A team from Clyde & Co has made the jump to Colin Biggers & Paisley, following seasoned insurance partner Patrick Boardman.
Baker McKenzie has lost a corporate banking and finance expert with 20 years of experience to competitor Johnson Winter Slattery.
Holding Redlich has lost a veteran environment partner with extensive experience representing government clients and his team to Maddocks, marking the firm’s second lateral loss this week.
Macpherson Kelley has recruited a property expert from Hall & Wilcox, as well as the former head of commercial litigation at SLF Lawyers and a tax lawyer from PCL Lawyers, in an expansion of its national team.
In a push toward gender parity, more than 30 per cent of the latest silks appointed in NSW are women, a percentage that mirrors the representation of women at the Bar.
Dentons’ Brisbane office has lured a partner and two special counsel from Holding Redlich to bolster its employment and safety team.
MinterEllison has lured a King & Wood Mallesons litigation veteran to bolster its construction practice.
Thomson Geer has lured an employment law partner and his team from KPMG’s legal services division after the consulting firm announced it was shutting down its commercial law practice.
Justice Andrew Coleman has been sworn in as a NSW Supreme Court judge after three years in regional district courts where, he joked, empanelling juries during harvest time could prove challenging.
Dentons and Australian chair Doug Stipanicev have hit back at allegations by a former property partner that they breached workplace laws, saying the partner is barred from bringing his case.