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Bonuses, promotions and court claims: What’s hot in law this week (12-16 June)
Legal news isn’t showing any signs of slowing down as EOFY approaches. Here is your weekly round-up of the biggest stories for Australia’s legal profession.
Jerome Doraisamy
For the week from 12 June to 16 June, these were the 10 most-read stories on Lawyers Weekly (in case you missed them):
A Brisbane firm has had to defend itself against a former client who claimed she could not contest her invoices over fears she would be left to deal with a Family Court matter on her own.
National law firm Gadens is the latest BigLaw firm to unveil a new cohort of partners, with seven making the grade. With this new round of promotions, the firm has elevated nine to the partnership so far this year, and 40 per cent of that partnership is now female.
A Sydney lawyer’s name has been struck from the roll of practitioners following a number of sensational allegations, including that a senior member had been “staring at him” and the NSW Bar Association and the council “orchestrated” a campaign against him professionally.
A regional criminal lawyer was forced to defend a decision to open his new practice within a minute’s walk of his former firm.
FEATURE: After recent claims that the current school hours are “sexist” and rely on the fact that women are responsible for the school pick-up, are nine-to-five working hours similar — and do these hours negatively affect female lawyers and their career trajectory?
With risk management experts in such demand for governance purposes, general counsel and company secretaries are seeing sizable remuneration increases and performance bonuses, new research has found.
A man has dragged the NSW Law Society into yet another legal fight over allegations he made about his deceased solicitor.
With Bruce Lehrmann’s highly publicised defamation hearing against Network Ten proceeding without a jury, a legal expert has weighed in on what to expect from the hearing.
A Supreme Court said it was faced with an “unusual” matter when a former prisoner attempted to bring disciplinary proceedings against one of Australia’s biggest compensation firms.
Jerome Doraisamy
Jerome Doraisamy is the editor of Lawyers Weekly. A former lawyer, he has worked at Momentum Media as a journalist on Lawyers Weekly since February 2018, and has served as editor since March 2022. He is also the host of all five shows under The Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network, and has overseen the brand's audio medium growth from 4,000 downloads per month to over 60,000 downloads per month, making The Lawyers Weekly Show the most popular industry-specific podcast in Australia. Jerome is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in NSW, and a board director of Minds Count.
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