A high profile Tasmanian lawyer has been found guilty of professional misconduct for an “ongoing failure” to progress his client’s case or respond to her questions for two and a half decades.
HWL Ebsworth has told a judge the law firm’s omission of a mutual debt liability clause in a joint venture contract could not have led former client Dairycorp to lose a $130 million opportunity to develop land northwest of Sydney.
The NSW Supreme Court’s new Chief Justice has used his maiden speech to lament how remote hearings and working from home has led to the “insidious depersonalisation” of the legal profession, with half-empty chambers and solicitor’s offices losing their soul and personality.
HWL Ebsworth’s clients suffered a staggering $130 million loss when the law firm’s solicitors failed to notice “obvious red flags” in a joint venture contract for an ambitious Sydney-based land development, a court has heard.
Female barristers continue to make gains in the number of briefs they are receiving but are still earning less than their male counterparts.
Johnson Winter & Slattery has bolstered its growing cyber practice with the appointment of a leading data privacy lawyer from Corrs Chambers Westgarth.
Lawyers behind a scheme to defraud members of a class action over the collapse of Banksia Securities have offered $10.6 million to resolve a case that has put them on the hook for at least double that sum.
Legal bills sent to investment firm Keybridge Capital for work related to litigation from 2019 are governed by legislation that doesn’t require cost disclosures to sophisticated clients and can’t be reviewed, a court has heard.
A new taxation super-group is on the horizon, with leading tax advisory firm Greenwoods set to join the ranks of PwC Australia’s financial advisory business in the midyear, amid a “war for talent” in the sector.
The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption has found Holding Redlich managing partner Ian Robertson’s account of a meeting where he allegedly advised the former NSW Labor general secretary to cover up a $100,000 illegal political donation “inconceivable”, but declined to refer the lawyer for criminal charges or disciplinary action.