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 ...

After spending eight years at Clyde & Co as a partner, Alena Titterton has commenced as a partner in Sydney at JWS. This content is available exclusively to Lawyers Weekly premium members. She has ...

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 ...

The first offer, made after judgment was delivered in late 2011, requested Odlum pay her former partner $30,000. Odlum was advised about “potential costs risks” associated with accepting the offer and ...

A proposed law in Queensland, which has sparked heated debate, would grant residents the right to use lethal force to protect their homes. However, this measure has drawn strong criticism from lawyers ...

Mike McKell (pictured) has joined Dye & Durham, bringing what the provider called “extensive experience and [a] proven track record” in the legal technology sector. This content is available ...

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 ...

One customer said that after he saw a 58 per cent jump from 2023–2024, he went online, filled in all his details except for his name, and found the same policy being offered for allegedly up to $4,000 ...

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 ...

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.

The regulator attempted to introduce fresh claims in an amended originating process in October 2023, but this was knocked back. Counsel for Mawhinney, Michael Pearce SC, said the report and the ...

Around November 2020, the owner of an Adelaide roofing company met with his lawyer, John Mark Fitzpatrick, and was told “not to worry” about a contractual claim out of alleged defective work because ...