Career Expo and Emerging Leaders Summit 2021 launches

Lawyers Weekly and principal partner The College of Law are excited to announce the launch of the inaugural Career Expo and Emerging Leaders Summit 2021, aimed at ...

BIG LAW • Tue, 06 Apr 2021

Kate Jenkins retains commissioner role amid parliamentary work

New Attorney-General Michaelia Cash has reappointed Kate Jenkins commissioner of the Australian Human Rights Commission following the announcement that she will be ...

BIG LAW • Tue, 06 Apr 2021

Innovating a graduate program with apps and podcasts 

While navigating their way through multiple rotations and networking with lawyers of all different seniority levels, the current and former graduates of a national firm ...

SME LAW • Mon, 05 Apr 2021

Guilty parties remain free in ‘chilling’ Witness K prosecution

Prominent legal professionals have argued that the prosecution of Witness K and Bernard Collaery is targeted at the wrong people and has served only to keep the guilty ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 05 Apr 2021

NSW Police targeting of solicitor ‘completely unacceptable’, Law Society says

Following reports that a police task force harassed a solicitor on the morning of a trial, the NSW Law Society has labelled the targeting “unacceptable” and called on the ...

BIG LAW • Wed, 31 Mar 2021

‘He was just doing his job’: Commission finds police unfairly targeted solicitor

Human rights lawyers have voiced profound concern over reports that a specialist NSW Police task force targeted a solicitor with “deliberate, deceitful and malicious” ...

BIG LAW • Tue, 30 Mar 2021

Porter says ‘no regrets’ on losing A-G position

Former federal attorney-general Christian Porter said he felt he had “no alternatives” but to launch defamation proceedings against the ABC and lose his portfolio.

BIG LAW • Mon, 29 Mar 2021

Shadow A-G takes aim at Michaelia Cash’s ‘appalling’ record

Michaelia Cash’s takeover of the federal Attorney-General portfolio has been met with renewed calls for law reforms in areas of domestic violence and IR, but it has also ...

BIG LAW • Tue, 30 Mar 2021

Judge responds to rule of law controversy in Minters leadership decision

Following the controversial decision to push out MinterEllison chief executive Annette Kimmitt, a NSW Supreme Court judge has warned that while solicitors are not held to ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 29 Mar 2021