National firm Piper Alderman has brought across a banking and financial services partner from Gadens to join its Sydney office.
Professional services firms, such as legal entities, are now operating in a buyer’s market where digital technologies have fostered new customer expectations, according to a new Westpac report.
Legal professional privilege (or client legal privilege, as it is also known) is considered a sacrosanct feature of the relationship between a lawyer and their client. It is also a fundamental tenet of the Australian legal system and its effective administration, which can only be abrogated by legislation drafted in the clearest of terms, write Rhys Jewell and Mark Wilks.
A Queensland-based lawyer, who was employed as an investigator with the state’s Legal Services Commissioner, has been found to have failed to comprehend evidence which defeated a charge against a lawyer under investigation.
Regardless of the profession-wide recognition that innovation is key to surviving long term, only half of Australian law firms have formalised an innovation function.
A Western Sydney law firm has broken its record with this year’s charity run, with more than 600 people present and $200,000 raised.
The new Melbourne managing partner at Baker McKenzie has offered insight on how he intends to maximise on growth opportunities across the Victorian market.
The in-house legal environment can be “a Hunger Games scenario”, with lawyers vying for promotion and better work, meaning that figuring out to manage staff is the biggest leadership challenge facing general counsel.
Federal regulator ASIC must provide further guidance on protections that might be afforded to in-house legal counsel when those lawyers are put in a position where they feel it is necessary to become whistleblowers, according to a member association.
In-house counsel make up 30 per cent of the Australian legal profession, and it is important to showcase the personalities that make up that demographic. Here, we speak with legal counsel Karina Veling.
