In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Electrical Trades Union of Australia’s national legal counsel, Alana Heffernan.
The principal of a boutique firm in northern NSW has been ordered to pay $170,000 in damages to a former employee over “relentless” sexual harassment, in what the Federal Circuit Court described as “a very grave example” of such harassment.
Lawyers Weekly, in partnership with Taylor Root, is proud the announce the recipients of this year’s Partner of the Year Awards.
Allens has successfully assisted PZ Cussons in defending a cartel case brought by the ACCC.
National firm Lander & Rogers and the Legacy Caseload Working Group, formed by the Law Institute of Victoria, have collaborated on a new platform to provide solicitors with the free training and resources that they need to assist asylum seekers with pro bono advice.
ASX-listed Infigen Energy is acquiring a Western Sydney open cycle gas turbine facility.
A 35-year-old man has today been charged with fraud and falsification of records as part of the ongoing Operation Stockade, which is looking into the activities of Brisbane-based firm Lawler Magill.
It is hard for Australian courts to set down blanket rules for the resolution of religious disputes between parents, or matters where religion comes into conflict with a child’s welfare, as each individual case has to be taken on its merits, argues a senior associate.
A national plaintiff firm has filed the first Federal Court class action against AMP on behalf of superannuation fund members that alleges the bank eroded around two million accounts with ‘unreasonable fees’.
Pigeon-holed lawyers have to be braver about going out and doing other things they are capable of thanks to their legal education, according to a lawyer-turned-global head.
