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.
15 December 2009 | Large Australian organisations are becoming more aware of the business risks around climate change but have held back taking action in the current fog of legislative uncertainty, a new survey reveals.
4 December 2009 | Lawyers are gearing up to advise clients on what Wednesday's demise of the emissions trading scheme in the Senate means for their businesses.
3 December 2009 | Australian law firms are sending their climate change experts to Copenhagen next week - Freehills, Deacons and Norton Rose, and Minter Ellison included.
2 December 2009 | Minter Ellison is putting a woman on the ground in Copenhagen to hand clients information first hand.
23 November 2009 | Legal threats now stand as a barrier to the federal government’s emissions trading scheme.
2 November 2009 | Which various tapas will Norton Rose lawyers be enjoying in Barcelona next week?
19 October 2009 | The formal merger is yet to occur, but Deacons and Norton Rose are getting awfully close.
3 September 2009 | The new risks climate change presents for the infrastructure industry will reshape its future and lead to an evolution in industry practice and contractual risk allocation, according to a construction and major projects partner.
12 August 2009 | The Government wants the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme to be part of its armoury in fighting global warming.
7 August 2009 | The Federal Coalition says it will move a motion to have the Government's emissions trading legislation separated from its renewable energy target legislation when Parliament resumes next week.
25 June 2009 | Young lawyers starting out in environmental practice groups had an incredible opportunity to be involved in the new practice area of climate change law, almost from its inception.
12 June 2009 | An environmental lawyer from DLA Phillips Fox will be one of 300 selected participants at the Australia Asia Pacific summit on climate change
19 May 2009 | Law firms with climate change practices are seeing an upswing in work thanks to a new public zeit geist around renewable energy and remedying climate change.
15 May 2009 | Climate change lawyers keen to get a new flow of work are waiting with fingers crossed for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) to pass through Parliament.
7 April 2009 | A strict new carbon reduction scheme is predicted to create a host of new work for climate change lawyers.