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Finalists for the 2018 Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA)/LexisNexis Thought Leadership Awards have been announced, with disruptive technology a common theme.

New research by Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA) shows wages are continuing to flat-line across the legal sector, and the forecast is for modest wage increases for staff working at Australian law firms.

Most staff working at New Zealand law firms can expect to receive a pay rise at or above the Consumer Price Index (CPI), according to research conducted by Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA) and McLeod Duminy. More than 100 New Zealand law firms from across the country, employing 2,676 people participated in the 2018 ALPMA/McLeod Duminy NZ Legal Industry Salary and HR Issues Survey.

The 2018 research by Client Experience specialists CXINLAW has revealed some significant and very expensive service failings amongst Australian law firms.

A study of Australian law firms reveals they are financially resilient and adapting well to an increasingly competitive market.

The annual ALPMA / Crowe Horwath benchmarking survey of NZ law firms shows the sector is expecting an average of 5 per cent growth in the next financial year - building on gross profit margins* that currently average nearly 75 per cent.

Mills Oakley’s ‘Shark Tank’-style Innovation Accelerator for legal start-ups has been selected as the winner of the 2017 ALPMA/LexisNexis Thought Leadership Awards, over finalists Proximity, Bannermans Lawyers and Legal Economy.

Lawyers and leaders are better at critical thinking than they are at communicating or collaborating, and are challenged when it comes to finding creative solutions, according to research by the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA) and InfoTrack released at 2017 ALPMA Summit today.

Most law firms do not value creativity and have focused little effort on improving creativity at their firms—despite the fact that this is a critical skill in the process of producing and implementing new, useful ideas and trying new approaches to get things done, according to the preliminary results of research by the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA) and InfoTrack.