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30/07/2010 | ALSA today sent letters to the Government and Opposition requesting a substantial increase in funding for mental health services for young adults.
30/07/2010 | Just weeks after it merged with a Tasmanian law firm, on top of a merger with a North Sydney practice, Macpherson and Kelley has announced further changed to its practice.
30/07/2010 | A peak body representing the Victorian legal profession has fired criticism at the government’s control of weapons amendment bill, asking it to withdraw it from Parliament.
27/07/2010 | A group of Indigenous land owners from the Northern Territory are in Melbourne to challenge a Federal Government plan to build a nuclear waste dump on their land.
27/07/2010 | Freehills has advised on a deal involving Australia’s largest natural gas infrastructure business.
27/07/2010 | Corrs Chambers Westgarth is advising an African-focused diversified mineral exploration company on a takeover by Paladin Energy Limited.
26/07/2010 | Redundancies are so 2009 … Law firms are hiring again, and retaining talent is the newest buzz word, again. Corrs Chambers Westgarth human resources manager, Alexis Navie, writes.
26/07/2010 | Minter Ellison is advising Bendigo Mining on its newly announced planned merger with BCD Resources.
26/07/2010 | Clayton Utz is advising Macquarie Capital Advisers as underwriter of SAI Global's
A$130 million equity raising.
26/07/2010 | The Victorian Bar has announced the upcoming opening of two new Chambers.
27 July 2010 |
Freehills has advised on a deal involving Australia’s largest natural gas infrastructure business.
27 July 2010 |
Corrs Chambers Westgarth is advising an African-focused diversified mineral exploration company on a takeover by Paladin Energy Limited.
30 July 2010 |
Just weeks after it merged with a Tasmanian law firm, on top of a merger with a North Sydney practice, Macpherson and Kelley has announced further changed to its practice.
21 July 2010 |
Law firm Maurice Blackburn today announced that the Multiplex Group has settled claims made against it for a sum of $110 million including legal costs.
19 July 2010 |
Piper Alderman, a 55 partner law firm, has appointed a new national managing partner to its ranks.
12 July 2010 |
One of the country's first female managing partners has moved to Swaab Attorneys after departing Corrs Chambers Westgarth.
12 July 2010 |
Norton Rose is getting in the way of Australian law firms' league table rankings.
8 July 2010 |
Mallesons is acting for CSIRO as it lines up a $10 million partnership project that will store carbon dioxide in China as an energy source.
30 July 2010 |
A peak body representing the Victorian legal profession has fired criticism at the government’s control of weapons amendment bill, asking it to withdraw it from Parliament.
19 July 2010 |
The federal government has made the single biggest funding injection of funds into legal services in the Northern Territory.
26 July 2010 |
Redundancies are so 2009 … Law firms are hiring again, and retaining talent is the newest buzz word, again. Corrs Chambers Westgarth human resources manager, Alexis Navie, writes.
26 July 2010 |
The ALRC has been asked to undertake a wholesale review of the discovery process, including considering alternatives to discovery. Allison Stanfield and Geoffrey Lambert of e.law Asia Pacific write
27 July 2010 |
A group of Indigenous land owners from the Northern Territory are in Melbourne to challenge a Federal Government plan to build a nuclear waste dump on their land.
26 July 2010 |
The Victorian Bar has announced the upcoming opening of two new Chambers.
8 July 2010 |
The peak body representing corporate lawyers in Australia has appointed a new CEO as Peter Turner stepped down from the post.
4 June 2010 |
Despite the onslaught of day-to-day work and business, in-house lawyers need to remember to step back and look around, Peter Turner writes
10 June 2010 |
A three-month exchange of lawyers from China to Australia, being hailed as nurturing professional links between the two countries, comes to an end this week.
31 May 2010 |
It may comes as no surprise to those law firm clients used to window shopping for the best deals that firms charge different rates for the same job. But a new report finds most firms also charge different rates depending on the client.
30 July 2010 |
ALSA today sent letters to the Government and Opposition requesting a substantial increase in funding for mental health services for young adults.
21 July 2010 |
Ask not what you can do for your country, the peak body representing the legal profession suggested today, but what your country can do for you.