Financial services giant AMP has responded to the claims lodged by former general counsel Larissa Baker Cook, denying she was the one who exposed the “fees for no service” saga or that it had authorised her to bring legally privileged documents into a mediation.
Levitt Robinson Solicitors has filed a class against the Northern Territory and Top End Health Service in respect of an alleged assault and subsequent medical treatment as well as broader institutional racist discrimination against the Indigenous population.
The Law Council of Australia has raised serious concerns over mandatory minimum sentencing, saying it could force judges to “rubber-stamp” lengthy prison terms.
An international law firm has announced a plan to significantly reduce its global carbon emissions over the next decade, as part of its wider sustainability strategy and support of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
National firm Mills Oakley has opened a new digital law practice group in its Sydney office and has made a lateral partner hire to lead it.
A tax strategist has warned a recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) may have profound implications on how property divorce settlements occur.
New industrial regulations will see law firms record the hours undertaken by their most junior legal professionals. But, given that lawyers with a few years of experience are most dissatisfied with their employers, wouldn’t it make sense to monitor the work this demographic is burdened with, too?
An inspector and Victoria Police informant told a commission that not only was it wrong to use a lawyer as a police agent, but that barrister-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo was at fault for the quashed conviction of gangland murderer Faruk Orman.
Cooper Grace Ward has become the latest law firm to sign an agreement with Reconciliation Australia to implement a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).
Gold Coast-based residential property developer Villa World has been advised on the acquisition of 100 per cent of its shares for over $400 million.
