A Queensland-based practitioner has been removed from the roll for multiple findings of professional misconduct, including the taking of in excess of $1 million from a client’s estate.
An independent law firm has announced 83 senior appointments, and now considers itself the largest Australian independent firm by fee earner as a result.
A number of Australian lawyers have banded together to voice concern over the recent AFP raids on journalism and the media in an open letter to the Attorney-General.
Post-EOFY, law firms are looking at who has delivered and who hasn’t, creating a reflective environment whereby financial performance by those at the top can come into question, says one legal consultant.
Any person charged with a leadership role in Australia’s legal profession must be “restless and concerned” with ensuring that rates of sexual harassment decline, and then help change the culture, argues the CEO of the Law Society of New South Wales.
A Victorian wheel manufacturing company is preparing for its initial public offering with a convertible notes issuance.
The Law Institute of Victoria has warned state health practitioners in aged care facilities against administering prescription pharmaceuticals without consent.
Global firm Baker McKenzie has advised Japan-based mobile data solutions and game content company SUNCORPORATION on its Israeli subsidiary’s issuance of $US110 million preferred shares to an Israel-based venture capital.
Legal practitioners making the move from in-house to law firms will be able to offer a broader skill set, improving their client service delivery, according to two senior lawyers.
New research has uncovered the various fee structures offered and implemented by in-house legal teams when it comes to working with law firms, and the extent to which those structures are utilised.
