15 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
A Sydney barrister and a Wagga Wagga solicitor found to have acted corruptly could face prosecution after the NSW government was allegedly cheated over a client's legal costs.
12 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Outgoing Chief Justice Michael Black realised early on that court buildings should reflect what the community thought about the justice system.
12 March 2010 | Hannah Low | The Australian Financial Review
In-house lawyers are more concerned about protecting the confidentiality of their advice to company boards than defending class actions or complying with the Australian Securities Exchange's disclosure regulations, an extensive survey of in house lawyers has found.
12 March 2010 | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
Although the Law Society of England and Wales
12 March 2010 | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
Freehills has the most listings on this year's Best Lawyers list, which is published in a special liftout in today's
12 March 2010 | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
The Law Society of England and Wales
12 March 2010 | Hannah Low | The Australian Financial Review
There was almost unanimous agreement among representatives of the legal and litigation funding industries at a meeting with Treasury on Wednesday, that funding arrangements should not be regulated by way of managed investment schemes.
12 March 2010 | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
One of Blake Dawson's main advisers to BHP Billiton over its aborted merger with Rio Tinto is jumping ship to join the client as chief legal counsel.
12 March 2010 | Rachel Nickless | The Australian Financial Review
The latest Best Lawyers survey, published in today's
12 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
The tough reality of sharing the parenting after a family breakdown is in the spotlight after a court ruling forcing a mother to stay in a remote mining town.
12 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
The list is from the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in Australia, which lists lawyers in priva...
12 March 2010 | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
Many lawyers have an attitude like
12 March 2010 | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
Leading competition lawyers are preparing for a new national Australian consumer law regime next year that will give regulators unprecedented powers.
12 March 2010 | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
In an attempt to expand its liquified natural gas assets, Royal Dutch Shell confirmed this week that it had joined forces with PetroChina in a $3.3 billion-plus takeover offer for Arrow Energy, which is producing and searching for gas around Gladstone, north of Brisbane.
12 March 2010 | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
When the owners of Myer and Kathmandu decided to exit their investments by floating the companies last year, private equity teams at the large law firms were cheering.
12 March 2010 | Patrick Durkin | The Australian Financial Review
The partners at Cochrane Lishman Carson Luscombe consider themselves somewhat a quadrella or in poker parlance, four of a kind.
12 March 2010 | John Kehoe | The Australian Financial Review
Duncan Baxter jokes that he was probably the highest-ever paid article clerk when he joined Blake Dawson just over five years ago.
12 March 2010 | Hannah Low | The Australian Financial Review
Insolvency appointments were not as frequent as expected after the GFC, but SMEs and commercial property may be vulnerable this year.
12 March 2010 | Rachel Nickless | The Australian Financial Review
Kate Jenkins is one of only two women to make the Best Lawyers list for labour and employment lawyers in Australia, and played a leading role in setting up the Freehills discrimination law practice, but she had such ambitions when she started out.
12 March 2010 | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
When Clayton Utz opens its Hong Kong office in April, the firm aims to build on its Australian experience in major projects to grow its share of infrastructure work in the Asia region.
12 March 2010 | Hannah Low | The Australian Financial Review
"Society has moved to a point where they don't respect creators" says Kate Haddock, founding partner of boutique firm Banki Haddock Fiora.
12 March 2010 | Marsha Jacobs | The Australian Financial Review
A mild rather than catastrophic downturn has meant that courtrooms across the country have been quieter than expected in the wake of the economic crisis.
12 March 2010 | Marsha Jacobs | The Australian Financial Review
Melbourne barrister Neil Young, QC, is involved in most of the major corporate disputes happening in Australia.
