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Gilbert + Tobin has lured K&L Gates' global co-head of construction to join its energy and infrastructure practice in Melbourne.
Dentons has picked up a partner from Holding Redlich to bolster its construction practice ahead of the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane.
A court has rejected an appeal by a lawyer who acted for both sides in an employment dispute between a company and its former managing director and advised the director to "take and park" over $370,000 from the company account as leverage.
Clayton Utz has picked up a new partner specialising in digital transformation from Ashurst to join the firm’s public sector practice in Canberra.
Norton Rose Fulbright has lost the co-head of its energy, infrastructure and resources team in Australia to King & Wood Mallesons, just months after the group's other leader jumped ship to another Big Six firm.
A judge's recent ruling throwing out an expert report in a trade secrets case because the law firm briefing the expert had failed to disclose its involvement in preparing the evidence is a stark reminder to solicitors their paramount duty is to the court, not to their client.
Litigation funder Embedded Claims has filed court proceedings against one of its shareholders after its former bankrupt director “ineffectively” transferred off half of his shares.
An appeals court has ruled that a judge was not justified in slapping two lawyers with personal costs, finding she should not have considered alleged poor conduct such as one of the lawyers eating a muffin while appearing during a remote hearing.
Arnold Bloch Leibler has picked up a new partner from King & Wood Mallesons to bolster its property and development practice.
The conduct of Corrs Chambers Westgarth in the preparation of an ostensibly independent expert report in a trade secrets case "must not be repeated", a judge has said, throwing out the expert's evidence as potentially tainted by the law firm's involvement.