Publications

Six Key Requirements to Become an Approved Aged Care Provider: This factsheet will outline the six key requirements you need to meet to become an approved aged care provider in Australia. These requirements are set by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.

New Aged Care Reforms: 6 Things to Know: Australia has new laws designed to improve quality, transparency and accountability across the Aged Care sector. This fact sheet outlines six key considerations for navigating these reforms.

Legal Essentials for Arts and Recreation Businesses: Starting or running an arts or recreation business? Download this free guide to learn key legal essentials, from compliance and contracts to intellectual property protection.

Legal Essentials for Construction Businesses: Starting or running a construction business? Download this free guide to learn key legal essentials, from contracts and safety to employment.

Legal Essentials for Education and Training Businesses: Starting or running an education business? Download this free guide to learn key legal essentials, from compliance and IP protection to employment and data privacy.

Legal Essentials for Fashion and Beauty Businesses: Starting or running a fashion or beauty business? Download this free guide to learn key legal essentials, from intellectual property to contracts and compliance.

Legal Essentials for Food and Hospitality Businesses: Starting or managing a food and hospitality business? Download this free guide to learn the key legal essentials, from contracts and employment to data protection and brand protection.

Franchisor Toolkit: How to Franchise Successfully: Franchising your business? This free guide will guide you through key strategies, legal essentials, and tips for successful growth

Legal Essentials for Franchisee Businesses: Starting or running a franchise? Download this free guide to understand key legal essentials, from agreements and IP protection to dispute resolution

Legal Essentials for Healthcare Providers: Navigate healthcare legal challenges confidently with this essential guide on compliance, employment, privacy, and commercial obligations.

Legal Essentials for Manufacturing and Logistics Businesses: Starting or running a manufacturing and logistics business? Download this guide for essential legal insights on compliance, contracts, and risk management.

Five Key Steps to Becoming an NDIS Service Provider: This factsheet outlines five important steps to help you successfully become an NDIS Service provider after deciding if you wish to be a registered or unregistered provider.

NDIS Service Agreement Factsheet: This factsheet will help you to identify the key terms you must include in your NDIS service agreement.

Legal Essentials for Online and eCommerce Businesses: Starting or managing an online and e-commerce business? Download this free guide to learn the key legal essentials, from contracts and employment to data and brand protection.

Legal Essentials for Professional Services Businesses: Starting or managing a professional services business? Our free guide offers key insights into compliance, contracts, and resolving legal disputes.

Legal Essentials for Retail Businesses: Starting or managing a retail business? Download this free guide to learn the key legal essentials, from contracts and employment to data protection and brand protection.

Legal Essentials for Startup and Technology Businesses: Launching or running a startup or tech business? Get this free guide to discover the key legal essentials from contracts and employment matters to data protection.

Company Loans Factsheet: This factsheet provides an overview of the key legal components and considerations for loan arrangements between a company and its shareholders or directors.

Bolt on Acquisitions Essentials Factsheet: Bolt-on acquisitions are a great way to drive growth without building every capability from the ground up. Download our factsheet now to learn more.

Selling Your Business Fact Sheet: This fact sheet will provide an overview of the sale of business process and the documents you need to make an effective sale.

Guide to Share Sales: Want to sell your business? A share sale may be beneficial compared to an asset sale. Download our free Guide to Share Sales today.

How to Sell Your Business: This guide sets out all the moving parts that will impact a successful business sale.

Expanding to the USA: Understanding Business Structures: This factsheet outlines the key features and the pros and cons of four common business structures: sole traders, partnerships, limited liability companies (LLCs), and corporations.

Commercial Contracts Checklist: Reviewing contracts across your business? Download this free checklist to ensure clear terms, fair risk allocation and stronger commercial outcomes.

Unfair Contract Terms and Your Business: As a business owner, you must familiarise yourself with the recent changes to UCT law and how they affect your rights and responsibilities.

Top 10 Risk Clauses in Construction Contracts: If you work in the building and construction industry, understanding how key clauses in your contract allocate risk is critical to protecting your business. This guide outlines the top 10 risk clauses commonly found in construction contracts.

2026 Key Construction Legal Developments: If you work in the building and construction industry, this factsheet outlines the latest law changes that may impact your business.

Making a SOPA Payment Claim: This factsheet outlines the process for making a claim.

Labour Agreement Factsheet: Labour agreements allow employers to sponsor overseas workers for approved roles, under terms negotiated with the DOHA. This factsheet outlines five different types of labour agreements and when they might apply to your business.

