Publications, Guidelines and Resources

The Online Resources Hub brings publications, guidelines, articles and other resources from across the Law Society Website to one centralised and searchable location. Searches can be made using the Common Searches buttons or by using your own search terms in the search bar.

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InBrief is a weekly newsletter distributed to all Members on Thursday afternoons and contains important notices about current issues, updates, upcoming events, renewals, calls for expressions of interest, employment opportunities, submissions, missing will notices and other relevant and current information for members of the profession. Please contact Elle Ashton on (08) 8229 0236 or via email publications@lawsocietysa.asn.au to get a notice included in InBrief. For more information about the requirements for a missing will notice, please visit Locating the Will of a Deceased Person | Law Society of South Australia.

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Aug 26, 2024 – Their aim is to assist law practices guard against the risk of a breach of the duty of confidentiality owed to former clients.
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Apr 30, 2020 – These guidelines, which have been established at the instigation of the Society’s Young Lawyers’ Committee, seek to outline the dress standards generally accepted by the courts and as to acceptable interpretation of the standards. Practitioners are e
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Aug 26, 2024 – Their aim is to assist law practices guard against the risk of a breach of the duty of confidentiality owed to former clients.
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Sep 24, 2015 – View all Law Society Submissions. To represent the interests of members and the wider community, the Law Society actively seeks to influence policy and legislation through submissions to government, opposition parties, the courts and other bodies eit
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Sep 9, 2024 – Information on how to find a missing will or a lost will.
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Jul 10, 2024 – The Federal Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) is responsible for the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 which currently regulates the financial, gambling and bullion sectors. The AGD is currently reviewing the anti-mo
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Jul 6, 2014 – The Bulletin is the Law Society’s flagship journal, featuring information on the latest developments in the legal profession, informed analysis on key justice issues, previews and reviews of major events, and engaging profiles of legal professionals.
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Jul 6, 2014 – The Bulletin is the Law Society’s flagship journal, featuring information on the latest developments in the legal profession, informed analysis on key justice issues, previews and reviews of major events, and engaging profiles of legal professionals.
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Feb 15, 2019 – InBrief is a weekly newsletter distributed to all Members on Thursday afternoons. InBrief contains important information about current issues, updates, upcoming events, renewals, calls for expressions of interest, employment opportunities, submis
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Aug 26, 2024 – The purpose of this Guideline is to provide practitioners with a starting point for seeking general information regarding the storage, closing and destruction of files.
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Aug 28, 2024 – The purpose of this Guideline is to provide practitioners with a starting point for seeking general information regarding the employment of Paralegals/ Specialist Law Clerks.
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Aug 30, 2024 – The Judicial Council on Cultural Diversity delivers an eLearning course designed to give legal practitioners a working understanding of the Recommended National Standards for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals. Australia’s cultural
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Aug 26, 2024 – The purpose of this Guideline is to provide practitioners with a starting point for seeking general information. It is not an exhaustive statement of all the relevant ethical obligations that might apply to specific circumstances.
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Mar 28, 2024 – The purpose of this Guide is to assist employed practitioners who are taking or considering taking a leave of absence from legal practice and to inform you of the relevant Rules and professional obligations.
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Aug 26, 2024 – The purpose of this Guideline is to provide practitioners with a starting point for seeking general information regarding handling the departure of a legal practitioner and the dissolution of law practices.
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Aug 26, 2024 – These Guidelines are for legal practitioners who operate a practice from home, but can also assist those practitioners working from home away from their office in relation to issues of client confidentiality and privacy, and duties to the court and t
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Sep 12, 2024 – LawCare offers practitioners the opportunity to discuss with a general practitioner, Dr Jill, who has experience in treating social and psychological problems, any problem that is interfering with or has the opportunity to interfere with your work pe
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Sep 16, 2020 – The aim of the Risk Management activities of the Law Society is to reduce the incidence and magnitude of insurance claims against South Australian legal practitioners. Together with the Ethics and Practice Unit of the Society, Risk Management staf
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Aug 21, 2024 – The Wills Register is an initiative of the Law Society's Succession Law Committee and the aim is to provide a secure centralised register containing the location of South Australian Wills. It allows legal practitioners to quickly track down lost Will
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Sep 27, 2024 – Advocacy Notes is a monthly newsletter providing the latest news and advocacy from the Law Society
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Oct 1, 2024 – A list of common Law Society forms, including membership, practising certificate, PSS, trust account and other ethics and practice related issues.
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Dec 15, 2021 – Points of Law is the Law Society President's regular column in the Advertiser Newspaper.
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Dec 15, 2021 – Media Releases
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Aug 28, 2024 – Legal Costs Fact Sheets and Costs Disclosure Forms translated into various languages