Sexual harassment in the workplace is a serious issue which has recently come to the fore thanks to the #MeToo movement and a host of high-profile incidents in the media.

In this episode, host, Peter McNulty, Senior Associate, speaks with Elissa Speight, Employment Partner at Ashurst, about recent developments impacting sexual harassment in Australian workforces, including the response by the Australian Government to the Respect@Work report, undertaken by Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins.

“Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins, found the prevalence of sexual harassment in Australia to be endemic and costs the economy $3.5 billion per year, including $2.6 billion in lost productivity.” Elissa Speight, Employment Partner, Ashurst.

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This is the sixth, and final episode in a series dedicated to all things A.I. In this episode, Tae Royle, Head of Digital Products APAC from Ashurst Advance Digital is joined by Tara Waters, Partner and Head of Ashurst Advance Digital.

Naturally, attention turns to ‘What’s next?” for A.I in its legal context. Tara and Tae discuss the future of A.I in the legal profession and how lawyers can best prepare themselves for a future with A.I as an emerging and essential tool.

“I would really like to see the legal industry get together with the technology industry to tackle the big problems and to better understand how we can get access to bigger levels of data. We also need to work across and within the industry and not look at each other as competitors, but rather how can we all benefit from the improvements in A.I and machine  learning.” Tara goes on to say, “Watch this space …as this series has shown there is so much happening in A.I, so much promise.” 

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Nina Fitzgerald, IP and Media Partner at Ashurst, sits down with Julie Cheeseman, Counsel at Ashurst in the IP and Media team, to talk about protecting AI as a trade secret and some of the benefits and the challenges of this approach.

In the fourth episode of our A.I. series we talk about the copyright implications of A.I and computer generated works.

This podcast covers the value of patent protection, patentability of A.I and computer-implemented inventions in Australia and what the future of inventions created by A.I looks like under Australian patent law.

Mark Bradley, Dispute Resolution Partner at Ashurst speaks to Tae Royle, Head of Digital Products APAC from Ashurst Advance Digital about the ethical considerations around A.I decision making.

In this panel discussion, recorded virtually on 10 March 2021, we provide an update on the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in Australia and Asia and invites the panellists to share the roll-out experience in their jurisdictions including the challenges and differences across Europe and the UK.

Nina Fitzgerald, IP and Media Partner at Ashurst speaks to Tae Royle, Head of Digital Products APAC from Ashurst Advance Digital in the first episode of our AI series that explores and unlocks the mysteries of A.I and its legal applications.

A podcast series that will keep you across the legal trends that are shaping the legal landscape and impacting organisations.