Qld partner suspended from practice for 3 years
The former partner of a Queensland-based firm has been suspended from practising as a legal practitioner for a period of three years for misappropriating over $250,000.
SME LAW • Tue, 05 Mar 2019
Safety officials to be placed in family law courts
The Morrison government has announced that it will place state and territory child protection and family safety officials in family law courts across Australia, as part ...
POLITICS • Tue, 05 Mar 2019
Ironbark coal seam gas project bought for $231m
Australian coal seam gas producer Australia Pacific LNG has purchased the Ironbark project from Origin Energy for nearly a quarter of a billion Australian dollars.
BIG LAW • Tue, 05 Mar 2019
Macpherson Kelley welcomes back principal
National firm Macpherson Kelley has re-hired a corporate regulatory and M&A specialist as a principal in its Sydney office.
SME LAW • Tue, 05 Mar 2019
Mills Oakley expands its ranks in Brisbane
National firm Mills Oakley has boosted its corporate practice group in Queensland, with the hiring of a new partner for its Brisbane office.
SME LAW • Tue, 05 Mar 2019
What are Aus businesses most worried about in 2019?
New research has uncovered the top issues that Australian chief legal officers expect their legal departments, and the businesses within which they sit, to be facing this ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 05 Mar 2019
The benefits to in-house counsel in briefing barristers
In a recent Lawyers Weekly podcast, Australian Bar Association president Jennifer Batrouney QC argued that there are many advantages in directly briefing the bar for ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 05 Mar 2019
Time-based billing helps firms be more profitable
Despite movement away from billable hours from segments of the legal profession, new research has indicated that law firms that bill at least half of their work by the ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 04 Mar 2019
HSF warns of challenging IPO climate in 2019
Issuers and investors will continue to be challenged by “volatile” market conditions in IPO activity as 2019 progresses, before the emergence of light at the end of the ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 04 Mar 2019
