Today
Legal privilege an ‘attraction’ in law firm’s consulting play
HPX Group chief executive Nick Humphrey says rolling consulting services into a legal practice means clients have a better chance of taking advantage of legal privilege.
- Maxim Shanahan
NSW Bar backs compulsory anti-harassment training
State bar associations have swung behind the Australian Bar Association’s proposal to mandate “equality and wellbeing” training.
- Maxim Shanahan
Yesterday
Dentons CEO to fight anti-vax, antisemitism claims
Dentons chief executive Doug Stipanicev has stepped down after he was accused of ignoring bullying allegations and sending a conspiratorial report.
- Maxim Shanahan
Hamilton Locke owner bets on privacy sector growth, inks acquisition
Legal outfit HPX Group has added Anna Johnston’s Salinger Privacy to its ever-expanding group.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Australia’s top five powerbrokers in the law for 2024
It was a momentous year for the High Court, the competition regulator and outspoken judges. Here are the people setting the agenda in legal circles.
- Michael Pelly
This Month
ASIC sets off the crypto fire alarm, Canberra will have to respond
Delegates to this week’s Summit pleaded for clarity about how digital assets are defined under corporate laws.
- James Eyers
KWM changes partner pay to reward the biggest billers
KWM’s top-performing partners will be able to take home a greater share of the firm’s profits, after “moderate” changes to remuneration structure were approved by partners.
- Maxim Shanahan
How a law firm shaped an award-winning poet’s style
Amy Crutchfield last week won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, and credits her time at Mallesons for shaping her poetic style and philosophy.
- Maxim Shanahan
Employment jumps; Traders temper RBA bets; Don’t celebrate Fed
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Law firms urged to track employees’ sleeping patterns
British firms have been urged to track the mental health and wellbeing of employees, as the legal profession confronts its often toxic work culture.
- Adam Mawardi
DPP who lodged two complaints about judges joins the bench
Kerri Judd, KC, has been appointed to the Victorian Supreme Court, less than a year after making complaints against two sitting judges.
- Maxim Shanahan
Major class action against Virgin Australia gathers steam
The central allegation is that the then ASX-listed Virgin Australia used multiple tactics to make its cash position look better than it was – before collapsing into administration. And there’s fresh evidence to back up these claims.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Exclusive
- Privacy
Labor’s privacy reforms the ‘tip of the iceberg’
Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind is happy with a suite of new powers to hit companies with big fines for privacy breaches, but says she can’t pursue the vast majority of complaints.
- Ronald Mizen
Law firm Hogan Lovells to close Australian office
Hogan Lovells will depart Australia a decade after it arrived, while fellow transatlantic firm A&O Shearman will make 10 per cent of its partners redundant.
- Maxim Shanahan
ASX nears record; Housing eats economy; Top lawyer’s $18m home
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Holding Redlich held merger discussions after abandoned expansion effort
Holding Redlich held preliminary merger talks with a rival national firm as it turned away from an unsuccessful expansion strategy.
- Maxim Shanahan
Happy lawyers are better ones: Firm provides unique ways to decompress
Attwood Marshall’s location next to Snapper Rocks means lawyers can catch waves to decompress from the stresses of legal work.
- Maxim Shanahan
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
M&A lessons from big players in this year’s Australian deals
Mergers and acquisitions are all about time, value and regulatory risks in 2024. But dig below the surface and there are interesting lessons from key players in this year’s deals.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Exclusive
- Jobs
The most common jobs MPs had before they were elected
Anthony Albanese was a party official and Peter Dutton was a police officer, but neither are from the most popular vocational backgrounds in federal parliament.
- Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Office
‘We are growing’: HWL Ebsworth to call Martin Place home
Top-tier law firms are on the move across the central business district, upgrading into more appealing workplaces as the war for talent heats up.
- Campbell Kwan and Maxim Shanahan
