12 February 2010 | Shocking Australian law firms last week was the news that Allen & Overy would be entering the Australian marketplace. What does it all mean, asks Ted Dwyer 4 comments
9 February 2010 | Less than two months after its merger with Australian law firm Deacons, Norton Rose is already moving people around within its Australasian practices.
13 January 2010 | The international law firm that merged with Australian firm Deacons this month has secured a place on an Indonesian deal valued at $415 million.
18 December 2009 | Whatever happens in the final hours of the Copenhagen climate change meetings, does it really matter whether a legally binding agreement is reached? Deacons partner Rebecca Hoare writes. 1 comment
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.
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.
9 November 2009 | Elisa de Wit heads the environment practice at Deacons' Melbourne office. She has travelled to Reykjavik to undertake environmental assessment and now awaits an onslaught of work if the CPRS is passed in Australia. She speaks to Kate Gibbs
2 November 2009 | Which various tapas will Norton Rose lawyers be enjoying in Barcelona next week?
23 October 2009 | Japan's renewed interest in Australia as an investment opportunity is driving Australian law firms to open up offices in the city.
22 October 2009 | Minter Ellison has worked on the fast-moving Ford Credit Australia deal, which was started and finished in the space of a couple of months.
19 October 2009 | The formal merger is yet to occur, but Deacons and Norton Rose are getting awfully close.
8 October 2009 | The question of whether Australian law firms hold the key to Asia that firms such as Norton Rose and Clifford Chance thinks it does, has been raised in the United States.
2 October 2009 | Mallesons and Freehills are too big, and their sights are set too firmly on Asia, to consider a merger with another major Australian firm, says the legal market expert who last week predicted the rise of a mega firm.
29 September 2009 | One mega firm to rule them all, and one major mid tier firm that will really be able to compete with the top tier, are very real threats to other firms in the Australian legal services industry.
22 September 2009 | Law firms came together this morning to delete a common question mark over social media. 1 comment
18 September 2009 | The Fair Work Ombudsman has announced its new legal services panels. Mid tier joins the top tier.
16 September 2009 | Victorian law firms have increased their pro bono contributions as the economy falters.
10 September 2009 | Law firm Deacons has announced the appointment of a Clifford Chance lawyer to its ranks.
3 September 2009 | A large law firm has absorbed a small boutique firm in new merger agreement.
6 August 2009 | Deacons will become Norton Rose, and Blake Dawson Waldron is no more. But law firm name changes are not always so simple, with partner egos and marketing all wanting a say. 1 comment
29 July 2009 | More sport from the world of legal.
21 July 2009 | Another top legal name joins Twitter, the global social and business networking site, today.
21 July 2009 | The Industrial Relations Commission has ruled that employers should be protected from costs incurred when defending unreasonable unfair dismissal claims.
9 July 2009 | Deacons Brisbane-based workplace relations partner Martin Osborne and senior associate Murray Procter discuss how good lawyers will address the commencement of the Fair Work Act 2009.
8 July 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for the Plenary Group as leader of the winning consortium for the $230 million Biosciences Research Centre project
1 July 2009 | As a swag of new appointments became effective in law firms around the country today, Minter Ellison welcomed 15 new partners to its fold. 1 comment
29 June 2009 | The impending merger of Australian firm Deacons and the multinational Norton Rose has hit a snag. 2 comments
26 June 2009 | Draft legislation released last week reveals major changes to land-rich duty that could impact transactions and potentially impose duty on share transfers involving companies with relatively modest landholdings.
12 June 2009 | Pay cuts have replaced layoffs as the money saver de rigeur for law firms.
10 June 2009 | Emails have been going around Deacons, alerting staff to the news that the Sydney chairman, Nick Abrahams, will be sleeping on the streets. 3 comments
9 June 2009 | Federal court judge, Berna Collier, and her husband, Brisbane lawyer Alan Collier, have been forced to repay the legal fees their neighbour accrued in a dispute with the couple.
9 June 2009 | The collapsed $19.5 billion Rio Tinto-Chinalco deal may help foster more deal making from China, a Deacons lawyer has claimed.
26 May 2009 | General counsel are tiring of the onslaught of law firm e-alerts, email legal updates and newsletters being sent to them by law firms touting for work and good will.
21 May 2009 | Law firms have long shined in the world of environmental responsibility. But how has the global economic downturn impacted this green leaning? Biwa Kwan and Kate Gibbs report
18 May 2009 | TressCox Lawyers has confirmed rumours circulating in the legal industry about staff cut-backs in a statement to The New Lawyer.
28 April 2009 | LAWYERS have engaged in a debate over consumer watchdog chairman Graeme Samuel's comments yesterday that many large firms will be underprepared to deal with the criminalisation of cartel activity when it comes into place in the next year.
22 April 2009 | COMPANIES with employees using social networking sites like Twitter should consider enforcing a memo on behaviour like Telstra has, according to the telecommunication giant's general counsel, Will Irving.
21 April 2009 | Just hours after The New Lawyer reports Blake Dawson and Deacons are Twittering for clients, at least two more firms open Twitter accounts.
08:00 AM | Deacons currently has 332 followers, while Blake Dawson has 20. So are the most recent figures of social networking site Twitter, a global site in which individuals, and more recently law firms and other businesses, post “updates” for the world of Twitterers to see. 4 comments
15 April 2009 | Deacons sets up distressed sales unit; Bakers advises on purchase of Adelaide hotel, Anniversary charity dinner for Parramatta firm
31 March 2009 | Barrister Jennifer Davies SC was today appointed as a new judge on the Victorian Supreme Court.