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Boutique law firms can no longer be a “one-stop shop” for clients, but what they can do is provide specific yet holistic services for select clients by way of a corporate counsel-style engagement.

Success as a sole practitioner is much more difficult without professional relationships whereby all service providers can benefit, as well as the clients.

Legal businesses across the country are focused on keeping their heads above water, but ensuring one’s personal life is also taken care of is just as critical.

With chronic underfunding to family violence legal assistance turning away 40 per cent of victims, Women’s Legal Services Australia has appealed for a rescue package.

International law firm Ashurst has hired a director from Herbert Smith Freehills to serve as global COO of its NewLaw division, Ashurst Advance.

The Lawyer X inquiry’s counsel assisting have accused Victoria Police of trying to avoid individual blame in its most recent apology. The sensational criticisms come as lawyers for the commission continue to poke holes in the allegations levelled against them.

COVID-19 has significantly hampered the work of practitioners in the migration law space, but the pandemic does open a window to rethink how migration operates in Australia.

National firm Mills Oakley has expanded its workplace relations team by appointing a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright.

The solicitor-general representing the health bureaucrat behind Melbourne’s city-wide, temporary curfew has continued to discredit the argument that the direction had in any way breached the human rights of one particular resident before the Supreme Court.

South Australian family-owned hotel group Matthews Hospitality has been advised on its acquisition, restructure and refinancing.