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Johnson Winter Slattery has appointed a technology and communications specialist, bolstering the ranks of its team in Sydney.
Experts say the chaos of last month’s CrowdStrike outage is likely to spark a flurry of litigation both overseas and at home, including class actions, but lawyers bringing the claims will face significant hurdles.
Jones Day has bolstered its financial markets practice with the addition of a former Baker McKenzie special counsel.
Lander & Rogers has lured away a Gadens veteran to bolster its real estate practice in Brisbane.
Employment Minister Tony Burke says he will support the Fair Work Commission's plan to appoint an independent administrator to the construction division of the CFMEU and flagged an AFP investigation into recent allegations the union has been infiltrated by criminal figures.
Johnson Winter Slattery has boosted its cybersecurity, privacy and technology team by luring a senior technology lawyer from Herbert Smith Freehills.
Mills Oakley has lured a founding partner of Hamilton Locke and an environmental, social and governance lead from KPMG to join its Sydney team.
Although carefully reasoned, last week's landmark judgment by the Full Federal Court finding power to grant contingency fees to class action solicitors has placed the question of statutory authority to award settlement common fund orders on more unsteady ground than before, experts say.
The commissioner of South Australia's ICAC has stepped down for "mostly professional" reasons, saying her criticisms of 2021 reforms that limited the commission's power to crack down on public corruption "have fallen on deaf ears".
The nation's peak legal body has reiterated its concerns about proposed rules that would subject lawyers and accountants to new money laundering obligations, warning the regulations would impose a costly "red tape burden for no good reason" on smaller firms.