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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 – Bidding for legal work and engaging with legal brokers raises ethical issues that require consideration by legal practitioners before participation.
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Nov 22, 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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Aug 23, 2018 – The purpose of this Guideline is to provide legal practitioners with a starting point for identifying warning signs of insolvency in their practice, how to avoid or manage it and how it can impact upon their ability to practise law.
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Aug 26, 2024 – What authorises practitioners to witness documents and what is the proper way for them to witness documents?
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Aug 26, 2024 – The purpose of this Guideline is to provide legal practitioners with a starting point for exploring the risks and opportunities presented by cryptocurrency.
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Aug 26, 2024 – The Law Council of Australia has developed these guidelines to serve as a general ethical and practical framework for the practice of mediation. The guidelines are intended to apply to all types of mediation. Particular professional and other bodies
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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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Aug 26, 2024 – These Guidelines aim to assist providers of legal services to produce advertisements and promotional material that comply with ethical and statutory obligations, and therefore reduce the risk of a finding of misleading and deceptive conduct (whether
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Aug 26, 2024 – Social media presents both opportunities and challenges for legal practitioners by easily and inexpensively allowing legal practitioners to interact with others and the public generally. The purpose of these Guidelines is to assist practitioners in a
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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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Feb 1, 2021 – Crowd-funding has obvious access to justice benefits and can be a valid and valuable source of funding for legal services. 2. The purpose of this document is to improve understanding of crowd-funding and highlight the relevant ethical and profession
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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 Law Council of Australia has developed these guidelines to give assistance to lawyers representing clients in the mediation of civil and commercial disputes. It is not intended that the guidelines derogate in any way from the usual obligations im
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Aug 26, 2024 – The Law Council of Australia has developed these guidelines to provide practical and ethical guidance to parties engaged in mediation. The guidelines are intended to apply to all types of mediation. Professional and other bodies may have different re
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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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Aug 26, 2024 – This is also a practical guide to assist legal practitioners when they have doubts about their client’s “legal” capacity to give them instructions or to make their own legal decisions. This may be because of illness, intellectual disability, mental
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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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Sep 9, 2024 – Information on how to find a missing will or a lost will.