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A solicitor and former client is suing Corrs Chambers Westgarth for “very significant damages”, alleging breaches of multiple duties by the law firm in the course of protracted litigation.
Herbert Smith Freehills has partnered with the University of New South Wales on a practical training course for the firm's Australian graduates that will allow them to start practicing sooner.
Ramsay Health Care Australia has been let off the hook for using emails subpoenaed in a defamation case between two feuding surgeons at one of its hospitals, with a judge accepting that an in-house lawyer was "mortified" by her mistake and was "drowning in work" at the time.
The judge overseeing the scandal-ridden Banksia Securities class action has questioned why a solicitor on record for the case hasn't handed over his ill-gotten fees despite professed regret for his actions and his claims to have reformed.
Big Six firm Herbert Smith Freehills has appointed a PricewaterhouseCoopers veteran as its first director of global workforce strategy and implementation.
The nation's peak body for barristers has lashed out at Prime Minister Scott Morrison for saying he has "never had much truck" with barristers during his political career and "didn't care" if they disagreed with him about the need for a federal anti-corruption commission.
The behaviour of the legal team running the Banksia Securities class action was "reprehensible" and the solicitor who allowed himself to be controlled by lawyer and funder Mark Elliott should be struck from the court's roll of practitioners, a judge heard Tuesday.
Moray & Agnew is facing a lawsuit by a former client who says the firm breached its duties by making an unauthorised $3.3 million transfer while representing him on an investment in a Melbourne storage facility development.
A solicitor fighting to remain on the roll after his involvement in the infamous Banksia Securities class action has told of his regret at having lunch with the funder behind the case eight years ago -- a meeting that set in motion a plot driven by lawyers to deceive seven Supreme Court judges and defraud thousands of investors.
Ernst & Young has bolstered its disputes resolution and forensic accounting practice, acquiring Sydney-based firm Axiom Forensics.