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16/03/2010 | Clayton Utz endured and survived the departure of 14 partners to Allen & Overy, which launched new Australian offices last month, but the firm is still facing further losses. 1 comment
16/03/2010 | Middletons' workplace relations and safety partner, Kathy Dalton, wipes away all misconceptions about modern award rates and shows what in-house counsel really do need to be aware of under the new rules.
16/03/2010 | A Brisbane law firm's new marketing director will have to work to develop what comes out its recent merger with another firm.
15/03/2010 | Energy company Arrow Energy has received a $3.3 billion joint takeover offer from Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell and Chinese company PetroChina.
15/03/2010 | Clayton Utz advises Southern Cross Media as it was poised last week to complete its planned management internalisation initiative.
15/03/2010 | It has resolved more than 300 disputes, hastened court time and improved compliance in mergers and acquisitions. On the weekend, the Takeovers Panel turned 10 years old.
15/03/2010 | The billable hour was set in its ways. So were clients, law firms, and the regulators. What happened? John Chisholm divulges what, and when, things ticked over for time-based billing.
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.
15 March 2010 |
Energy company Arrow Energy has received a $3.3 billion joint takeover offer from Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell and Chinese company PetroChina.
15 March 2010 |
Clayton Utz advises Southern Cross Media as it was poised last week to complete its planned management internalisation initiative.
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.
16 March 2010 |
Clayton Utz endured and survived the departure of 14 partners to Allen & Overy, which launched new Australian offices last month, but the firm is still facing further losses.
16 March 2010 |
A Brisbane law firm's new marketing director will have to work to develop what comes out its recent merger with another firm.
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.
16 March 2010 |
Middletons' workplace relations and safety partner, Kathy Dalton, wipes away all misconceptions about modern award rates and shows what in-house counsel really do need to be aware of under the new rules.
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.
15 March 2010 |
The billable hour was set in its ways. So were clients, law firms, and the regulators. What happened? John Chisholm divulges what, and when, things ticked over for time-based billing.
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.
15 March 2010 |
It has resolved more than 300 disputes, hastened court time and improved compliance in mergers and acquisitions. On the weekend, the Takeovers Panel turned 10 years old.
28 February 2010 |
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