Allens has added a Baker McKenzie partner to its restructuring practice in Sydney.
A judge hearing the ACCC’s misuse of market power case against Mastercard has said he’s “loathe” to order any further discovery, as the credit card company argues a fight over waiver of legal professional privilege could involve “potentially enormous” further discovery.
A class action against CMC Markets has won access to data thought to reveal that approximately 2,500 customers who failed screening tests for risky financial products were nevertheless permitted to trade.
In the latest expansion of its energy, infrastructure and resources team, K&L Gates has lured the former co-head of Baker McKenzie’s Australia energy group to join the firm.
A judge has urged Netflix and a manager who alleges she was booted from her role while on parental leave to continue talks to resolve their dispute following a failed mediation.
Medibank has been ordered to give a class action copies of reports by Deloitte into a massive data breach in October 2022, in a judgment made public on Friday and already facing appeal by the health insurer.
A life sciences and regulatory expert and her team have joined Thomson Geer following the shuttering of Hogan Lovells’ Australian practice.
Macquarie’s fight with a NSW credit union — which saw the bank’s ‘Macbank’ trade mark cancelled because, a delegate found, it had only been used colloquially — has landed in the Federal Court.
After a spat over legal expenses in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case, and a final agreement to accept $1.15 million from Ten to cover the costs, presenter Lisa Wilkinson has lost her bid for more costs.
A group costs order giving class action solicitors a percentage cut of the proceeds of a case is a factor in weighing whether proceedings should be transferred from Victoria to a state in which such an order could not operate, the High Court has ruled.