How the ACLA Can Help Your Aged Care Facility: This factsheet explains how the Aged Care Labour Agreement works and how you can sponsor talent into your aged care business.

Shareholders Agreement Guide: Starting a business with co-founders? Download this free guide to set clear shareholder rights and prevent disputes

ACCC Merger Reforms: What You Need to Know: This factsheet outlines key aspects of the ACCC’s mandatory and suspensory merger notification regime.

Directors' Duties: This guide will help you understand the directors' duties that apply to you within the Australian corporate law framework.

Australian Privacy Principles: What Your Business Needs To Do: Download the free factsheet to see where your business stands under the Privacy Act 1988 and the 2024 amendments.

2025 Key Data and Privacy Developments: This factsheet outlines the Australian Government’s strengthened consumer privacy laws in 2025 following major data breaches and their alignment with global standards.

2024 Key Data and Privacy Developments: The Australian Government is changing the law to protect consumer privacy after a series of high-profile data breaches. This fact sheet outlines what is expected in 2024.

2023 Key Data and Privacy Developments: The Australian Government is changing the law to protect consumer privacy after a series of high-profile data breaches. This fact sheet outlines what is expected in 2023.

Preventing Social Media Defamation Factsheet: This factsheet explains online defamation, who can bring a claim and what to do before escalating a dispute.

Directors Disputes Handbook: Managing director disputes in your business? Download this free guide to understand duties, resolve conflicts, and protect your interests.

How to Manage a Business Dispute: Learn how to manage and resolve your business disputes effectively.

How to Recover Unpaid Invoices: This guide helps business owners and financial controllers best manage and recover their debts.

How to Start an Online Business: This guide sets out how to set up, finance and grow an online business in Australia.

Guide to Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace: Ensure your workplace is meeting its psychosocial legal obligations with this free guide, offering practical steps, legal insights, and effective risk management strategies.

Key Employment Law Differences Between The UK, NZ and AU: Understand employment law differences in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.

Right to Disconnect Factsheet: Ensure your workplace policy supports your employees' right to disconnect.

Guide to Employment Disputes: Learn how to manage employment disputes and effectively protect your business from legal action.

Employer Positive Duties Fact Sheet: This fact sheet outlines employers' ‘positive duty’ under sex discrimination laws, highlighting proactive measures to prevent unlawful conduct.

Preventing Workplace Stress and Burnout: As a business owner or manager, you have a duty under WHS laws to prevent harm caused by psychosocial risks in the workplace, including stress. This factsheet outlines common psychosocial hazards and a checklist of risk mitigation strategies.

Working From Home Safely: As a business, you are legally obligated to provide a safe workplace, regardless of where your employees work—from the office, home, or on the road. This factsheet outlines common health and safety risks and provides a risk mitigation checklist.

2024 Key Employment Law Changes: As an employer, it is essential to understand what employment laws have changed and their implications for your business — particularly the changes to the Fair Work Act 2009 through the new Closing the Loopholes legislation.

How Non-Compete Clauses Protect Your Business: This factsheet explains how non-compete clauses prevent others from gaining an unfair advantage in the market.

2023 Key Employment Developments: This factsheet outlines the latest regulatory developments in employment law.

Safety Essentials for SMEs: As a business owner, you have a legal obligation to provide a safe workplace for your employees and customers. This guide explains how.

How to Hire and Inspire: Whether it’s your first hire or your fiftieth, this guide will help you understand the moving parts behind building a high-performing team.

How to Prevent Wage Underpayment: Ensure your employees are paid correctly with our free guide on how to prevent wage underpayment.

Selling Your Franchise Network: Selling a franchise network presents some unique and complex issues. Understand the process with this free guide.

Managing a Franchise Network: This publication offers guidance on managing your franchise network effectively to achieve success, ensure franchisee satisfaction, and maintain legal compliance.

How to End the Franchise Relationship Factsheet: This factsheet explores the five main ways a franchise relationship can end, including expiration, mutual agreement, and termination by either party. It outlines key considerations and required actions under the Franchising Code of Conduct.

2025 Franchising Key Developments: This fact sheet outlines the latest regulatory developments to help franchisors stay compliant in 2025.

Franchisor PPSR Factsheet: This cheat sheet explains what the Personal Property Securities Register is and the benefits of registration for franchisors.

Franchisor Legal Health Checklist: This legal health checklist will help you to identify areas in your network that may need further protection or assistance to ensure that you are legally compliant.

2023 Franchising Key Developments: This fact sheet outlines the latest regulatory developments to help franchisors stay compliant.

Franchisor Guide to Misleading and Deceptive Conduct : As a franchisor, you must not engage in misleading and deceptive conduct. We explain what it is and how to avoid it.

