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Wollongong’s longest-serving solicitor honoured
After nearly seven decades of dedicated service in the legal field, Harold Hanson AM has been honoured with a...
08 May 2025
By Grace Robbie
‘Repugnant’: Lawyer forced into sharing bed, ‘bizarre’ movie watch
A rookie solicitor endured marathon shifts, was forced to share a bed with her director, and was made to sit through an...
08 May 2025
By Kace O'Neill
Lawyer makes Stalin-inspired threat to shoot profession’s ‘gatekeepers’
Angered by a disciplinary complaint, a Victorian solicitor threatened to throw his elderly client’s ashes into the...
14 August 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Sydney solicitor hit with $1m penalty for misleading creditor scheme
A Sydney solicitor who promoted a “false and misleading” asset protection scheme was handed a $1 million penalty,...
19 July 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Swaab’s 4 new appointments come at ‘pivotal’ time
Swaab named four new appointments, including two to senior associates, at a time of “pivotal growth” for the...
19 July 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Woman fails to sue lawyers after settlement remorse
A court has thrown out a woman’s attempts to blame her lawyers for a costs order that was triple the sum of a...
09 July 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Solicitors can take cut of class action settlement, Full Court rules
The use of a solicitor’s common fund order in class action matters has been approved by the Full Court, allowing...
05 July 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Environmental Defenders Office should give Santos material on ‘flawed’ expert evidence, court told
Santos demanded the Environmental Defenders Office hand over material that may reveal its role in presenting evidence...
13 June 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Conned clients and key appointments: What’s hot in law this week (1–5 April)
This week in the legal profession, lawyers conned their clients, a major case was reignited with new allegations, and a...
06 April 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Maddocks adds Victorian state government solicitor as new partner
National law firm Maddocks has moved to bolster its commercial practice in Melbourne with the appointment of a senior...
22 August 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
WA solicitor fails to overturn historic legal representation rule
A West Australian solicitor who sought to appear for his own company failed to overturn a decades-old requirement that...
14 August 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Party involved in High Court scandal unsuccessfully complains about lawyers
One of the parties involved in a High Court scandal involving a relationship between a judge and a barrister has...
07 August 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Supreme Court examines NSW solicitor’s alleged ‘incompetence’
A Supreme Court waived legal professional privilege on the communications between a client and her former solicitor due...
04 August 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Barrister clashes with solicitor in Supreme Court dispute
A barrister and a solicitor, both with considerable experience in the profession, have clashed in a Supreme Court...
03 August 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Queensland solicitor’s ‘extraordinary’ error criticised by judge
A Queensland judge criticised a solicitor for making an “extraordinary and regrettable” error in his client’s...
02 August 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Federal Court judge’s cutting attack on colleague and solicitor
The Federal Court has condemned a judge for her “unwillingness” to deliver a judgment for almost three years and...
25 July 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Retired NSW solicitor fails in attempt to recoup income
A retired NSW solicitor unsuccessfully challenged the amount he was paid under a partnership and retirement...
18 July 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Landmark class action, unjust charges involved in ex-solicitor’s proceedings
An ex-solicitor who had his name stripped from the roll has taken on his former solicitor in proceedings involving...
17 July 2023
By Naomi Neilson
SA-based Andersons Solicitors names new equity partner
Andersons Solicitors, a mid-sized firm in South Australia, has elevated one of its partners to equity...
14 July 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
ACT solicitor accuses Supreme Court judge of ‘enforcing’ racism
A solicitor who alleged the ACT Law Society was racist has accused a Supreme Court judge of promoting the “hatred”...
10 July 2023
By Naomi Neilson
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