David Clarke (pictured) has joined Swaab, bringing with him his expertise in “all aspects” of capital markets. This content is available exclusively to Lawyers Weekly premium members. If you check ...

When I started my legal career, I believed that building a practice meant endless networking events, awkward small talk, and forcing myself into rooms where I didn’t want to be. The big rainmaker ...

Last week, Bayside Solicitors released an open letter addressed to the Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) chair Bill Jaboor and members of the compliance audit team, expressing serious concerns about VLA’s new ...

If you check this box before you log in, you won’t have to log back into the website next time you return, even if you close your browser and come back later. The legal profession prides itself on ...

Between 2016 and 2022, officers from NSW Police attended music festivals to allegedly use their “extraordinary” strip-searching powers to conduct examinations “en masse as a matter of routine”, the ...

DLA Piper has appointed technology and real estate lawyer Mark Bennett as a partner in Sydney. This content is available exclusively to Lawyers Weekly premium members. If you check this box before you ...

A former client of Chandlers International Lawyers was ordered to pay costs of an unsuccessful appeal on an ordinary basis, despite submissions by the firm that it was justified to receive costs on an ...

In a recording played to the Federal Court on Friday, 2 May, The Age investigative reporter Nick McKenzie was heard telling Ben Roberts-Smith’s former lover that he “breached my f--king ethics” and ...

Very few, if any, practising lawyers with less than five years of post-qualification experience (PQE) will have experienced what working life was like for lawyers pre-2020 – that is, a time in which ...

When I was first diagnosed with severe clinical anxiety and depression, back at the start of 2012, I perceived mental health issues as something that only happened to other people. This content is ...

In this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with University of Adelaide general counsel and executive director of legal services Shanti Berggren about why she is so ...

According to Axiom’s fourth annual general counsel survey report, Investing for Uncertainty: How GCs Are Building Resilient Legal Departments in 2025, the three top priorities for their legal ...