Gold Coast principal reprimanded for borrowing client money
The principal of a boutique firm based in Burleigh Heads has been found guilty of professional misconduct for borrowing money from a client and failing to properly invest ...
SME LAW • Tue, 04 Sep 2018
How do we prepare law students for the future of legal work?
“A law degree can take you anywhere.” Those were the words of a lecturer on the first day of my law degree in 2007, writes Josef co-founder Sam Flynn.
SME LAW • Tue, 04 Sep 2018
Injury firm responds to suicidal refugee and son flown to Australia for urgent treatment
Pursuant to orders made by the Federal Court of Australia in late August, a 31-year-old Somali refugee and her two-year-old son have been transported from Nauru to ...
POLITICS • Tue, 04 Sep 2018
POSCO advised on US$280m acquisition of Argentinian lithium tenements
Korean-listed steel production company POSCO has been advised on its acquisition of lithium tenements from Australian public mining company Galaxy Resources Limited.
BIG LAW • Tue, 04 Sep 2018
Lawyers perceived as only slightly more ethical than bankers
Even in the wake of the banking royal commission, Australians perceive lawyers to be almost as unethical as bankers, insurers and financial services professionals, ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 03 Sep 2018
To all the clerkship applications I’ve cried over before
It is important for law students to ask themselves why they invest so much – physically and emotionally – in the clerkship application process, writes Monash student ...
CAREERS • Mon, 03 Sep 2018
Victoria invests $40.3m into Aboriginal Justice Agreement
The Andrews Labor government in the Garden State has implemented the fourth phase of its Aboriginal Justice Agreement, which aims to strengthen self-determination and ...
POLITICS • Thu, 30 Aug 2018
Quadrant Energy sold for US$2.15bn
Energy company Quadrant has been sold to Santos Limited, in what Clayton Utz has termed one of the most significant M&A transactions in the energy and resources ...
BIG LAW • Wed, 29 Aug 2018
Holding Redlich launches national procurement practice group
National firm Holding Redlich has established a procurement practice group, which it says is in response to growing demand for advice in an area set for “sweeping ...
SME LAW • Wed, 29 Aug 2018
