12:00AM | Brad Hatch | The Australian Financial Review
The interview process is tough, the hours are long and beach time is crunched - but the good news is that there are more summer clerkships on offer at Australia's law firms than there were last year.
12:00AM | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
Listed presettlement and disbursement lender Ask Funding's profit slumped in the 2009-10 financial year as tight credit conditions hampered its business model and it sought debt financing to protect against an uncertain economy.
12:00AM | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
The federal government's attempts over decades to restrict judicial review of migration decisions has had unintended consequences.
12:00AM | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
DLA Phillips Fox announced this week its office will merge with local tax and corporate law boutique Rankine Tucker.
12:00AM | Katie Walsh | The Australian Financial Review
Despite a year of horror in 2009, where law firms slashed excess blubber - and sometimes bone - and graduates sweated a tough job market, today's students are optimistic about their prospective careers as they plough through the summer clerkship interview process. And firms consider that they're in a good position to offer students what they want.
12:00AM | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
Two weeks ago, High Court Chief Justice
12:00AM | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
The war for legal talent has spurred local and international law firms in Australia to launch a range of programs designed to give lawyers overseas experience.
12:00AM | Nicole Rich | The Australian Financial Review
The first tranche of the landmark Australian consumer law reforms came into force in April, giving Australia's consumer regulators new powers.
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
Having played 34 games for St Kilda from 1978 to 1981, it's no surprise Federal Court judge Mordy Bromberg is a mad Saints fan.
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
Mick Gooda, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner, says financial barriers are not the only obstacles to justice for indigenous Australians.
12:00AM | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
Law firms should move swiftly to implement mentoring programs for lawyers with anxiety and depression and establish referral pathways to facilitate access to experienced medical professionals, the Australian of the Year, Professor Patrick McGorry, told the annual Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation lecture last night.
27 August 2010 | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
The High Court is scrutinising the offshore processing regime for asylum seekers, after hearing arguments this week that decisions by the immigration minister and department officials should be subjected to the same level of legal scrutiny those relating to asylum seekers who arrive onshore.
27 August 2010 | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
Future pay rises for federal judges and magistrates may be affected by the government's restructure of federal courts, following 4.1 per cent pay rises dished out by the independent Remuneration Tribunal this week.
27 August 2010 | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
The Law Council of Australia does not support a broad power for a new ombudsman to subject law firms to compliance audits and make directions on practice management systems.
27 August 2010 | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
Litigation funder
27 August 2010 | Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
Large law firms have been boosting the pro bono legal work their lawyers do each year, but industry experts say this alone will not solve chronic problems restricting access to justice in Australia.
27 August 2010 | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
The practise of hourly billing is thwarting attempts by courts and governments to expedite litigation, and lawyers' pay structures should be reviewed to make courts more efficient, one of Victoria's most senior commercial judges has said.
27 August 2010 | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
The next target for the man who almost succeeded in bringing down the Rudd stimulus is commonwealth spending under various National Partnership Agreements.
27 August 2010 | Graham Maher | The Australian Financial Review
The NSW Attorney-General has this month announced plans to introduce new class action laws which will give the NSW Supreme Court the power to order that unclaimed damages awarded in class actions be paid to a public interest beneficiary which is not a party to, or represented in, the proceedings.
27 August 2010 | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
The competition mafia convened at the Palazzo Versace on election day - not in Italy alas, but the next best thing: the Gold Coast - for the annual trade practices workshop, organised by the very secretive Law Council of Australia.
