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Maddocks gains tax duo (2-Sep-2008)
MADDOCKS HAS lured across two tax experts from Mallesons Stephen Jaques.

New banking and finance head at Maddocks (4-Jul-2008)
MADDOCKS HAS brought on corporate finance specialist Sean Rush to head up the firm’s Sydney banking and finance team.

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Firms fight for women in talent war (16-Mar-2008)
HOLDING ONTO good lawyers has never been harder, and with women now making up a clear majority of law graduates, law firms are pulling out all the stops to attract and retain top female legal talent.

Maddocks builds construction strength (31-Jan-2008)
SYDNEY AND Melbourne firm Maddocks has promoted Adam Walters to senior associate in the firm’s construction and major projects team.

M+K takes on Sydney’s middle market (31-Jan-2008)
VICTORIAN COMMERCIAL law firm, Macpherson+Kelley Lawyers has acquired Sydney firm Peter Kemp Solicitors (PKS).

Baby bonus bonanza (21-Nov-2007)
BLAKE DAWSON and Allens Arthur Robinson have responded energetically to the competitive market for legal talent, throwing around maternity leave incentives that rival the Howard Government in election mode.

Freehills, Maddocks on TV deal (19-Nov-2007)
ONE OF the country’s leading television and film production companies, the makers of major movies like Lantana and the Mythbusters series, has made two competing takeover offers with Freehills as its advisor.

Maddocks, HG&R join action for rights activist (23-Oct-2007)
PILCH coordinated the efforts of lawyers from Herbert Geer & Rundle and Maddocks, and helped defeat an action against animal rights activists sued for hindering trade under the secondary boycott provisions of the Trade Practices Act.

HDY turns a new Paige (20-Jul-2007)
NEW SENIOR associate Mark Paige has left Maddocks to return to the front-end construction practice of Henry Davis York.

Maddocks facilitates jail transaction (13-Jul-2007)
MADDOCKS’ PROPERTY group facilitated the exchange of contracts for Sydney-based Valad Property Group Ltd during the purchase of the former Pentridge Prison site in Coburg for $42.5 million.

Victorian Government panel spending on the rise (29-May-2007)
GOVERNMENT SPENDING in Victoria by users of legal services under panel arrangements has risen in 2005/2006 by over 21 per cent, as compared to the previous financial year.

Top-tier firms tight lipped as United Kingdom pay soars (11-May-2007)
AS MAGIC CIRCLE firms in London broadcast record pay increases, Australia’s top six remain fiercely protective of their financial information.

Piper Alderman: rich and hot (27-Apr-2007)
PIPER ALDERMAN has the most friendly working environment, the best work life balance and offers its staff the best career prospects, all of which should make up for its disappointing meeting room biscuits, the final results of a UK online survey of Australian law firms suggest.

Who will be at the Fair this year? (13-Mar-2007)
Teams of partners, summer clerks and human resources managers will storm Sydney’s Darling Harbour on 23 March in order to put their best on display. Here, they hope to draw in the finest legal talent from the hordes of job seekers also attending the Fair. Firms tell us what they have on offer

Maddocks building up with Doria (8-Mar-2007)
The Sydney property group of Maddocks has been bolstered with the recruitment of Maurice Doria as special counsel.

Chisholm accounting for life after the law (16-Feb-2007)
PROVING A long career in the law is no impediment to starting afresh, John Chisholm went from the upper echelons of Maddocks and Middletons to his own consultancy, and more recently the role of part-time chief executive at accounting firm PKF.

Lau new convenor of Victorian Women Lawyers (25-Jan-2007)
VICTORIAN WOMEN LAWYERS has elected a new convenor for 2007, in Justine Lau of Maddocks.

Maddocks wins a Sydney double (17-Jan-2007)
Maddocks’ largest practice division, the commercial group, now has 16 partners with the appointment of Jane Owen and Paul Callaghan.

Maddocks engineers HDY swindle (17-Nov-2006)
MADDOCKS HAS doubled its construction and major projects division by absorbing a team of nine from Henry Davis York (HDY) into its Sydney office.

