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At one of Australia’s biggest firms, unionised lawyers and staff undertook a strike over pay and entitlements, and an award-winning national practice was acquired by a global national security advisory body. Here is your weekly round-up of the biggest stories for Australia’s legal profession.
For the week from 1 March to 7 March, these were the 10 most-read stories on Lawyers Weekly (in case you missed them):
1. Lawyer hits out at ex-wife with 50-plus complaints to Legal Practice Board
A legal practitioner in the midst of a parenting dispute with his ex-wife, also a lawyer, has been criticised for the dozens of complaints he has made about her and her solicitors to the Legal Practice Board.
2. Former company secretary and legal adviser charged following ASIC investigation
Three former Irexchange executives, including a former company secretary and legal adviser, have appeared in the Local Court of NSW, having been charged with breaches of the Corporations Act.
3. ‘Doomed to fail’: Solicitor pushes ahead with futile claims against law firm
Apparently not dissuaded from being shut down and criticised by multiple courts and the Fair Work Commission, a solicitor has pushed ahead with a “hopeless and doomed to fail” application for leave to appeal against a decision in favour of his former law firm.
4. Prosecutor pushed out of ODPP over ‘serious’ blunders
A solicitor has fought against his termination from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions over several allegations of poor performance, including questioning advice from more senior lawyers, rejecting a plea offer without authority, and leaving counsel uninstructed.
5. Gender pay gaps getting worse in Aussie law firms
Australia’s biggest law firms had their gender pay data exposed for the second year in a row. Here, Lawyers Weekly takes a look into the new figures and reveals whether those gaps got better or worse.
6. Proximity acquired by global advisory services provider
National law firm Proximity has been acquired by an advisory services provider, with CEO Zoe Lynam to lead a new combined team of more than 130 employees across Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide.
7. Solicitor ‘deliberately’ breached Harman undertaking
A solicitor with a South Australian boutique firm was found to have deliberately breached the Harman undertaking by using documents that disclosed the location of an opposing party.
8. Maurice Blackburn’s fight with employees over pay ramps up
Unionised lawyers and staff at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers will engage in industrial action, setting the stage for a major escalation in what has been a continued back and forth over pay disputes.
9. Maurice Blackburn changes striking staff’s ‘out-of-office’ emails
According to Maurice Blackburn employees engaged in industrial action, the national plaintiff law firm adapted their out-of-office automated emails to remove any reference to industrial action currently underway or the ongoing bargaining disputes.
10. Ex-parole board lawyer claims boss colluded with judge
A commissioner said he had “significant concerns” for a lawyer and former acting director of Queensland’s Parole Board who accused her boss of colluding with a Supreme Court justice in official misconduct.
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