Before The Money Stops: Your Early Warning Checklist
Customers rarely stop paying overnight. The warning signs usually appear months earlier: in how they pay, how they communicate and what’s shifting behind the scenes. With payment times blowing out and the ATO chasing debt hard, use our checklist to spot the signs and act before other creditors get ahead of you.
The Next Three Years Start with Listening
Q4 started with a bang (and a few roars) as Law Squared and the wider Squared Group team gathered for our annual offsite at Melbourne Zoo. With team members flying in from London, Hong Kong and across Australia, it was a privilege to have our whole team in one place for a few days of celebration, connection, reflection, and alignment on our future.
Retail Leasing Behind the Label
A new store takes more than a signed lease. The commercial deal, lease terms and store design all need to work together if a brand is going to open on time and build a network that performs. This practical 60-minute webcast is built for the people responsible for growing, managing and protecting a retail store network, including property, leasing and portfolio managers, retail brand leaders, and GC's and in-house legal teams.
Crisis Management Plan Checklist
When a crisis hits, the first 24 hours set the course for everything that follows. Work through this checklist with your crisis management team, legal and risk leads.
December Deadlines, Draft Reforms and Lessons from Qantas
December 2026 closes out the first tranche of Privacy Act reform, and the second is already on the table. If your organisation uses automated tools to make decisions about people, collects children's data or relies on bundled consents, now is the time to act.
Non-Competes: What’s Proposed to Change
The Federal Government has released an exposure draft of the Competition and Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Banning Unfair Non-Competes) Bill 2026, which proposes to ban non-compete clauses for lower-paid employees and outlaw 'no-poach' and 'wage-fixing' agreements between businesses. Pitched as a reform to boost wages, job mobility and productivity, the proposed reforms – if passed – would change how businesses can protect themselves in 2027.
Building an AI Ready Legal Function
AI is already inside your legal function; the question is whether anything’s governing it. Most In-House teams didn’t roll out AI on purpose. It arrived through browser extensions, features switched on by default, and staff experimenting on their own initiative. That's not a compliance gap you can close with a memo, it's a maturity problem, and most teams are further behind than they think. This practical 60-minute webcast is built for the people accountable for legal, risk, and governance outcomes who need to understand how to build governance that keeps pace with the tools your people are already using.
New WFH Laws: What Victoria Signals for the Future of Work in Australia
Victoria’s new WFH laws are the clearest sign that workplace flexibility is shifting from cultural expectation to legal infrastructure. Victoria is first but likely won’t be the last State to legislate it. There may also be a national push if Victoria is seen to be a success. This practical 60-minute webcast is for HR, People + Culture, Operations leaders and In-House legal teams who need to understand what’s changing, what’s required and how to get their business in order.
Legal Without a Legal Team
Growth creates opportunity, but it also creates legal risk. For businesses operating without an in-house legal team, the challenge is knowing what to handle yourself and what needs expert support. This series highlights common pitfalls, simple steps to reduce risk, and when it is better (and ultimately cheaper) to call a lawyer rather than doing things yourself.
The Human Advantage
Last month I delivered a keynote at the Law Ninjas' Next Gen Summit in Sydney. Walking in, I knew what the room would be talking about…and I was right. Every conversation centred on artificial intelligence. How do we adopt it? How do we implement it safely? How do we bring our people on the journey? What will legal services look like in five years? They're all the right questions, and we're all learning together. But I chose to speak about something different: leadership.
ScaleUp Playbook
A practical resource for founders, CEOs and leadership teams navigating the next stage of growth. Designed to be dipped into when you need practical ideas, sharper questions and lessons learned from people who understand what it takes to scale well.
The Quiet Power of a GCs Legal Spend
This quarter, Squared Group CEO Demetrio Zema writes an open letter to GCs on the power of their legal spend, and what happens when in-house teams decide the default no longer serves them.
Building Influence at Board Level
Scrutiny of Boards has never been greater, all while navigating emerging risks and regulatory changes, maintaining a disciplined meeting cycle and staying on top of compliance. As the pressure on directors grows, so does the ask of the legal function sitting alongside them. So, what does it take to be a great legal partner to the Board?
The Current State of Insolvency in Australia
Australia’s insolvency landscape may have reached a turning point, with ASIC data indicating that new corporate insolvency appointments have started to decline, after reaching a peak for the millennium in 2024-25. Here, Disputes + Litigation Lawyer, Hayley Warren, unpacks what the latest figures mean for businesses, directors and creditors.
Victorian Chamber X Law Squared launch new Business Legal Support Line
Victorian businesses now have access to a new Business Legal Support Line through a partnership between the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Law Squared, providing members with fast, practical commercial legal guidance to support day-to-day business decision-making.
Workplace Essentials Hub
Law Squared’s Workplace Essentials Hub provides policy templates, checklists and guides to help HR leaders build safer, more compliant workplaces.
When the Music Stops: Administration vs Liquidation
The collapse of Bluesfest is a stark reminder that financial distress can move quickly from pressure to permanence. Here, Disputes & Litigation lawyer, Sarah Cooney explains the key differences between administration and liquidation, and what businesses can do early to better manage financial risk, protect their position and respond before options narrow.
Built Differently // Law Squared’s Next Chapter
Law Squared CEO, Claire Sundin, shares a message on the firm’s next chapter, built on ten years of challenging the traditional legal model.
ScaleUp Webcast - Eight Episode Series
The Law Squared Scaleup Series is an energetic online series for founders, executives and business leaders who want to scale and look to exit with confidence.
Voluntary First: Rethinking Land Access for Renewables
As Australia strives to meet its renewable energy goals, securing land access for vital infrastructure is a major challenge. This webcast addresses common misconceptions about compulsory acquisition, highlight the benefits of a voluntary and negotiated approach, and introduce a more human-centric, multidisciplinary, and technology-enabled model for landholder engagement