Piper Alderman has urged a judge to excuse its âobviously accidentalâ breach of legal profession costs regulations in its Discovery Metals investor class action against KPMG, warning that group members could suffer detriment if its $3.5 million legal bill was not approved quickly.
A former senior lawyer at Slater & Gordon has filed a lawsuit against his old employer, claiming he was fired after complaining about allegedly unethical practices within the firm.
A self-represented former client of personal injury firm Arnold Thomas & Becker has successfully blocked an application for summary judgment in a dispute that alleges the firm advised him to accept settlement of his workplace sexual assault case so they could receive their costs.
A judge has dismissed HWL Ebsworthâs claims of a âfishing expeditionâ and granted discovery of a slew of internal documents relevant to allegations a partner at the law firm encouraged a companyâs directors to unlawfully divert insurance proceeds to pay almost $150,000 in legal bills.
NewLaw pioneer and founder of Bespoke Law, Jeremy Szwider, has been found guilty of professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct after taking on a case he was “uniquely unprepared” to handle.
An insolvent mobile ticketing company wants a slew of documents from HWL Ebsworth related to its allegations that an HWL partner aided its former directors in diverting the proceeds of a life insurance policy to pay money owed to the firm.
The Full Court has denied a bid by Deep Investments to vary orders dismissing its case against a solicitor and six others over $10 million in alleged share trading losses, saying this would amount to allowing the investment adviser to bring a different claim.
A former McInnes Wilson lawyer has been struck off the roll of practitioners after an administrative tribunal found he engaged in “protracted and egregious acts of malfeasance” by funneling over $681,000 to his wife and her business, including through forged invoices.
A leading class action lawyer has defeated an attempt by the Law Society of NSW to revive professional misconduct proceedings against him.
A judge in the high-stakes trial over the $420 million sale of Viterra’s Joe White malt business to Cargill has denied Cargill’s request to have settlement talks admitted as evidence, shooting down the agricultural giant’s argument that the talks were needed to challenge Glencore in-house counsel’s assertion that he is of good character and will not breach a confidentiality agreement.