Investment manager InfraRed Capital Partners has involved itself in a new development by Western Australia’s Curtin University.
Greenpeace Australia general counsel Katrina Bullock says that clients and the broader community must understand that individuals and institutions can be both commercially minded and environmentally sustainable.
Former Wallabies player Israel Folau has engaged national firm Macpherson Kelley and industrial relations barrister Stuart Wood AM QC to represent him in his employment dispute against Rugby Australia and the NSW Waratahs.
A NSW-based practitioner has been found guilty of professional misconduct and reprimanded for signing his former employer’s name on an application for removal of conditions on his practising certificate.
The raid on the residence of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst yesterday morning by the Australian Federal Police is “very concerning” and “undermines the accountability” of government, which amounts to a “new level of attack on the media”.
William Roberts Lawyers has said it will bring a class action against Suncorp Super, and will work with a litigation funder to do so.
There is a future possibility of claims and class actions being brought in Australian courts regarding use of Roundup weed killer, according to several BigLaw partners.
A magistrate is set to become South Australia’s next state coroner, after the August resignation of the current coroner.
According to one senior lawyer, there are issues faced by those in-house that those in traditional law firm environments won’t have to deal with, giving rise to a need for such practitioners to join a union for lawyers.
The biggest risk facing local businesses in 2019 is not global economic factors or technology but a fear of Australian regulators, according to the Governance Institute of Australia.
