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30 Sep 2005

SOME OF THE nation’s leading legal professionals have vigorously defended the right of judges to attend a recent conference in Paris, claiming it is...

30 Sep 2005

Freehills to top M&A tables again

FREEHILLS LAWYERS is expected to be the clear winner in the soon to be announced Thomson Financial mergers and acquisitions league tables, marked in ...

23 Sep 2005

Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room

The opening moments of the new film on the Enron scandal offer an immediate insight into how the world’s worst corporate scandal in history unfolded...

23 Sep 2005

Reforms unlikely to drive dirty cash underground

DESPITE GOVERNMENT officials’ fears, the reform of Australia’s anti-money laundering (AML) laws is unlikely to drive laundered cash and terrorist ...

23 Sep 2005

Multiplex won’t open litigation floodgates

AS LAW FIRM Slater & Gordon investigates claims that construction giant Multiplex may have misled investors, a leading partner at the firm has rej...

23 Sep 2005

The final countdown for Coudert

PARTNERS AND LAWYERS formerly of Coudert Brothers Australia this week took up their new posts at law firms Clayton Utz, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and D...

23 Sep 2005

Conduct complaints made before Kazaa case concluded

Complaints about the conduct of Clayton Utz’s lawyers in the preparation of an expert witness report for the recently concluded case Universal Music...

23 Sep 2005

New York’s moment

FOR AUSTRALIAN lawyers looking for international experience, the New York legal market remains a relatively difficult one to crack, but recent develop...

16 Sep 2005

Lawyers protest against ‘draconian’ laws

LAWYERS IN New South Wales have called on the people of Sydney suburb Marrickville to pressure their local candidates on the issue of tort reform in t...

16 Sep 2005

Terror measures anger profession

THE FEDERAL Government’s proposed anti-terrorism measures, announced last week, are stoking anger and frustration among the legal profession. The La...

16 Sep 2005

Roxon slams old boys’ club appointments

THE CURRENT PROCESS for selecting judges to the High Court has a “clubby” feel, which gives the impression it is about who you know more t...

16 Sep 2005

Biggs is big in web awards

Brisbane-based law firm Biggs & Biggs has beaten 37 other firms to win Findlaw’s Best Australian Law Firm Web Site 2005 award. With a score of 4...

16 Sep 2005

Allens embroiled in secretary stoush

IT WILL go down as the email exchange of the year, and possibly the decade. Allens Arthur Robinson was last week embroiled in an email stoush between ...

16 Sep 2005

Firm rejects undue influence

CLAYTON UTZ has rejected suggestions that its lawyers acted inappropriately in exchanges with one of its expert witnesses who gave evidence in the re...

12 Sep 2005

ACT court clarifies in-house privilege

WHILE A PRACTISING certificate may be useful to in-house legal advisers, the failure to have one will not automatically void legal professional privil...

12 Sep 2005

Lawyers smarting after High Court ruling

THE HIGH COURT handed down a blow to all lawyers last week in upholding a ban on personal injury lawyers advertising their services in New South Wales...

12 Sep 2005

Young ‘stayers’ wanted for country Victoria

WHILE IT MAY seem like a significant achievement to today’s young lawyers to spend five years in the one firm, regional Victoria claims this is not ...

12 Sep 2005

Mallesons partner heads to Bakers

BAKER & MCKENZIE has scored a recruitment coup with the appointment of Mallesons Stephen Jaques partner, Ashley Poke, to lead Baker’s Melbourne cor...

12 Sep 2005

Specialise or fail: Mid tier warned

THE MID TIER would be wise to avoid being everything to everybody in a marketplace where it is easy for clients to find the top players in particular ...

12 Sep 2005

QLS president touts change

IN HIS FIRST address as president of the Queensland Law Society, Rob Davis told members the Society’s council was committed to change.Speaking at th...

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