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K&L Gates snags energy partner from Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie 2025-05-06 11:41 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

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.

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Netflix urged to continue talks in pregnancy discrimination suit after failed mediation
Employment 2025-04-28 1:03 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

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.

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Medibank can’t shield Deloitte reports from data breach class action
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-04-04 11:37 pm By Sam Matthews

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.

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Thomson Geer picks up Hogan Lovells life sciences team
Business of Law 2025-04-04 11:57 am By Julia Kanapathippillai

A life sciences and regulatory expert and her team have joined Thomson Geer following the shuttering of Hogan Lovells’ Australian practice.

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Who’s the ‘Mac’? Macquarie asks Federal Court to decide
Intellectual Property 2025-03-20 3:16 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

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.   

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Wilkinson’s failure to make settlement offer to Ten dooms referee costs bid
Media 2025-03-19 11:53 pm By Andy Sidler

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.

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Contingency fees are relevant to class action transfer bids, High Court rules
Class Actions 2025-03-12 10:14 am By Christine Caulfield

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.

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High Court to rule on significance, and reach, of Victoria’s contingency fees
Class Actions 2025-03-11 11:00 pm By Christine Caulfield

Are group costs orders a factor in deciding a bid to transfer a class action? Can the orders survive the move to an inhospitable state? These questions are to be decided by the High Court Wednesday, in a ruling that will clarify the relevance and reach of Victoria’s contingency fee regime.

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Warner Bros can’t kill Casella Wines’ Beetlejuice trade mark
Intellectual Property 2025-03-12 4:21 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Hollywood movie giant Warner Bros has lost its opposition to an Australian winemaker’s proposed ‘Beetlejuice’ trade mark.

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Colloquial use not enough to save Macquarie’s ‘Macbank’ trade mark
Intellectual Property 2025-03-05 11:12 pm By Andy Sidler

A delegate has ordered the removal of Macquarie’s ‘Macbank’ trade mark, finding no evidence of use in the course of trade despite the moniker being widely used to refer to the bank colloquially.

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