A Victorian family lawyer accepted a reprimand for using a former client’s financial statements in a “bitterly contested costs dispute”.
National law firm Sparke Helmore has announced the promotion of five lawyers to senior roles, spanning four key practice areas.
A New Zealand firm is investigating a cyber incident that has impacted confidential client data.
Most people believe they would make a reliable witness. They were present. They paid attention. They remember it clearly. That belief is comforting. It is also largely illusory, writes Rebecca Ward, MBA.
Two specialist equity capital markets lawyers have joined Clayton Utz’s partnership in Perth.
As financial literacy is no longer a nice-to-have skill for lawyers – but increasingly central to long-term career success, sustainability and wellbeing – Cassandra Crawford has revealed the key steps legal professionals need to take to be financially informed and future-ready.
Five legal practices and a solicitor were ordered to hand over material to a man accused of acting as the “shadow director” of several law and accounting firms that all went under within the span of five months.
The Federal Court of Australia ruled that a decision of a senior member of the (now abolished) Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) was affected by apprehended bias, given her “hostile” remarks against the tribunal applicant’s lawyers in her written reasons, among other things, writes Sergio Zanotti Stagliorio.
The career trajectory for young lawyers has long followed a familiar path, but according to the Young Lawyers presidents in NSW and Victoria, one defining trend is set to turn that model on its head this year.
Global law firm Dentons has moved to bolster its dispute resolution team with the addition of Melbourne-based litigator, Sarah Fregon.
