Emerging BigLaw firm Keypoint Law, which operates a consultancy model and is celebrating its 10-year anniversary Down Under, has launched in the west with a consulting principal hire, meaning it now ...

While legal work is incredibly fulfilling, it can also, by nature, be stressful, exhausting and feel all-encompassing. Industry-wide, we hear that ultra-competitive professional cultures and excessive ...

The firm has four offices located offices in Brisbane, Dandenong, Melbourne and Sydney. Macpherson Kelley became an incorporated legal practice on 18 February 2008 and since 2015 has operated as a ...

The client of Jonathan Hai Song Lu, principal of SHL and Associates, reportedly told him he would “make an easy $50,000” if he loaned her $300,000 so her company could demonstrate solvency in ...

Since its launch in 2024, Lexis+ AI has been adopted by some of the largest law firms in Australia, such as Clayton Utz, McCabes, Holding Redlich, and hundreds of smaller firms. Now, the introduction ...

A Sydney law firm was heavily criticised by a tribunal for pursuing a futile deportation case, with a member going so far as to say she would not be won over by “lies, speculation or exaggeration”.

Performance improvement plans (PIPs) may be used by businesses, including law firms, that “lack the moral fibre to simply be upfront” and meaningfully address the performance concerns of an employee.

Following seven years as a judge of appeal for criminal and civil matters in the Supreme Court’s trial division, Chief Justice Richard Niall stepped into the top job to replace Chief Justice Anne ...

“There is scant evidence they are effective at achieving this goal. “Instead, no body, no parole laws are disastrous for prisoners who continue to assert their innocence, exacerbating what is commonly ...

ASIC originally initiated proceedings against Mayfair 101 on an ex parte basis in August 2020, resulting in a 20-year ban of Mawhinney’s dealing in financial products, but this was overturned.

Despite her strong objections, West Australian Magistrate Catherine Crawford was shifted out of full-time work in the Children’s Court and “made available” to the Magistrates Court from mid-2022 on ...

The boutique also revealed that “EMT Partners’ non-legal businesses will not form part of the deal”.. The CEO of Cornwalls, Levent Shevki, expressed his enthusiasm about the newly formed partnership, ...