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28 Jan 2005

EXORBITANT LEGAL fees are this week again the subject of scrutiny in New South Wales. Legal bodies and other organisations have submitted their views ...

28 Jan 2005

Clayton Utz addresses untapped female talent

WHILE FIRMS across Australia are touting equal opportunities for their female staff as a priority, national law firm Clayton Utz has entrenched the La...

28 Jan 2005

Analysis: Equal briefs for the fairer sex

CLAYTON UTZ’S strategic implementation of the Law Council of Australia’s equal opportunity briefing policy marks a major success for all women in ...

28 Jan 2005

Firms may miss Australian immigration boat: Maddocks

AUSTRALIA’S LABOUR market will increasingly demand more from immigration lawyers, according to Sydney-based law firm Maddocks, which last week estab...

28 Jan 2005

Clayton Utz partner gets arbitration position

CLAYTON UTZ partner Doug Jones AM has been elected as the Australasian representative on the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrato...

28 Jan 2005

Allens, Freehills in table muddle

AS ALLENS Arthur Robinson celebrates its top position in last year’s Dealogic Asia Pacific project finance legal adviser league tables, top tier fir...

21 Jan 2005

Allens to test Asian waters

HAVING TAKEN its place as the top Australian-based firm on the Dealogic annual global project finance league tables since their inception, 2004 being ...

21 Jan 2005

‘Political prisoner’ to address LAWASIA 2005

“MALAYSIA’S MOST famous political prisoner”, according to event organisers, will this year join a list of prominent speakers to address ...

21 Jan 2005

Lawyers call for cheaper asbestos trials

AS ASBESTOS victims await news of the possibility of adequate compensation, legal bodies and other organisations across Australia last week handed ove...

21 Jan 2005

NSW’s new president to defend lawyers’ fees

WITH A mantle to defend lawyers’ fees, the new president of the New South Wales Law Society late last week argued the legal profession has an import...

21 Jan 2005

Strong leader for the young

WHEN VICTORIA Strong won the Young Gun Award at the 2004 Australian Law Awards, she was praised for “single-handedly debunk[ing] the myth that a...

21 Jan 2005

Noyce takes on another challenge

THE CHANCE of being affiliated with an ISO-accredited, Australian Business Excellence Award-winning law firm was key in the decision of western Sydney...

21 Jan 2005

Habib still security ‘interest’: Ruddock

AS THE Law Council of Australia (LCA), the national body representing the legal profession, decries the treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh H...

12 Jan 2005

Merger management includes culture fit: Dibbs

A MERGER that appears to be financially viable may end in disaster if there is cultural disunity, experts say.Law firms have an important role in ensu...

12 Jan 2005

Lawyers Weekly top 5 tips: Keeping women in the law

IF STATISTICS are correct and your firm is being flooded with female bright young things as they graduate, but is finding their numbers dissipate furt...

12 Jan 2005

Energy boost for Gadens

GADENS LAWYERS late last year pulled off a major recruitment coup that marks the start of a plan to further expand the firm’s energy and resources p...

12 Jan 2005

Clerkship success via “radical” methods

A UNIQUE approach to hiring has seen Gadens Lawyers achieve a 100 per cent acceptance rate with the firm’s Sydney summer clerkship program for the t...

12 Jan 2005

Legal inquiry to divulge evidence ‘mess’

FORMING A united front, Australia’s state law reform commissions have launched what is being touted as the most significant legal inquiry ever condu...

12 Jan 2005

Thomson Playford digs for national ground

DECISION MAKERS behind Brett Goodridge’s appointment to the position of chief executive of commercial law firm Thomson Playford hope he will help pl...

12 Jan 2005

Legislation to ease ACT lawyers’ court work

LAWYERS WILL find the job of searching for court rules and consulting common annotations and case notes in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) easi...