Buying a Franchise : This guide sets out the key legal and commercial issues to consider when buying a franchise.

SaaS Legal Essentials Factsheet: What to Include in a SaaS Contract: This factsheet outlines key clauses you can include as a SaaS business to ensure you can protect your interests and limit your liability.

Trade Mark Scams: What You Need To Know: This fact sheet explains what to look for and how to protect your business from trade mark scams.

AI Art: Your Legal Considerations: This fact sheet outlines your rights and obligations as an AI artist regarding intellectual property and copyright.

Guide to Protecting Your Brand: Your business’ brand represents your values, identity and reputation. Learn how to create a successful brand and protect it.

Trade Mark Essentials: Understand how trade mark registration works in Australia to protect your brand.

Retail Lease Assignment in Queensland: Transferring a retail lease in Queensland requires careful review, landlord consent, and thorough preparation to ensure a smooth handover when buying or selling a business.

Retail Lease Assignment in NSW: Transferring a retail lease in NSW requires careful review, landlord consent, and thorough preparation to ensure a smooth handover when buying or selling a business.

Commercial Lease Assignment in ACT: This guide outlines the key considerations when assigning a commercial lease in the ACT, including landlord consent, a formal deed of assignment, payment of stamp duty, and providing a disclosure statement.

Commercial Lease Assignment in NSW: Assigning a commercial lease in NSW requires landlord consent, key documents, and early preparation.

Commercial Lease Assignment in Victoria: Transferring a commercial lease in Victoria involves consent, careful review, and meeting the landlord’s conditions.

Commercial Lease Assignment in Queensland: Lease assignments in Queensland require landlord approval, document preparation, and meeting all financial and legal obligations.

Landlord's Guide to Commercial and Retail Leasing Disputes: This guide explores the various types of leasing disputes that may arise and how to resolve them.

Real Estate Advertising Compliance Requirements : This factsheet outlines your key real estate advertising requirements.

How to End a Lease Factsheet: Need to exit your commercial lease early? Download this free guide to understand your options and avoid costly mistakes.

Managing a Lease When Purchasing a Business: This guide will help you to understand your options when you purchase a business with leased premises.

Anti-Money Laundering Checklist For Real Estate Agents: This checklist will help real estate agents identify whether they are meeting their AML and CTF obligations, and what further action may be required to achieve compliance.

Anti-Money Laundering Checklist For Accounting Firms: This checklist will help accounting firms identify whether they are meeting their AML and CTF obligations, and what further action may be required to achieve compliance.

Childcare Industry Legal Health Check: This legal health checklist will help you to identify areas in your childcare business that may need further protection or assistance to ensure that you are legally compliant.

Environment Legal Health Checklist: This legal health checklist will help you identify areas in your environmental business that may need further protection or assistance to ensure that you are legally compliant.

Legal Essentials for Healthcare Providers: Navigate healthcare legal challenges confidently with this essential guide on compliance, employment, privacy, and commercial obligations.

How to Legally Price Your Products and Services Fact Sheet: This guide outlines businesses' obligations under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), highlighting key strategies to ensure compliance and prevent misleading conduct.

Anti-Money Laundering Factsheet: As a business, you are legally obligated to comply with Australia’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) laws, which protect the financial system from misuse. This factsheet outlines your obligations under the law and highlights upcoming changes.

Product Liability in the Age of AI: This factsheet explores the potential issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and product liability for businesses relying on AI-enabled products or services, such as manufacturers and distributors.

How the Food Standards Operate: This factsheet explores the critical aspects of these regulations for food business operators.

Not-For-Profit Legal Health Checklist: This legal health checklist will help you to identify areas in your NFP that may need further protection or assistance to ensure that you are legally compliant.

Trade Promotion: Guide to Record Keeping: This fact sheet outlines what records you need to keep when you run a trade promotion for each state and territory, and what documents you should keep.

6 Steps to Surviving a Potential Downturn: Learn how to prepare your business for a serious economic downturn.

Loan Repayment Options During a Downturn: This factsheet outlines how to keep your business viable during a financial downturn.

Startup Manual: The Startup Manual is essential reading for any founder looking to launch and grow a startup.

Payday Super: What Your Business Needs to Know: This factsheet outlines the key changes and requirements under the reforms.

Payroll Tax Essentials for Business Owners: As an employer, there are some circumstances where you will be required to pay payroll tax. This fact sheet considers your tax obligations.

End of Financial Year Checklist: Follow this EOFY checklist to put your business in the best position to grow in the year ahead.