Aged care specialist for CHH (29-Sep-2006)
Bernard Tan, formerly of firm Maddocks, has been appointed special counsel in the Cutler Hughes & Harris property group

The fun of the fair (11-Aug-2006)
Armed with brochures and goodie, law firms at the Fair will be trying to fill your arms with information, and your head with ideas, on what they are really like. To make it easier for you to navigate the bustle, Alex Boxsell finds out who will be there, what they want, and what they will offer you

Putting your best foot forward (11-Aug-2006)
The Victoria Law Careers Fair offers students a chance to sample a plethora of firms in one easily digestible format

Maddocks builds Sri Lankan relationships (26-May-2006)
Maddocks has contributed to reconstruction efforts in post-tsunami Sri Lanka, assisting with a housing project near Galle in the island’s south-west, one of the worst hit areas of the disaster. The firm provided pro bono legal services to the State Government of Victoria, through the Department of Premier & Cabinet, which was funding the project

Where do the law firms stand?do the law firms stand? (13-Apr-2006)
Law firms’ human resources departments will have to be well informed of the changes wrought by WorkChoices, and ensure their organisation is compliant with any new rules, according to Glenda Beecher, a partner in Maddocks Lawyers’ workplace services group

Gift cards bought out (20-Mar-2006)
Maddocks advised card operator and payments processor, Retail Decisions, on its $30 million acquisition of Australia’s largest pre-paid gift card operator E Com Industries, represented by Mallesons Stephen Jaques.Sydney-based E Com has launched more than 30 gift card schemes in the past three years for blue chip retailers, including Coles Myer and Woolworths. Retail Decisions is listed on the London Stock Exchange

Firms shine in EOWA awards (6-Mar-2006)
FIVE AUSTRALIAN law firms have been recognised by the federal government’s Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) as being leaders in implementing policies and practices that support women across the organisation.

Building up (6-Feb-2006)
Commercial property lawyers, make the most of your weekend. It’s shaping up to be a big year. Kellie Harpley reports

Appointments 20 January 2006 (20-Jan-2006)
Appointments 20 January 2006

Practice areas: Privacy (19-Dec-2005)
Practice areas: Privacy

Practice areas: Privatisation (16-Dec-2005)
Practice areas: Privatisation

Talent exodus shakes firms into action (16-Dec-2005)
COMPETITION FOR talent was the top issue of the year, the managing partners of Australia’s top firms have said in a Lawyers Weekly end of year survey.

The ‘sexy’ issue of 2005: women (16-Dec-2005)
Women in law was touted as being the top issue of 2004, with most firms claiming they would take real steps to ensure the fairer sex has the same access to partnership and opportunities as their male counterparts. A year on, Lawyers Weekly asked Australian firms whether they had made any real progress

Practice areas: Tax (16-Dec-2005)
Practice areas: Tax

Practice areas: Commercial property (16-Dec-2005)
Practice areas: Commercial property

Generation Y questions everything (16-Dec-2005)
AS FIRMS OF all types and sizes shed talent at an alarming rate over the past year, they began to realise the urgency of implementing systems to retain their lawyers. But of particular concern was the incoming generation of lawyers, who want new things from their careers and are prepared to look around the market in order to get them.

Show me the profit-maker (28-Nov-2005)
Maddocks acted for IDP Education Australia on its transformation from a not-for-profit organisation to a profit- making enterprise. IDP is owned by all of Australia’s 38 universities and recruits international students from overseas

A grip for the long haul? (11-Nov-2005)
Governments around the country are being persuaded to improve the way they tender public works to the private sector, but they face criticism that they are favouring public-private partnerships for ideological reasons and without adequate assessment of their risks. Shaun Drummond reports

Which firms will be there? (2-Sep-2005)
Firm listings

Maddocks tailors WTC deal (29-Aug-2005)
Melbourne and Sydney-based law firm Maddocks advised on the $112 million purchase of the World Trade Centre (WTC), which looks set to be the largest property transaction in Melbourne this year

Deals 12 August (15-Aug-2005)
Deals 12 August

Appointments 11 June 2004 (11-Jun-2004)
Appointments 11 June 2004

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