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A notice of appeal prepared for a penalised doctor contained a deficiency that has been criticised time and again, including in a nine-year-old decision that featured the same law firm and counsel.
The Australian Lawyers Alliance’s new president has big plans for the next 12 months, including continuing its crucial advocacy on small business insurance, promoting information sharing across the country, and setting the 30-year-old organisation up for future success.
New research from James Cook University suggests that the processes inherent to litigation can cause lasting damage to practitioners.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has strengthened its corporate practice by appointing a veteran partner from rival BigLaw firm Baker McKenzie.
The Law Council of Australia has called on all levels of government to properly evaluate and resource the downstream impacts on the justice system resulting from new legislative, policy, and program initiatives.
Velocity Legal has strengthened its family law offering with the appointment of an accredited family law specialist with more than a decade of exclusive practice in the area.
This week is Brain Injury Awareness Week, and the theme for this year is “Brain injury: many pathways, one community”. For many people returning to work after sustaining a TBI, careful planning is essential to ensure their return is neither premature nor unsafe for them or those that they work alongside, writes Nickelle Morris.
As dumping videos go viral on social media, a principal lawyer has warned that throwing out an ex-partner’s belongings can carry serious legal consequences, with emotional distress offering no defence and the conduct potentially amounting to illegal dumping or domestic violence.
Lawyers are putting flexibility ahead of money, with more than six in 10 saying they would sacrifice part of their salary for the chance to work fully remotely, according to new research.
To protect the public and uphold the reputation of the profession, a tribunal has recommended that a Queensland family lawyer be removed from the roll, finding that lesser penalties for his historic misconduct have not had their “intended effect”.