The Lawcast

As employment lawyer, Melanie Thorley has heard insane client stories. One of them is about how an employer can protect a staff member, enabling them to watch porn at work in a legally safe way. Melanie also speaks about the daily life of an employment lawyer in Brisbane. Video version: https://youtu.be/4LoNAcp2HTo 🙌🏻We are a law firm that assist with employment related matters. Contact us if yo...

Melanie, as an employment lawyer, reacts to "My Cousin Vinny," a family-law attorney is hired to defend a cousin of his who has been accused of murdering his wife. The attorney gets more than he bargained for when he finds out that his client is also an illegal immigrant from Sicily, and may not be as innocent as he claims to be. Video here: https://youtu.be/u_yNHfxcF4w 🙌🏻We are a law firm that...

Melanie speaks about Elle Wood's court attire and highlights what you are NOT supposed to wear as a Lawyer at court. (For starters, dogs are not allowed anywhere near the courtroom, and she has one in her handbag.) Video Version: https://youtu.be/5K5hIvgfX90 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📰 MJT Law's latest online article: https://mjtlaw.com.au/.../mcdonalds-c ... 📨Email: admin@...

Melanie, a Solicitor from Brisbane contrast her law school experience with Legally Blonde's Elle Wood's! This is a 4-part series on Legally Blonde, we would love to hear your comments! Video Version: https://youtu.be/fU-kkkU82RU 🙌🏻We are a law firm that assist with employment related matters. Contact us if you are employer, or an employee needing help. 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultat...

Melanie goes through the realities of law school with Legally Blonde and Elle Woods. This episode is on Elle Woods in the classroom, competing with her classmates for the top grades and a potential internship. Video Version: https://youtu.be/RgkXa_GhUtc 🙌🏻We are a law firm that assist with employment related matters. Contact us if you are employer, or an employee needing help. 🌐Web: https://mjt...

Law school is not easy, but has this old legal series captured how truly difficult it can be? Melanie shares her personal stories about the harshness of law school. Yes, we are a law firm that assist with employment related matters. Contact us if you are employer, or an employee needing help. Video version here: https://youtu.be/7SGpHr7xnlQ 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📰 MJT La...

Melanie rates Boston Legal's court scenes, was this more accurate than newer legal dramas like Lincoln Lawyer and Suits? Let us know your comments! Video Version: https://youtu.be/88PNa5X3SxE 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📰 MJT Law's latest online article: https://mjtlaw.com.au/.../mcdonalds-c ... 📨Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430

A new Netflix legal series is out! Melanie, an employment lawyer based in Australia comments and gives opinions on Juries forced to become Juries in a Homicide court case. Video version: https://youtu.be/02m7lSxU50g 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📰 MJT Law's latest online article: https://mjtlaw.com.au/.../mcdonalds-c ... 📨Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430

A new Netflix legal series is out! Melanie, an employment lawyer based in Australia judges the technical accuracy of the role of solicitors being called to Court. 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📰 MJT Law's latest online article: https://mjtlaw.com.au/.../mcdonalds-c ... 📨Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430

Suits Season 1, episode 4 is on blast! Melanie deep dives into court behaviours and protocols and compares it to the Australian Court System. Mike is defending his client against a rent claim, but fails horribly? 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📰 MJT Law's latest online article: https://mjtlaw.com.au/.../mcdonalds-c ... 📨Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430

Have you ever watched Suits, and wondered if that reflects the reality of what court should be? Melanie dissects how accurate the American TV drama is, from solicitor attire/dress code, to how lawyers interact with each other, to how judges speak at court. DISCLAIMER: of course there might be differences in American court and Australian courts. 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📰 MJ...

Melanie deep dives into the new bill by the Australian Labour Party - Fair Work Amendment Equal Pay for Equal Work Bill. Pay transparency, equal pay for contractors... does this actually address underlying causes of the gender pay gap and help pay equality? Could enforcing these bills mean that companies no longer hire, or will now terminate their contractors? Freedom to speak about your salary to...

This week on the LawCast we join Melanie on site with 😍 Nera Skripic, owner and operator of Plushh Beauty, and we look into how Nera transitioned her ‘side-hustle’ to a small business while studying Law at Bond University. Watch the YouTube full video: https://youtu.be/Dmw9FR0qJww 💻 Book online for your free half hour consultation with an award-winning team: 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-con...

This week on the LawCast we join Melanie and Chris for our take on the ‘gig economy’ – task-based work available from online platforms.🍟🍕🤹‍♀️🚕🛵🪛🔨

🤔 Today on Chris’ Commissions Crazies we join Melanie and Chris for ‘Industrial Relations Gone Wrong’. 💻Book online for your free half hour consultation with an award-winning team: 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 👀MJT Law's latest online article: https://mjtlaw.com.au/2022/08/17/mcdonalds-class-action-and-what-we-can-learn/ 📧Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430

On the MJT LawCast today, we join Melanie and Chris for a sticky beak into the "immediate action" set to change the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) including: • Stronger access for flexible working arrangements and unpaid parental leave • Stronger protections (adverse action, harassment, discrimination) • Ensuring all workers can negotiate in good faith • Ensuring workers and business have flexible optio...

This week on the LawCast we join Melanie and Chris for some OMG: Solicitors behaving... Badly🤪🤭 Contrary to well-known caricatures of lawyers as 'liars' etc, most lawyers are genuine and honest. On that note, here are our curated outliers - a selection of recent cases from the past few years of solicitors behaving badly...

This week on the LawCast, we join Melanie and Chris for an edgy dive into: - the current bill for Family and Domestic Violence paid leave and potential impacts for employers and employees; and - 'Dismissed or not?' A case looking at whether an employee was dismissed from employment after being told to 'lose' his boss's number.🤳🏽 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 👀Video version: ht...

This week on the LawCast, we join Melanie and Chris for: - the Triple Cs (Chris's Commissions Crazies) latest offering - being fired for texting your boss (and not using emojis); as well as - a case of a completely trusted employee's elaborate fraud scheme to the tune of over $4M, and thoughts on how employers might avoid these situations. 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 👀Video ve...

This week on the LawCast Melanie and Chris talk about an interesting case relating to redundancies and relocations, and go over some of the issues that can come about due to relocations. 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 👀Video version: https://youtu.be/GCiwgRsY3UY 📧Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430

This week on the LawCast Melanie and Chris talk about discrimination, sexual harassment and favours for promotions.

This week on the LawCast Chris and Melanie discuss, amoung other things, modern day slavery and having a relationship with a student.

We have a new federal Government in Australia, there will be changes to the employment law regime... Melanie the Chris talk about what may happen next.

🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📧Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430 Video version: https://youtu.be/k4UcIVwtQ0w This week join Melanie and Chris are discussing the issues around a policy that give leave to women who are experiencing period pains and a unsuccessful application relation to a request to work from home for the next five years.

A bus driver was fired for telling an anti-masker to wear a mask, and using a smart-watch on the job. This was in breach of the company's policy to *not* engage with anti-maskers. Was this an unfair dismissal? Video version: https://youtu.be/Aye6iOPGdsA 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📧Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430