The impending insolvency crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic raises key questions for company directors and lawyers – such as what choices directors should make in the ‘insolvency environment’. A seminar on the insolvency law landscape and its effect upon the legal profession is the subject of a forthcoming webinar coming in the […]
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The startling fall from grace of blue-blooded Melbourne SC Norman O’Bryan, a barrister of such repute that he held the Order of Australia, has rocked both the local Melbourne bar and reverberated about the Australian profession. O’Bryan could barely have had a more distinguished legal pedigree. Both his grandfather and father were both Supreme Court
The global pandemic has affected Australian law firms less than many others globally, although it is seeing partners everywhere working harder. The Thomson-Reuters State of the Legal Market: 2020 report showed higher demand from clients and revenue for the Australian firms with legal services rising by over 6 per cent for the final quarter of 2019-20 compared
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Thomson Geer has raided yet another Big Law global firm by taking three partners and eight others from DLA Piper, hard on the heels of the Adelaide-based law firm’s Brisbane raid on Dentons. Thomson Geer raided 20 fee earners from Dentons in July. The raid on DLA Piper focused on M&A lawyers. The DLA Piper
Law firm HWL Ebsworth has received barely veiled criticism from Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews for the way the firm approached the COVID crisis and the outbreaks at the firm’s office. The firm has two floors in Collins Street, Melbourne and although Andrews did not name the firm he referred to one that had “become a
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An Australian case involving one of the Big Four accounting firms has raised the issue of retirement age for lawyers as well as accountants. Given that most large law firms have a mandatory retirement age provision, the case involving Deloittes will have firms thinking. According to many, the rules relating to professional service partnerships with
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Maurice Blackburn Lawyers has rolled out an artificial intelligence-infused solution that cuts the time taken to assess a client’s entitlement to a superannuation disability insurance claim from months down to the span of the client’s initial phone call. Developed by Microsoft partner, Arinco, the system saves time for the client while also freeing up the
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Australia’s class action regime, including the role of litigation funding, has been an effective and reliable means of delivering access to justice, but contingency fees create undesirable ethical risks, the Law Council of Australia has told a parliamentary inquiry today. The Law Council of Australia President, Pauline Wright, told the Inquiry into Litigation Funding and the
Shine Lawyers has filed a class action against the owner and operator of the Ruby Princess. It is alleged that the outbreak of Coronavirus on the Ruby Princess, which docked in Sydney on Thursday 19 March 2020, resulted from a failure to take appropriate measures to ensure that passengers were safe and protected from contracting
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A Sydney law firm that has encouraged individuals required to wear masks to avoid infection in the pandemic has been trolled for its “free advice” to ignore the requirement and face off with the Victorian government in court. ‘Free legal advice to all Victorians. Don’t wear a mask. Get a $200 fine then elect to
