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10/03/2010 | Queensland's largest law firm has announced the establishment of the role of managing partner as part of a new governance structure.
10/03/2010 | Draft legislation that enables the government to target Telstra's government and enterprise business with its new national broadband network has lawyers, and Telstra itself, wired.
10/03/2010 | Arnold Bloch Leibler has acted on the sale of a luxury retirement and aged care facility in Wollongong.
10/03/2010 | Carter Newell has made new hires in its litigation and dispute resolution team.
09/03/2010 | A lawyer with almost two decades of experience in-house has moved into a special counsel role at law firm Colin Biggers & Paisley.
08/03/2010 | Maurice Blackburn has announced it has made steps to pursue a potential class against a waste management company.
08/03/2010 | Glass ceilings, slippery ladders, boys' clubs and fraternities are finally being eradicated in an elite list of law firms, the government announced today.
08/03/2010 | Freehills is acting as Australian legal counsel to Miclyn Express Offshore as it seeks to raise between $502 million and $623.7 million in an initial public offer.
08/03/2010 | Law firm Gilbert + Tobin has secured a role as legal adviser to the state in the transfer of NSW Lotteries Corporation to Tatts Group Limited.
05/03/2010 | Law firm HopgoodGanim has advised Norton Gold Fields on its $20 million capital raising, allowing the Australia-listed miner to settle a hedge dispute with the administrators of the failed Lehman Brothers.
10 March 2010 |
Arnold Bloch Leibler has acted on the sale of a luxury retirement and aged care facility in Wollongong.
8 March 2010 |
Freehills is acting as Australian legal counsel to Miclyn Express Offshore as it seeks to raise between $502 million and $623.7 million in an initial public offer.
8 March 2010 |
Maurice Blackburn has announced it has made steps to pursue a potential class against a waste management company.
8 March 2010 |
Glass ceilings, slippery ladders, boys' clubs and fraternities are finally being eradicated in an elite list of law firms, the government announced today.
10 March 2010 |
Carter Newell has made new hires in its litigation and dispute resolution team.
9 March 2010 |
A lawyer with almost two decades of experience in-house has moved into a special counsel role at law firm Colin Biggers & Paisley.
5 March 2010 |
There is money being made, and until now Australian lawyers haven’t had their share. But a new dispute resolution centre in Sydney is set to open the floodgates.
22 February 2010 |
A discussion on just how bad the global financial crisis has been for lawyers working in the banking and finance sectors may see the world shed a few crocodile tears.
10 March 2010 |
Draft legislation that enables the government to target Telstra's government and enterprise business with its new national broadband network has lawyers, and Telstra itself, wired.
5 March 2010 |
The corporate regulator has reached an out-of-court agreement with the Australian Wheat Board as AWB agreed to hand over confidential documents from the Iraq oil-for-food saga.
5 March 2010 |
Working successfully with Asia requires more than certain legal expertise. The relationship has to change, writes barrister William Lye
26 February 2010 |
Human rights are set to be breached by security measures outlined in the Government's Counter Terrorism White Paper, leading lawyers say.
3 March 2010 |
The major ASIC-backed class action by Westpoint investors today saw success as the Federal Court approved a $13.5 million settlement
3 March 2010 |
Lawyers' good nature and eagerness to do well by others is being appealed to as the Bar launches a new good cause legal panel.
25 February 2010 |
Lawyers giving something for nothing? Peter Turner, chief executive of the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association, looks at how and why in-house lawyers are taking on the pro bono cause.
18 February 2010 |
Skinny jeans are one thing, but a skinny legal team? That's exactly what Levi Strauss is hoping for.
10 March 2010 |
Queensland's largest law firm has announced the establishment of the role of managing partner as part of a new governance structure.
29 January 2010 |
If firms did a better job at conveying and value, clients would not give a boot about time spent. John Chisholm writes.
28 February 2010 |
Complimentary white paper from DocsCorp: PDF redaction - what every law firm should know.
15 February 2010 |
A new policy statement released by the peak body representing Australian lawyers aims to highlight a commitment by Australian lawyers to address Indigenous disadvantage in the practice of law.