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Global law firm MinterEllison has advised Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority on its $42 million boutique hotel.

Herbert Smith Freehills has completed an in-depth review of its remuneration process, revealing it owed graduate staff additional payments between $5,000 and $20,000.

Allowing clients to source their own documentation and discovery collection may seem to be a time-saving and cost-cutting solution on the surface, but it might just undermine the ethics and professionalism of lawyers and courts, cautioned prominent US judges.

Concerns about the criteria for appointment and power of an “authorised officer” under the Omnibus Bill have been raised by the Australian Bar Association and Victorian Bar.

New research from BOCSAR has revealed the NSW Drug Court has led to significantly lower reconviction rates among offenders diverted through its program.

The political and legal professions have mourned the loss of Susan Ryan, praising her work as a role model and trailblazer who forever changed both sectors for the better. 

A barrister representing a restauranteur that has taken a health bureaucrat to Victoria’s Supreme Court has argued on her behalf that the curfew imposed by the Premier – on top of other restrictive orders to govern COVID-19 movements – was a “step too far”.

A tribunal has allowed the appeal of a Sydney-based solicitor, removing his professional misconduct finding and subsequent penalties.

The federal government’s proposal to adopt US-style insolvency rules to support small businesses with the COVID-19 economic crisis may be a welcome initiative, but a lack of consultation with the industry and a tight time frame is “very concerning”.

All emerging leaders in law should be challenging the status quo and asking themselves, “What would RBG do?”, writes Cassandra Taylor.