Piper Alderman has settled a dispute with a former partner who claimed the law firm discriminated against her when she was ousted from the partnership.
Allens’ response to a complaint of sexual harassment in the firm’s Brisbane office five years ago may have breached the federal Work Health and Safety Act, a new report has suggested.
Sexual harassment is alarmingly common throughout the legal profession in South Australia, according to a new report that details an assault by a former judge and harassing texts from a magistrate who told a lawyer while presiding over a case that he imagined her “kneeling between his legs at the bench”.
A Melbourne law firm and its director have been ordered to pay over $184,000 to a former junior lawyer who earned hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, after a court found he was underpaid and fired for filing a barrage of complaints.
Law firm Hicksons Lawyers has reached a last-minute settlement to resolve sex discrimination claims brought by a female former partner who claims she was denied a promotion to equity partner because of her gender.
A review of sexual harassment in Victorian courts sparked by the findings of an investigation into former High Court Justice Dyson Heydon has found a culture that can “normalise or ignore” bad behaviour by judges and others, with more than two dozen court staff reporting they had experienced sexual harassment, many on numerous occasions.
A Sydney barrister who has admitted to sexually harassing a young female solicitor in a NSW Supreme Court conference room is facing disciplinary action for unsatisfactory professional conduct.
Big Six firm Allens allowed a senior lawyer to stay on at the firm for five weeks after a sexual harassment incident in 2012, the third such event at the law firm to be disclosed in the past month.
The owner of a Sydney law firm has been ordered to pay his former practice manager $49,910 in compensation for unfair dismissal, after the Fair Work Commission found his grounds for dismissal, which included alleged physical violence, insubordination and sabotage, were not credible.
Ashurst has become the second Big Six firm to up its bonus game to reward staff for the firm’s strong performance during the coronavirus pandemic, doubling its bonus pool for the year and promising staff a one-time £1,000 special reward.