Matters: Trust disputes and trustee discretion
Trusts Matters – Trust variations: how to avoid being caught out
Spotlight on Health Regulation – Social media and advertising guidelines: guidance for health practitioners
Risk Ready: Business Restructuring – Key issues impacting the aged care sector
Risk Ready: Business Restructuring – Key issues impacting the retail industry
Spotlight on Health Regulation – Vapes and vaping: regulation in Australia
Risk Ready: Business Restructuring – Key issues impacting building and construction sector
Spotlight on Health Regulation: Medicinal cannabis – Australia’s regulatory environment
Spotlight on Health Regulation: Recent prosecutions and regulator focus
The ECM Exchange: Understanding reverse takeovers
Spotlight on Construction Law: The superintendent’s role in construction projects
The ECM Exchange: Capital raising and issue pricing restrictions for listed and unlisted funds
Navigating AML/CTF: Independent reviews of AML/CTF programs
The ECM Exchange – Cyberattacks and continuous disclosure: what ASX-listed entities need to know
Navigating AML/CTF: Risks and common failures of AML/CTF programs
The ECM Exchange: Navigating shareholder approvals and capital raising essentials
Navigating AML/CTF: Outsourcing obligations under AML/CTF rules
Tax Records – Essential tax considerations for clients on the move
Navigating AML/CTF – AML/CTF: Knowing your client
Tax Records – Navigating wage and superannuation underpayments: avoiding costly pitfalls
Navigating AML/CTF – AML/CTF: latest reforms and developments
Tax Records – New Administrative Review Tribunal: what changes will it introduce?
Becoming a Philanthropist: The joy of collective giving
Becoming a philanthropist – Having a philanthropic impact in life and beyond
Becoming a philanthropist – What is a Private Ancillary Fund (PAF) and should I set one up?
Becoming a philanthropist – Philanthropic giving: what is it and how do I do it?
Health and aged care – international perspective: Healthcare: Australia and UK trends
Health and aged care – international perspective: Life sciences: Australia and UK trends
Doing Business in Australia: tax and customs compliance
Doing business in Australia: spotlight on the US
Doing business in Australia: international wealth and cross border succession planning
Doing business in Australia: employment and migration trends
Doing business in Australia: the Foreign Investment Review Board – key takeaways for foreign investors or advisors
Spotlight on Aged Care: Insurance and risk factors facing aged care
Spotlight on Aged Care: Employment and tax issues facing the aged care sector
Spotlight on Aged Care: Restructuring in aged care
Spotlight on aged care: Aged care reforms – what is proposed and how it will impact providers
Spotlight on aged care: Mergers and acquisitions and governance issues in aged care
Building better boards and leaders – Generative AI: benefits and risks
The ECM Exchange: Key changes to the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations – draft 5th edition
Building better boards and leaders: employee fraud and corruption – part 2
The ECM Exchange: Proposed changes to wholesale client and sophisticated investor tests
Building better boards and leaders: employee fraud and corruption – part 1
The ECM Exchange: Convertible notes
Building better boards and leaders: privacy and cyber readiness
The ECM Exchange: Climate reporting and financial reports
Risk Ready: business restructuring: Professional services firms: how to restructure equity and manage owner exits – part 2
Risk Ready: business restructuring: Professional services firms: how to restructure equity and manage owner exits – part 1
Spotlight on Construction Law: Green construction and carbon emissions: a contractor’s view
Risk Ready: business restructuring – Common tax issues in business restructures
Spotlight on Construction Law: Green construction and carbon emissions: a developer’s view
Risk Ready: business restructuring – Safe harbour and insolvent trading
Risk Ready: business restructuring – When is a director personally liable for a company’s outstanding tax debts?
Building better boards and leaders – ESG insights: new risks, compliance and sustainability metrics that matter – part 2
Building better boards and leaders – ESG insights: new risks, compliance and sustainability metrics that matter – part 1
Building better boards and leaders: Boards behaving badly
Building better boards and leaders: How to build legally compliant, healthy and inclusive organisations
Building better boards and leaders: Key issues facing boards and executive leaders
Living the law grad life – Q&A with our law grads: answering our listeners’ questions
Living the law grad life – From law graduate to partner: two Hall & Wilcox career stories
Living the law grad life – Bring your whole self to work: work/life balance in the legal industry
Living the law grad life – Pro bono: giving back to the community
The ECM Exchange – Cleansing notices
New unfair contract terms regime: are you ready?
