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Given favourable conditions for merging or taking over another legal practice, there are a number of factors that firms with expansion plans must take into account.

Pandemic-inspired amendments to the Corporations Act must be made permanent as Australia emerges from coronavirus.

Going to work for a community legal centre is “one of the best decisions” Tanya Diessel has ever made. It’s a vocational experience all lawyers should have, she says.

With the onset of the pandemic, credit will play a key role in the Aussie business climate, as businesses seek to recover from financial damage, according to two BigLaw partners.

Farmers have won the latest round in a long, bitter legal battle over coal producer New Hope Group, after having been granted leave by the High Court to appeal a finding against them.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised joint lead managers on Macquarie Bank’s $641 million capital notes 2 issue.

Allen & Overy has advised the financiers to NBN Co Limited on $6.1 billion bilateral credit facilities.

There is something to be said for scolding irreverent defendants over the formal dressing-down that court decorum demands. For one thing, it’s in a language they understand.

The Victorian Parliament has passed legislation to increase the maximum penalty around manslaughter, child homicide and workplace manslaughter charges.

Adults of authority over teenagers will now face stronger criminal charges if they engage in any sexual activity with an underage person in their care under laws enacted by NSW.