Australian mining giant BHP is facing the revival of a $7 billion claim over a dam disaster in Brazil, triggering that country’s worst-ever environmental crisis, following a decision from the UK Court of Appeal. The Court decided to reopen the lawsuit brought by 200,000 claimants after a lower court struck out the lawsuit as an […]
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Sparke Helmore Lawyers is pleased to announce Alexandra Wedutenko has joined the firm’s Government team as a Consultant. Alexandra is a leading Government, IT and telecommunications lawyer, known in the market for her skilful management of significant Commonwealth and state government procurement projects. Specialising in select sourcing and business process sourcing in a regulated environment,
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Jones Day partner Shannon Finch has been named to Australasian Lawyer’s first “Most Influential Lawyers” list. Ms. Finch, who is based in Jones Day’s Sydney Office, and is part of the Firm’s M&A Practice, was recognized in the “Changemakers” category for the inaugural list. The lawyers named in this category were chosen for being “leaders, innovators
More senior lawyers have departed MinterEllison as Holding Redlich announce the recruitment of tax partner Chris Kinsella, along with former Minters tax litigator Stephen Jones. This follows a number of departures recently for Corrs, as LawFuel reported last week. The release from Holding Redlich is below – Holding Redlich attracts leading tax controversy partner
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The role of women in law – or at least the need to ensure more women wind up in senior legal roles – has occupied the legal profession for many years in many jurisdictions. But as the number of women in the profession continues to grow (with more women than men in Australia already) more
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Victor Kline, the New Liberals leader and barrister has announced a further legal action against Christian Porter on behalf of the alleged rape victim and “every single woman whom ‘the Honourable’ swinging dicks have humiliated”. Kline and former prosecutor Vania Holt had read the newly publicly available dossier detailing historic rape allegations against the
MinterEllison’s Australian offices continue to shed partners with five key finance partners departing and with special counsel Caitlin Chiu and long-serving partner John Mosley heading to Corrs Chambers Westgarth. The moves follow the mass departures in February when three partners left for Corrs as it continues its expansion. An earlier departure was big name M&A
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MinterEllison has appointed a successor to previous Managing Partner and CEO Annette Kimmitt who left the firm after an email firestorm erupted over the previous CEO’s actions in respect of the Christian Porter row. The scandal involves an email Kimmitt sent to the firm’s 2000-odd employees advising that the firm was acting for Australian Attorney
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Former Australian Attorney-General Christian Porter has been busy of late – terminating his defamation claim against the ABC and now revealing his new relationship with profile Sydney criminal lawyer Karen Espiner. Porter hit the headlines with his defamation claim has revealed he’s found love with a Sydney-based criminal law specialist, after discontinuing his defamation action
Class Action law firm Slater and Gordon is looking at a possible claim against a2 Milk for those investors who had bought shares in the business in the nine months when the company posted downgrades and a major price slump. Based on its investigations to date, Slater and Gordon wrote in an email to investors
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