New research from the UK casts doubt on the capacity of in-house legal departments to function and succeed five years from now and beyond.
A national plaintiff firm has commenced a class action on Tuesday against Australian financial services company IOOF, on behalf of its shareholders, for alleged corporate misconduct.
Alternative legal services provider LOD is expanding its offering to in-house legal teams, with its dedicated arm to challenge the traditional firm model now across three countries.
A Melbourne-based solicitor has been found guilty of professional misconduct, fined $2,000 and ordered to pay $20,000 in costs.
Thomson Reuters has confirmed it has made a recent investment designed to offer boutique Australian law firms and sole practitioners an all-in-one approach to legal research.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised the Myanmar government on a new insolvency and restructuring framework established by the enactment of the Insolvency Law 2020.
The secret filming of Julian Assange’s confidential conferences with his lawyers in the Ecuadorian embassy is a “deeply concerning development”, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA).
Eight of Australia’s BigLaw firms are some of the most sought-after workplaces for law students. Lawyers Weekly chats to each firm to break down what about the firm makes them attractive to new lawyers emerging into the legal profession.
Before barrister Nicola Gobbo would go on to inform on criminal clients and effectively compromise all legal obligations, she was a star legal ethics student with the intention of working on the relationship between police informants and law enforcement. Here is what not to do to avoid a Lawyer X-style legal scandal.
A team of law and science students has emerged the inaugural winners of a summer innovation program with a method to prevent the emergence of superbugs.