The ECM Exchange – Shareholder activism and defamation
Living the law grad life – Busting insurance myths with Matt Curll
The ECM Exchange – ESG: what listed entities need to know
Spotlight on Construction Law – Construction contracts: any quick fixes to reduce the risk of insolvency? An expert's view
The ECM Exchange: How to prepare for AGM season
Living the law grad life – Early careers recruitment: preparing for law graduate and clerkship applications and interviews
Tax Records – Cyber security and data privacy: how it could impact you
Tax Records – Australia’s individual tax residency rules – proposed changes
Spotlight on Construction Law – Construction contracts: any quick fixes to reduce risk of insolvency?
Living the law grad life: Working at Hall & Wilcox – hear from our Managing Partner
Tax Records – What to consider when selling a professional services business: part 2
Tax Records – What to consider when selling a professional services business: part 1
Living the law grad life: Working at Hall & Wilcox – meet our law grad hosts
Risk Ready: business restructuring – Business restructuring – Risks directors face when business is in financial difficulty
Risk Ready: business restructuring – Buying a distressed business – issues to consider
Risk Ready: business restructuring – Banking and corporate structuring issues for distressed businesses
Risk Ready: business restructuring – Contract flexibility
The ECM Exchange – Executive remuneration and equity plans
The ECM Exchange – Listed company acquisitions: issues for directors
The ECM Exchange: Raising capital in volatile times
Cyberzone – Cyber and identity protection: the rise and importance of ID care
Investing with purpose
Succession planning for blended families: Change of relationship status: legal issues to consider
Tax Records – Tax issues in M&A transactions: part 2
Succession planning for blended families: Superannuation and blended families
Being ESG Wise - latest developments in the UK
Tax Records – Tax issues in M&A transactions: part 1
Succession planning for blended families: Mutual wills
Silicon Valley Bank: what happened?
Cyberzone – Cyber attacks and continuous disclosure: when and what to notify the market
Tax Records – Update on section 100A and Guardian AIT decision
Succession planning for blended families: Succession planning challenges
IWD special: You can’t be what you can’t see
Tech Talks – Gender equality in the tech and startup sector: International Women’s Day special
Cyberzone – The keys to cyber insurance and systemic cyber risks
Tax Records – Demystifying the M&A process: part 2
Tax Records – Demystifying the M&A process: part 1
AI: the fifth industrial revolution? – AI: ethics and the public sector
AI: the fifth industrial revolution? – AI and copyright: an uneasy fit?
AI: the fifth industrial revolution? – AI and the legal sector: potential benefits and drawbacks
Being ESG Wise – regulatory scrutiny of greenwashing claims
Extreme weather: delays, disruptions and insurance issues for the FMCG sector
Extreme weather: legal issues – Planning issues, climate change and human rights
Being ESG Wise – anti-corruption and executive accountability
Cyberzone – Crisis communications in a cyber incident – getting it right, with Rhys Ryan, CEO of Porter Novelli Australia
Cyberzone – Cyber risk landscape with leading cyber partner Shane Bell from McGrathNicol
Being ESG Wise – A client’s story: Centuria Capital Group’s approach to ESG
Cyberzone – The Optus breach and is cyber insurance getting a bad rap?
Being ESG Wise – The EU taxonomy: ESG in Europe
Being ESG Wise – Greenwashing: what is it and should I be worried?
Being ESG Wise – What is ESG and why is it important?
Tax Records – Startups and ESOPs: seven top tips
Tax Records – Crypto, NFTs, DeFi and staking: hot topics in tax
Tax Records – Help! I’ve received a Top 500 or Next 5,000 letter from the ATO
Tax Records – ATO debt collection powers and director penalty notice regime
Doing business in Australia: Australian Customs: compliance requirements
Doing business in Australia: Australia’s dispute resolution process
Doing business in Australia: All about Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB)
Doing business in Australia: Australia's employment and visa issues
Doing business in Australia: How to enter the Australian market
Tax Records – How does tax apply to cryptocurrencies or NFTs?
Tax Records – Contractors v employees: tax risks to be aware of
Tax Records – Welcome to the danger zone: ATO guidance on section 100A
You can’t say that!: Reforms in the pipeline
You can’t say that!: Recent game changers
You can’t say that!: Responding to defamation claims
You can’t say that!: Protecting reputations
Tax Records – Why all the hype around cryptocurrencies and NFTs?
Tax Records – In the payroll tax crosshairs: is your business next?
Tax Records – Tax compliance: how do I manage my risks?
Tax Records – Pandora Papers: What are they, why should we care and what do I do if I’m named?
The changing landscape of employment law: underpayments
The changing landscape of employment law: migration
The changing landscape of employment law: flexible working
The changing landscape of employment law: mandatory vaccinations