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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.

An associate professor with one of Australia’s top law schools said that there are a myriad of opportunities and advantages that come with a fully virtual legal education.

The odds of securing a highly sought-after position in the legal profession are much stronger with a full resume, so how should law students manage a CV in the time of COVID-19?

The Honourable Kevin Ball AM QC has been appointed as Monash Law’s new director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, after a highly effective career as an advocate.