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.
Deacons partner Elisa de Wit shares her predictions on what, if any, binding agreements can be made before the world's leaders leave Copenhagen.
The UN Climate Change Conference has kicked off in Copenhagen, and Baker & McKenzie and Deacons have teams on the ground to covering the action.
Proposed reforms to franchising laws, announced recently by the Federal Government, have been praised as "pragmatic and reasoned" by a franchising law specialist.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has dropped two top-tier firms from its legal panel but made a number of new small-and-mid-sized firm appointments to regional panels.
The merging of two top-tier Australian firms to create a "mega firm" was predicted as an impact of the global financial crisis by law firm consultant George Beaton last week.
The Large Law Firm Group has welcomed the Australian Government's blueprint for national reform but has warned against a "one size fits all" approach to new regulatory structures.
The much anticipated Deacons/Norton Rose merger will see the emergence of a new global force on the climate change law scene.
The Rudd Government's CPRS failed to make it through the Senate today.
With the Rudd Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) up before the Senate for the first time tomorrow, businesses are hopeful, though not exactly confident, that they'll finally get the certainty they need.
Deacons has released its second annual pro bono report, showing that in 2008 more than 40 of the firm's partners and 180 staff assisted more than 110 national, state and local organisations and individuals on a pro bono basis.
Minter Ellison have made 35 staff members redundant, including 11 lawyers, in response to a recent softening in demand for legal services in some areas, said chief executive partner John Weber
With a number of top-tier law firms getting active on Twitter, the 140 charters per update platform might just be the medium that finally gets Australian lawyers participating online.
With the World Health Organisation (WHO) today indicating that a worldwide swine flu pandemic is "imminent", employers should be actively considering their OHS responsibilities.
A SURVEY has found employers are increasingly changing their employment intentions in view of an impending recession, but lawyers warn that staff dismissal should occur only when all other avenues of survival have been pursued.
