National law firm Lander & Rogers has failed in its bid to stop a client reviewing invoices totalling $2 million, even though the legal fees were paid by a litigation funder.
Hall & Wilcox has lured an insolvency ace from McCullough Robertson to bolster its insolvency and commercial litigation team in Brisbane.
The shocking revelations about the complaints of sexual harassment of young female associates working for Justice Dyson Heydon in his years on the High Court have prompted many reactions and a collective sharing by women across the profession about their own personal experiences. These stories have been incredibly powerful and are a clear call to arms for significant and lasting change. Chief Justice Susan Kiefel set the tone by committing to the adoption of all recommendations of the investigator, but the reforms should not stop there, says Professor Andrew Lynch, the Head of School and Deputy Dean at UNSW Law.
Law firms are increasingly encouraging men to take paternity leave, with benefits to both the well being of staff, and the bottom line.
The widow of mining billionaire Ken Talbot has been denied a separate trial to answer questions of privilege in her negligence lawsuit against law firms Arnold Bloch Leibler and Boyd Legal for their handling of her late husband’s estate, which she claims resulted in tens of millions of dollars in losses.
A Sydney-based law firm has been ordered to pay $1.4 million in damages for failing to properly advise a client of his rights under a partnership agreement after he suffered several strokes.
Google has been ordered to hand over details of an online reviewer’s identity to gangland lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson so she can pursue a potential defamation and misleading and deceptive conduct case against the reviewer, which she alleges is a rival law firm.
The global pandemic has shown that the traditional law firm operating model can be transformed with speed and agility if needed. Beyond the anticipated shift to more flexible working arrangements, Lawyerly asked law firms leader to share some of the other lessons they have learned from COVID-19 and how they will incorporate these experiences into the management of their firm.
A trade mark infringement lawsuit filed by the former CEO of the Australian Bar Association was not properly brought as a class action on behalf of member barristers, a judge has found.
The reopening of law firm offices in Melbourne and Sydney may still be months away but firms have given Lawyerly a glimpse of what it might look like when staff do return to the office, from split workforces to strictly enforced health and safety rules. One thing is for sure, COVID-19 has changed the way lawyers will work from now on.