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victorian legal services board
Costs climb for expelled lawyer, colleagues behind controversial firm
An ousted solicitor and his colleagues had another $20,000 added to the bill for their lengthy vendetta against a legal...
20 February 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Colleagues of restrained lawyer hit with costs orders
Two of the three people involved in the controversial Erudite Legal debacle have been hit with costs orders for conduct...
11 November 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Supreme Court puts end to lawyer, notorious law firm
A Victorian lawyer has claimed a “conspiracy” against himself, his colleagues, and their controversial law firm was...
06 November 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Legal director reprimanded for blunder with CCTV company
A legal director failed to inform 20 clients she had a personal and financial stake in a security company before making...
09 September 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Victorian A-G falls behind in sexual harassment prevention plan
The Victorian Attorney-General’s Department has so far failed to fulfil its part of a plan to prevent sexual...
05 September 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Lawyer’s demand for recusal of tribunal member refused
A Victorian lawyer once accused of posting the number of a junior solicitor in a sex work advertisement alleged the...
09 August 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Victorian solicitor cannot avoid disciplinary hearing for long, judge rules
Armed with a colleague’s “dysfunctional” medical condition and an application that contradicted itself, a banned...
08 August 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Criminal lawyer facing financial probe loses fight to recover practising certificate
A criminal lawyer facing an anti-money laundering investigation failed to convince a court he should continue...
20 June 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Ousted solicitor and fake lawyer team up to fight injunction orders
A legal services board has asked a court to permanently restrain a former solicitor and a man who allegedly masqueraded...
07 June 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Young lawyers are still going through hell
The legal profession must rise from the ashes of its own toxic culture, particularly as it pertains to young lawyers,...
13 February 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Melbourne lawyer’s ‘concerning’ financial activity investigated
A Melbourne criminal lawyer suspected of breaching anti-money laundering laws failed to have his practising certificate...
08 December 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Female lawyers now make up majority of profession in Vic
New data from the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner has shown that female lawyers are still growing in...
04 December 2023
By Lauren Croft
Melbourne sole practitioner reprimanded for failure to honour undertaking
A Melbourne sole practitioner has been condemned by a tribunal for failing to honour an undertaking on behalf of his...
21 September 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Melbourne lawyer avoids criminal charge for contempt of court
A Melbourne director and principal who was found to have committed two counts of contempt of court has avoided facing...
20 September 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Man allegedly masquerading as lawyer fails to shut down Victorian Legal Services Board
A man accused of masquerading as a lawyer to threaten customers of his removalist business has confronted the Victorian...
06 September 2023
By Naomi Neilson
75% of new lawyers in Victoria are women, according to new report
The VLSB+C annual report for 2021–22 has been tabled in Parliament, with 2022 also marking 25 years of independent...
05 January 2023
By Lauren Croft
Landmark whistleblower project to receive share in $4.8m
The Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner (VLSB+C) will provide $4.8 million in funding to improve access to...
05 December 2022
By Lauren Croft
Victorian lawyer takes LSB to tribunal over non-renewal of practising certificate
After the Victorian Legal Services Board declined to renew his practising certificate, a Victorian lawyer took the...
18 November 2022
By Lauren Croft
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