10 June 2010 | An environment specialist has left DLA Phillips Fox for international firm Baker & McKenzie.
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.
18 February 2010 | Freehills managing partner Peter Butler has resigned from the top post at the firm and has decided to "return to his roots as a commercial litigator", the firm's chief executive has announced.
16 November 2009 | Employers can be liable if they dismiss an employee because of a genuinely-held belief in climate change, an employment appeal tribunal has ruled.
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
19 October 2009 | The formal merger is yet to occur, but Deacons and Norton Rose are getting awfully close.
9 October 2009 | In a bid to make money out of thin air, AGL Energy has sold the long-term offtake and management of its Hallett 4 wind farm in South Australia to the Energy Infrastructure Investments group.
6 October 2009 | Less than 12 months after opening the doors of its Newcastle office, Brisbane-based law firm McCullough Robertson has expanded its team of lawyers.
17 August 2009 | Erin Brockovich, the famous lawyer activist who was thrown into the spotlight after Julia Roberts portrayal of her in a self-titled movie in 2000, is teaming up with an Australian law firm to unearth a swag of environmental disasters in this country.
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
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.