Welcome to the September Australian Legal Content Update. This has been a busy month as we’ve been releasing exciting new improvements across our existing NSW and QLD Personal Injury matters, as well as continuing our expansion into Tasmania with State-specific matter types. 

Let’s dive in to the highlights below, or check out the full list of this month’s updates here. 

Personal Injury Matter Type Improvements

Queensland

This month we released two highly requested updates for our Queensland Personal Injury matters. Where previously you could only act for the Claimant, the new changes are now as follows:

For Public Liability: Ability to act for Respondent

For Workers Compensation: Ability to act for Employer

New South Wales 

For NSW, we have also updated the NSW Dust Disease matter type with the ability to choose to act for the Defendant:

Further due to popular client feedback, the NSW Workers Injury Damages Matter and Lead types have been renamed to Work Injury Damages.

New Matter Types for Tasmania

Continuing our new State-specific matter types for Tasmania, we also released the following matter types:

•  Power of Attorney;
•  Enduring Guardianship; and
•  Will, POA and Enduring Guardianship

Report Updates 

This has also been a big month for report improvements, with the following changes now available:

New Reports

• A NEW bar chart named 'Settlement by Year' has been added to Conveyancing/Settlement Insights located in Firm Insights, providing an overview of settlements for the year; and

• A NEW  'Contact Export' report is now available in Smokeball Reports, to help export contact data.

Report Improvements

• The 'Matter - Referral List' report in Smokeball Reports has been updated to include a new 'Agent' column; and

• We have updated the following three Critical Dates reports to include sorting selected columns by date:

  • Conveyancing - Critical Dates Report (QLD);
  • Conveyancing - Critical Dates Report (VIC); and
  • Conveyancing - Critical Dates Report (SA).

To see all of this month’s updates, including Forms updates, check out the full list of this month’s updates.

Otherwise, stay tuned for next month’s update and don’t forget to post any questions below!