Mid this month, the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA) welcomed the appointments of six new magistrates, five of which are women. They are Julie Kearney, Caroline Jenkins, Samantha ...

The NSW Court of Appeal has referred the whole of the papers relating to a number of extraordinary allegations made by Marie Odtojan and her husband Artem Bryl, who practise together as Odtojan Bryl ...

Examining in full detail how much difference a person’s study of choice makes, the Commonwealth Department of Education used earnings data from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to determine the ...

The Legal Services and Complaints Committee (LSCC) agreed to settle a disciplinary matter with solicitor Richard Parker Camm in the Western Australian State Administrative Tribunal earlier this week.

The State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia (SAT) has reprimanded and fined Perth legal practitioner Paul Andrew Hardie $20,000, finding that his conduct “fell substantially below a ...

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has elevated 52 of its lawyers across its Australian offices to the position of senior associate, effective 1 July. This content is available exclusively to Lawyers ...

Taylor Rose MW is set to enter the Australian legal services market and expand its legal consultancy model Down Under, having entered into a partnership with Australian firm GTC Legal. This content is ...

Senior solicitor Leigh Johnson of Leigh Johnson Lawyers was found to not be a “fit and proper person” and had her practising certificate suspended by the NSW Law Society at the end of last month, ...

The second annual 2019 State of the Industry survey, released last week by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), encompassed responses from over 200 companies of different sizes ...

Mouna Youssef, who was admitted to practice in 2012 and opened her own office as a sole practitioner in 2015, was the subject of a routine trust account inspection from the Law Society of NSW, with ...

Speaking with Lawyers Weekly, Emma Howard, national mental health manager and in-house psychologist at Clayton Utz, along with Emily Woodlands, health, safety and wellbeing manager at the firm, ...

The Supreme Court’s decision set aside the ruling of the QLD Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which dismissed the application by made by the state’s Legal Services Commissioner (LSC) to have Rhonda ...