News

This year has opened a window for emerging leaders in the SME law space to not only carve out expertise in chosen niches, but also build their practices from the ground up in ways that make sense to them, rather than unlearning established habits.

Sole practitioners who are expanding their firms to have employees need to identify which business tasks they can manage themselves and which need to be done externally – making such calls can require some trial and error.

The end-of-year intensity for family lawyers is shaping up to be different in the age of coronavirus as compared to previous years, and provides some clues as to what will constitute success for such practitioners in a post-pandemic world.

A new framework, put together by Legal Aid Queensland and the Queensland Law Society, will see legal practitioners better placed respond to and support clients impacted by domestic and family violence.

Exclusive research has revealed what lawyers think about their firms’ performance this year, from both a corporate and personal perspective.

New specialist lawyer transformation roles have been created in the first of its kind by a global law firm, designed to meet the increasingly complex demands and challenges emerging post-pandemic.

Although it is hard to beat the extent to which Nicola Gobbo breached legal obligations, professional privilege and disrupted the whole of the criminal justice system in Victoria, the commission found a number of other lawyers at risk of their own Lawyer X scandal.

Metigy has completed a $20 million capital raise, led by private equity firm Cygnet Capital.

Under new recommendations by the Law Institute of Victoria, firms are being encouraged to report on and track ethnic diversity to ensure the profession breaks down discriminatory barriers.

A global law firm with six Australian offices has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions to net zero in 10 years’ time.