Boutique firm penalised for underpaying staff

A Bankstown law firm has been hit with pecuniary penalties after it failed to pay an employee the minimum wage.

BIG LAW • Sun, 03 Mar 2024

Sydney woman tries to escape $500k legal fees debt

A Sydney woman who sued Coles has complained about the almost $500,000 in fees she owes to two compensation firms.

BIG LAW • Sun, 03 Mar 2024

Solicitor faces ACCC, disciplinary hearing for allegedly misleading creditor scheme

A Sydney solicitor is facing disciplinary and ACCC proceedings in connection with an allegedly misleading and “bulletproof” scheme to sell a program that claimed to ...

BIG LAW • Thu, 29 Feb 2024

Solicitor shot inside Sydney law firm

A family lawyer was shot and wounded inside his Sydney law firm.

BIG LAW • Wed, 28 Feb 2024

Lawyer asks entire bench to recuse itself from disciplinary hearing

A lawyer tried to have an entire Court of Appeal bench recused from hearing an application to have his name struck off.

BIG LAW • Wed, 28 Feb 2024

Qantas ordered to compensate fired safety rep

A court ordered Qantas to compensate a health and safety representative it unlawfully stood down during the pandemic.

BIG LAW • Wed, 28 Feb 2024

What the gender pay gap looks like at Australia’s biggest firms

New workplace data has revealed the gender pay gap at Australia’s largest legal workplaces. Here, Lawyers Weekly lists the firms with the best and worst gender salary ...

BIG LAW • Tue, 27 Feb 2024

ICAC took ‘dangerous’ view of Berejiklian’s ‘attachment’ to MP, court told

The “attachment” former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian had with MP Daryl Maguire should not have been the foundation for ICAC’s corruption finding, a Supreme Court was ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Class action into illegal cartel conduct requests ‘unusual’ registration process

Respondents to a class action into alleged illegal cartel conduct in the foreign exchange market have taken the “unusual” step of asking potential group members to be ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 26 Feb 2024