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A Sydney lawyer turned café operator has been penalised almost $100,000 in the Federal Circuit Court for short-changing a foreign worker as part of a...

The recipient of the Lawyers Weekly Sole Practitioner of the Year award has announced she has expanded her firm’s offering to the Australian legal m...

A burgeoning new industry has emerged in law in the past five years, which has required a fundamental rethink of the business of legal practice, accor...

Issues arising with the retirements of the Baby Boomer generation are creating new challenges for those in mergers and acquisitions, according to the ...

Mills Oakley has announced what it calls a strategic partnership with a university to enable both parties to be at the forefront of legal innovation i...

Clayton Utz partners have been accused of being influenced by their client AMP in producing a so-called independent review of misconduct at the financ...

According to Dr Karen O’Connell, gender inequality is a problem that has been plaguing women in Australia’s legal profession for far too long, but...

A new guide has been launched which aims to help legal practitioners on how best to engage an expert in a litigious matter. ...

Angela Pearson will commence her new role as general counsel of the global law firm from 1 May. ...

The national firm and international business management software provider last week announced a new partnership. ...

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has heard that Brian Salter, the general counsel o...

The tenth edition of the Insurance Contracts Act Handbook has this month been launched at the Sydney office of MinterEllison. ...

The federal government has agreed to bring a child in mandatory detention on Nauru to Australia for medical treatment, following urgent court applicat...

There is an underlying eagerness among Australian regulators to address criticism of the national enforcement record on foreign bribery and corruption...

Aged-care providers in Queensland that handed off thousands of elderly residents to hospital emergency departments rather than provide in-house medica...

The founder of an Australian law firm has expressed the need for less billable hour targets as a way to help address the growing mental health crisis ...

Last week, the Tasmanian Parliament apologised for the pain suffered by the LGBTQI community under the state’s former laws for the criminalisation o...