Former senior barrister Norman O’Bryan has pleaded not guilty to two criminal charges in connection with his role as counsel for the Banksia Securities class action.
Three Corrs Chambers Westgarth litigation partners are planning to make the jump to US firm Jones Day.
New York-headquartered King & Spalding has launched an Australian practice, opening a Sydney office as a gateway to the firm’s global platform for Australian multinationals and clients with business in the region.
Ashurst has lured a senior tax partner from MinterEllison, a day after Corrs Chambers announced it has poached the global co-head of Ashurst’s tax practice.
Corrs Chambers Westgarth has added another impressive lateral to its growing tax practice, luring Ashurst’s global co-head of tax.
Lander & Rogers has recruited a contracting specialist from Clayton Utz for the law firm’s corporate practice in Canberra.
After departing the ACCC 25 years ago for private practice, the national head of King & Wood Mallesons’ competition law group has won a five-year appointment as commissioner.
Piper Alderman has appointed a new partner to its litigation team in Sydney with specialist expertise in litigation funding.
Thompson Geer has nabbed a partner and a special counsel from Baker McKenzie to grow its Melbourne-based banking and finance team.
Twenty-three barristers in NSW have joined the silk ranks, including a leading defamation lawyer who was on the Fairfax legal team that defeated accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation suit.