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A Sydney firm and a senior counsel with a “longstanding professional association” have found themselves locked in a fee dispute.

Global law firm Mallesons has appointed a new chair from within its own ranks, following the formal separation of the Chinese and Australian partnerships of King & Wood Mallesons.

Moving from BigLaw competitor Clifford Chance, competition and antitrust lawyer Mark Grime joins as a partner in Thomson Geer’s Sydney office.

At the heart of the defamation battle between Charlotte MacInnes and Rebel Wilson lies a formidable question: who will the court believe? An expert unpacks the critical role of credibility, how cross-examination played a part, and the evidence poised to define the case’s outcome.

Kyle Sandilands and Jacqueline Henderson’s fallout with ARN Media is as much about contracts as it is about conduct. In this interview, an employment lawyer breaks down where personality-driven broadcasting ends and where contractual obligations begin.

The idea that insurance law needs to be “geopolitics-aware” is not new, but the flow-on consequences of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz mean that such thinking “no longer sits at the margins”.

Amid high inflation, another interest rate hike, and a Middle East conflict that shows no signs of abating, legal practitioners nationwide will be wondering whether their elevated standing to purchase property still holds.

A routine feature of global legal practice is about to become far more complex, as incoming AML reforms force law firms facilitating international payments to tighten controls and rethink how transactions are managed.

A Townsville firm was given a notice to produce documents relating to an investigation into its alleged claim farming, including material that could potentially link it to a deregistered law firm.

A barrister who was jailed and suspended from practising law after causing the death of a pensioner in a dangerous driving incident has been granted permission to return to legal practice.