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As the FBI joins the hunt for the hackers behind last week's massive data breach at Optus, a second law firm has launched an investigation into possible claims against the telecommunications giant.
A judge has raised concerns with Maurice Blackburn and Slater & Gordon for their slow progress in a consolidated shareholder class action against Treasury Wine Estates, one year after scolding the firms for their delay in filing evidence.
A test case stemming from the 2019 'sports rorts' scandal will not make it to trial, after a club denied funding from a $100 million grants program discontinued its lawsuit against the Australian government agency responsible for community sports.
The only female partner at global technology research firm Information Services Group has sued her employer for alleged sex discrimination and harassment, saying the company is a “hostile environment” for senior women employees.
Following a three-week trial, Pitcher Partners has agreed to pay $41 million to settle a shareholder class action alleging the firm, along with Ernst & Young, approved an overly rosy year-end financial report related to Slater & Gordon's disastrous $1.2 billion acquisition of UK business Quindell.
A fight has broken out between the litigation funder and the lawyers representing 15,000 seaweed farmers in a class action against oil exploration company PTTEP Australia over a spill at its Montara oil field in the Timor Sea.
A judge overseeing the trial in a shareholder class action against chain logistics company Brambles has questioned the company's use of long-term financial forecasts.
Ambulance Victoria is being sued by a former executive who claims she was not treated the same as her male colleagues and was subject to “disrespectful, undermining” conduct from senior colleagues.
A judge has signed off on a $44.5 million settlement of a shareholder class action against Woolworths, which includes a $4.73 million funding commission, but the amount of fees to be paid to the law firm running the case remains to be decided.
A judge has blessed Ernst & Young’s settlement with shareholders in a class action alleging the firm, along with Pitcher Partners, approved an overly rosy year-end financial report related to Slater & Gordon's disastrous $1.2 billion acquisition of UK business Quindell.