04 July 2008 | by James Eyers
NSW lawyers have lambasted regulations introduced by the state government that introduce a criminal offence for causing "annoyance or inconvenience" to participants in World Youth Day, the Catholic festival beginning in Sydney on July 15.
04 July 2008 | by Alex Boxsell
Litigation Lending Services is planning to double its capital while considering a public listing to compete with Australia's dominant litigation funder, IMF Australia, for plaintiffs in major class actions.
04 July 2008 | by Marsha Jacobs
With criticism growing that judges are not doing enough to control parties in major cases, NSW Supreme Court judge Ian Gzell has laid down a strict timetable for the James Hardie litigation in an attempt to keep the trial within its three-month schedule.
04 July 2008 | by James Eyers
Government departments embroiled in disputes will be forced to consider alternatives to litigation and must provide more comprehensive information about their use of lawyers to the Attorney-General's Department, after the first wave of reforms to the commonwealth procurement of legal services came into force this week.
04 July 2008 | by Alex Boxsell
Freehills and Allens Arthur Robinson led the profession for announced mergers and acquisitions activity in 2008, which surged 81 per cent in the six months to July compared to the same period in 2007, inflated by the proposed mergers of BHP Billiton-Rio Tinto and Westpac Banking Corp-St George.
04 July 2008 | by James Eyers
East Timor has passed laws to regulate the legal profession as the NSW Law Society and Law Council of Australia prepare to visit the country next week to strengthen ties with those responsible for developing the justice system.
04 July 2008 | by Marsha Jacobs
Victorian Women Lawyers had two wins in the one case in the Federal Court last week.
04 July 2008 | by Alex Boxsell
A dearth of senior associates in Australia has created a nation of hour-glass shaped firms, with the pressure of the bulk of transactional work being shifted to partners and junior lawyers.
04 July 2008 | by Alex Boxsell
With many of the nation's largest firms keeping their overall partner numbers static for the six months to July, and women still failing to break past 40 per cent of total partners in any firm, in-house legal careers are increasingly attractive for women.
04 July 2008 | by Alex Boxsell
As major companies look to preserve profit by cutting non-essential expenses, in-house legal teams are handling an increasingly broad array of advice as an alternative to paying fees to private practice.
04 July 2008 | by Alex Boxsell
Freehills chief executive Gavin Bell last week said that 70-year-old partner Bob Baxt works harder than most of the firm's 30-year-olds; but a select group of new partners at other firms might give Professor Baxt a run for his money.
04 July 2008 | by James Eyers
With corporate books now ruled off, accountants working at companies that engaged in litigation during the past financial year will be seeking tax deductions for those legal expenses
04 July 2008 | by James Eyers
When asked to name the biggest changes to affect the Australian judiciary during his tenure as a judge, High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson put the move of the magistracy from the executive to the judicial branch of government on the top of his list, in an interview with The Australian Financial Review last month.
04 July 2008 | by Arthur Moses. Arthur Moses is a barrister at the NSW bar
The federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland announced last week that the Rudd government was seeking the views of the state attorneys-general on establishing a national judicial body to hear complaints against state and federal judges.
04 July 2008 | by Edited by James Eyers, with Alex Boxsell hearsay@afr.com.au
Is the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts jnr, a true Bob Dylan fan? That's the question being asked in US legal circles this week, after Roberts slipped a line from Like a Rolling Stone into one of his opinions last week in place of a precedent.
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