In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, produced in partnership with The College of Law, we reflect on how the new Right to Disconnect laws can and will facilitate mindset and communication shifts in professional services workplaces and why those in law should see these laws as a “moment for potential growth”.

Host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Florence Thum, a lecturer and assistant director in NSW for PLT at The College of Law, about her reflections on the advent and passage of the new Right to Disconnect laws, the need for law firms to realign their priorities, adopting a back-to-basics approach and what this looks like, and what meaningful, transparent communication should look like in the new normal.

Thum also delves into how individual lawyers can better advocate for themselves in evolving workplaces, making changes to the organisational mindset, building new communication strategies upon a foundation of respect and trust, the challenges that legal workplaces may face in undergoing such a realignment, and why the legal profession needs to see the Right to Disconnect laws as a “moment for potential growth”, and employ empathy in a technologically driven world.

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