Working with the NSW Rural Fire Service has provided Karina Veling with more than just personal wisdom – it has given her greater insight into her duties as a lawyer and the obligations upon the broader legal profession to support the community.
Stewart Levitt discovered a passion for writing, and then poetry, at a young age. Now, as a firm principal, it helps him ensure access to justice for those in need.
Gold producer Northern Star Resources has been advised in relation to its acquisition of a 50 per cent interest in KCGM Super Pit.
A trainee lawyer at global firm DWF LLP has been barred from practice by the UK Solicitors Regulation Authority over two years after her dismissal from the firm for “gross misconduct”.
Australian human rights lawyers have graded the country low in fulfilling its obligations to international guiding principles on business and human rights.
New figures indicate where each country’s mergers and acquisitions market fits into the global shares, with Australia inching closer to the top.
A Queensland solicitor has been publicly reprimanded and prohibited from applying to practice for a period of five years following events in which he both dealt with a lawyer’s client “disgracefully” and took advantage of the ageing and unwell man.
Lawyers must understand the law “not just as an abstract set of rules, but as a living thing”. Doing this requires a better understanding of our nation’s atrocities and injustices, argues one managing partner.
This year will be a “breakout” year for mergers and acquisitions in Australia, according to two partners from Herbert Smith Freehills, who made several other predictions for the coming 12 months.
The lawyers for disgraced Cardinal George Pell have lodged new court documents that allege previous findings failed to eliminate doubt about his opportunity to offend.
