A Melbourne law firm has lost its bid to delay payment of a $184,000 judgment to a former junior lawyer who earned hundreds of thousands of dollars per year under a lucrative pay structure.
King & Wood Mallesons has appointed a former Corrs Chambers Westgarth partner to join its intellectual property practice in Melbourne.
Commenting on the unprecedented nature of the case against her client — the so-called postbox solicitor in the Banksia Securities class action — a senior barrister has told a court of her shock at the conduct of her former colleague at the bar, Norman O’Bryan, who acted as lead counsel in the scandal-ridden litigation.
Global law firm Ashurst has snagged a Thomson Geer partner to launch a superannuation practice offering end-to-end legal and consulting solutions for financial services clients in the $3.3 trillion sector.
Global firm Clifford Chance has lured a Corrs Chambers Westgarth litigation partner to meet the increased demand for projects expertise stemming from pandemic-related construction disputes.
Australia ranks second in the world for climate-related lawsuits, and the threat of climate litigation looms larger than ever for Australian companies across all sectors, a new report has found.
The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission has appointed former MinterEllison managing partner Annette Kimmitt as CEO after an “extensive” recruitment process, a year to the month after she was shown the door at the Big 6 firm for her controversial staff emails about a partner’s work for then Attorney-General Christian Porter.
Lloyd’s has won access to letters between Moray & Agnew and an insurer to test its claims that a $3.7 million settlement the law firm agreed to over the sale of apartments at a $105 million South Yarra complex developed by millionaire Harry Stamoulis was excessive and made to protect the firm’s reputation.
A high profile Tasmanian lawyer has been found guilty of professional misconduct for an “ongoing failure” to progress his client’s case or respond to her questions for two and a half decades.
HWL Ebsworth has told a judge the law firm’s omission of a mutual debt liability clause in a joint venture contract could not have led former client Dairycorp to lose a $130 million opportunity to develop land northwest of Sydney.