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Last Wednesday night the Victorian Women Lawyers and the Women Barristers Association held their annual meet-and-greet networking event in Melbourne.T...

NATIONAL LAW firm Clayton Utz has set up a secondment relationship with a French law firm, and sent their first young lawyer from their Melbourne offi...

QUEENSLAND FIRM Carter Newell Lawyers has broadened its range of client services with the introduction of free podcasts to complement its existing ran...

WITH THE Toll Patrick takeover and the AGL Alinta merger dominating headlines, 2006 is already shaping up to be an eventful year for mergers and acqui...

FREEHILLS LAWYERS is expected to be the clear winner in the soon to be announced Thomson Financial mergers and acquisitions league tables, marked in ...

Editor,The legal profession should continue to be dismayed at Australia’s inaction over the plight of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.For more t...

A HOT legal recruitment market in Australia is leading recruiters not only to lure New Zealand lawyers across the Tasman, but to intercept them on the...

A POLITICAL stoush continued last week over the Australian Capital Territory’s Civil Unions Act 2006 and the federal Attorney General’s announceme...

DEFENCE LAWYERS involved in a terrorism trial in Victoria have defended their refusal to undergo security checks, arguing these demands on lawyers are...

THE NUMBER OF international law firms setting up camp in the Middle East is growing at an exponential rate. But an Australian strategic management con...

IN A sign of things to come, annual leave loading, penalty rates and shift allowances have been stripped from a majority of workplace agreements since...

JOB SEARCHERS now have access to a dedicated legal jobs board via a new service launched this week on the Lawyers Weekly website. Legal secretaries, s...

NEW ZEALAND’S Supreme Court judges appear to have too little to do and are frustrated at their light workload. Almost two years after the Court’s ...

TIME-SHEET PADDING is not the real problem facing firms, legal practice management consultant Ashley Balls of PMF Management Services says, but rather...

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS are well clued when it comes to selecting expert witnesses, but in some cases may be using gender biases to heighten the persuasiv...

CAREER MENTORING has found its way onto the agenda of the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association (ACLA), with the organisation’s Victorian branch ...

OVERSEAS DEMAND for Australian lawyers will place inflationary pressures on local salaries, according to recently released legal salary reports. This ...