Law Firms

A judge has approved a $3.5 million settlement in a class action brought by former clients of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick.

A former Cushman & Wakefield managing director has sued the commercial real estate broker, alleging he was unfairly terminated to prevent him from keeping a $1.5 million sign-on bonus.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised government-owned green bank the Clean Energy Finance Corporation on its $160 million co-investment in sustainable construction projects.

A court bid to bar reburial of the remains of 108 Indigenous people, including the oldest known human remains found in Australia, has been dismissed.

Domain has announced it will recommend shareholders vote to approve a takeover by US real estate company CoStar that values the real estate listing site at $2.8 billion.

On the first day of trial in the Tax Office's case against a former EY partner accused of marketing a tax loss access scheme and pocketing $700,000 in the process, the court heard former clients were assured the scheme was "risky but not illegal". 

A Dexus property fund has argued that a judge went the “wrong way” in deciding that it was forced to sell its 50 per cent stake in Sydney’s largest suburban shopping centre to Macquarie Retail. 

A Federal Court judge might be called as a witness in accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith's bid for a retrial in his failed defamation case against Nine.

A judge has thrown out Clive Palmer's lawsuits against former Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton after finding the claims had no reasonable prospects of success.

Lendlease has lost its bid to allow a key witness to give evidence by audio-visual link in its fight with a company owned by the Macarthur-Onslow family over a Campbelltown development.