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Australia’s BigLaw firms are welcoming staff back into their West Australian offices, albeit in staggered and conservative fashions.

Australia’s class action space is among the best in the world and Parliament should recognise this, say plaintiff firms.

Bolstering one’s ability to acclimate to the unprecedented circumstances of a global pandemic will help lawyers better serve clients, at a time when such service is most needed.

Australia has made tremendous progress in limiting the effects of COVID-19 and all indications are that we are on the path to socio-economic recovery. For many businesses, this means a return to work for employees who have been working from home.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has been advised on the sale of its 55 per cent stake in Colonial First State to a global investment firm.

A drug trafficker with a known association to the infamous Tony Mokbel has asked for bail as the Victorian Crown prosecutor conceded Nicola Gobbo interfered with his prosecution.

A tribunal attached to the Supreme Court of Queensland has recommended that a lawyer be removed from the roll of practitioners for depositing $20,000 of a client’s payment into her own private account, contravening the Legal Profession Act 2007.

Herbert Smith Freehills has expanded its financial services regulatory practice with the addition of a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright.

A digital upheaval due to the coronavirus pandemic has adapted the way many approach the law. This is much the same for legal education, according to UNSW Law head of school and deputy dean Andrew Lynch, who spoke to Lawyers Weekly about the future of soon-to-be lawyers.

How one law student survived moving across the globe, the global financial crisis, three kids and now the global coronavirus pandemic to graduate with a juris doctorate.