Powered by MOMENTUMMEDIA
Powered by MOMENTUM MEDIA
Get breaking news. Sign up to our Newsletter
Naomi Neilson is a senior journalist with a focus on court reporting for Lawyers Weekly. You can email Naomi at: [email protected]
1 in 4 lawyers will leave if not given better pay, survey reveals
One in four lawyers plan to leave their current workplace in the next couple of years, but better pay and flexible working arrangements might convince them to stay, a new ...
BIG LAW • Sun, 22 Dec 2024
Barrister struck from roll over claims ‘of most serious kind’ against solicitor
A barrister who once accused a tribunal member of “staring at him” and tried to have an entire bench recused has been removed from the roll of legal practitioners for ...
BIG LAW • Thu, 19 Dec 2024
Top 10 Fair Work and lawyer termination stories in 2024
Over the last 12 months several lawyers were ousted and many of them turned to the Fair Work Commission for compensation. Here we take a look at the top 10 stories ...
BIG LAW • Wed, 18 Dec 2024
Top 10 class action stories in 2024
There were a lot of major moves in the class action space, including the filing of new proceedings, competitions among firms, and criticisms of “eye-watering” legal costs
BIG LAW • Tue, 17 Dec 2024
Partner wrongly accused of ‘gaslighting’ woman about Rio Tinto rape
A former employee of a mining company that operated under the Rio Tinto umbrella accused a partner from a major firm of “gaslighting” her when she came forward to report ...
Solicitor persists with ‘hopeless’ vendetta against firm
A solicitor has been on a seemingly endless crusade to punish a principal lawyer who called the police to kick him out of a law firm.
Google hit with adtech class action
Google was hit with a class action by publishing companies that alleged they suffered losses as a result of its misuse of market power in the advertisement technology ...
New judge elected to Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
A judge praised for her “tireless” commitment to the legal profession and the field of family law has been appointed to division one of the Federal Circuit and Family ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 16 Dec 2024
Victoria’s new Chief Justice named
A new Chief Justice of the Victorian Supreme Court has been named.