Norton Rose Fulbright have joined forces with Jaramer Legal, a firm formed last year to help fill the commercial law gap for Indigenous commercial lawyers. Formed with Bevan Mailman, a Bidjara man and Brian Bero, a Meriam man, the firm sees Norton Rose provide administrative support and training to Jaramer and regularly seconds lawyers there. […]
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The Top 10 ‘Most Attractive’ Law Firms The survey of the ‘Top 25 Attraction Firms’ in Australia has seen Herbert Smith Freehills’ end a four year run with Minter Ellison taking poll position. The law firm attraftion survey, conducted by Momentum Intelligence and Lawyers Weekly is based on the query to external lawyers: ‘which firm
3 New Partners Joined by 20 Support Staff Powered By LawFuel –Sparke Helmore Lawyers is delighted to announce it will welcome five new Partners to the partnership from ClarkeKann Brisbane. These new Partners will be joined by 20 lawyers and support staff. Sparke Helmore’s National Managing Partner Phillip Salem said, “I am thrilled to welcome such an
Stellar career of global project finance lawyer who joins NY office Powered By LawFuel – Global law firm Ashurst announces the appointment in New York of Betty Cerini, one of the leading figures in the global project finance market. In a landmark hire, Betty joins as co-chair, alongside Andy Fraiser, of Ashurst’s infrastructure team covering
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From the Ukrainian ‘Wild East’ to a middle-aged legal disrupter: The innovation lawyers making a difference Innovation in the law has been highlighted in a Financial Times article identifying 10 key innovations from law firms for the list prepared by both the FT and RSG Consulting. The recent list included a Ukrainian lawyer in the
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The Results Play To New Law Business Models The oft-heard query about clients seeking out lawyers is whether they rely on the firm ‘brand’, or seek out individual lawyers. The NAB inaugural Australian Legal Services Industry Survey, when it comes to reputation as a factor in deciding which legal adviser they want to go to,
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Inaugural NAB Law Firm Survey Carries Some Salutary Messages for Lawyers Powered By LawFuel – Lawyers are critical to SMEs. But that doesn’t mean they get it right every time. In NAB’s inaugural Legal Services Industry Survey, we find out what SME clients really need, want and value – giving lawyers unique insights into how they
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Powered by LawFuel – Slater and Gordon has filed a class action against Westpac subsidiaries on behalf of thousands of superannuation members who were shortchanged by the bank’s super funds. The class action was filed against Westpac’s subsidiaries BT Funds Management Limited and Westpac Life Insurance Services Limited. This is the third class action to
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The idea that the partnership is an anachronism is misguided The strength of the partnership structure for law firms has been questioned, but an article in the Australian Financial Review indicates that law firms should avoid following the corporate model of corporations and instead focus on the producer-manager-leader (PML) model where senior lawyers are “on
Sir Robert Jones* In an entertaining recent Australian libel case the presiding Judge, Justice Flick, wrote the following pompous blah in his judgement. “The evidence establishes his knowledge of prostitution being carried on out of premises he either owned or had a not insignificant interest in and that he was involved in prostitution and participated
