A boutique firm and its principal are on the hook for at least $2.5 million in costs orders for overcharging its government client, including by billing for an uplift fee that was never agreed on.
National law firm Johnson Winter Slattery has appointed a mergers and acquisitions and private equity partner from BigLaw firm Baker McKenzie.
My time living overseas gave me clarity on the career I wanted to forge as an energy lawyer when I returned home to Australia and equipped me with the requisite tools to thrive throughout my legal profession, writes Stephanie Centorame.
The NSW government’s Early Drug Diversion Initiative faces backlash from the Aboriginal Legal Service, which says that police discretion is harming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
In the high-pressure world of corporate law, technical expertise and strategic thinking are often seen as the hallmarks of effective leadership. Yet one seasoned in-house legal leader has revealed a surprising trait that truly sets the strongest leaders apart.
The unfair dismissal case involving the partner Keli Lane has tested the legal limits of employer oversight, with one seasoned lawyer sharing that it was the first time he saw a job lost “because of a relationship with someone who has been convicted of a criminal offence”.
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a lawyer’s application to impose costs on his former employer after it withdrew its objection against him.
Australian mid-tier firm HopgoodGanim Lawyers has appointed the former chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Clayton Utz, who spent 13 years leading the global law firm.
A renewable energy specialist and an environmental law expert have joined Keypoint Law as consulting principals.
Queensland’s $150 threshold is a relic of cassette-tape mercy in a contactless world. It once stood for compassion; now it stands for inertia. Inflation changed everything, except empathy, writes Rebecca Ward, MBA.
