A sound collaboration between partners and their marketing and HR teams could be the key to understanding client needs, Corrs Chambers Westgarth HR and marketing director, Cindy Carpenter, said Wednesday.
Melbourne will continue to be at the forefront of the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) movement despite the fact Sydney will host the new Australian International Disputes Centre (AIDC), claims the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV).
Young lawyers are entering the workforce with unrealistic and misguided expectations, writes Claire Chaffey, leading to dissatisfaction and poor retention rates.
The GFC was kinder to in-house lawyers than their private practice cousins, but the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association is not ready to declare a win just yet.
The first students of the new Juris Doctor (JD) program at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have begun classes this week, adding to the growing number of students entering legal studies via alternate means.
Norton Rose has appointed four new partners to its team, taking one from Mallesons, another from Dibbs Barker and pulling a previous employee out of retirement.
Animal protection and animal law represent the world's next social justice movement, a leading animal lawyer has told Lawyers Weekly.
A number of law firms are this week sprucing their female-friendly workplaces, after being included in the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency's (EOWA) Employer of Choice for Women list.
Freehills has rejected claims that former lawyer Nicole Stransky suffered age discrimination and bullying during her two-year stint at the firm from 2006.
The University of Technology Sydney's Communications Law Centre (CLC) was officially launched this week at Clayton Utz, following a panel discussion on the Federal Government's national broadband network (NBN) project.
A proposal that long term, recurrent and intense sexual fantasies leading to sexual assault will be re-defined as a mental illness, known as paraphilic coercive disorder (PCD), has outraged special interest groups in Australia.
Gilbert + Tobin has celebrated a significant win this week, acting as the principal adviser to the NSW Treasury on the sale of NSW Lotteries.
Melbourne University law professor Tim McCormack has been appointed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague as special adviser on international humanitarian law.