By Thomas Connelly Unless it’s a major emergency 🚨 Mayer Brown is urging partners not to disturb associates while on holiday — unless it’s a major emergency, of course. The guidance comes courtesy of the firm’s UK managing partner Dominic Griffiths, who…
By Rona Ankrah Camille Vasquez joins US firm Brown Rudnick’s partnership US law firm Brown Rudnick has promoted Camille Vasquez to partner less than a week after she helped secure Johnny Depp’s $15 million (£12 million) jury verdict against ex-wife Amber…
By CJ McKinney Doughty Street’s Althea Sonia Brown ‘improperly undermined, insulted and/or annoyed’ opposing counsel during hearing, disciplinary tribunal finds An employment law barrister at leading set Doughty Street Chambers has been fined for misconduct after mocking her more junior opponent during a…
By Errol Parker “I’m so going to get you to defend me if I get done for DUI or something, how funny would that be?” That’s the fourth time Alice Munro has been told that since she posed with her…
By Tammy Mills and Adam Cooper Cleaver Greene, the fictional cocaine-snorting, alcohol-swilling, lovable larrikin lawyer from TV’s Rake is hardly a conventional poster boy for Victoria’s courts. Nevertheless, Richard Roxburgh – who played Greene, the walking scandal of a criminal defence barrister,…
By Anna Patty A group of Uber drivers from Sydney and Melbourne have launched legal action in the Federal Court to determine whether they and thousands of other gig economy drivers are entitled to minimum rates of pay and other…
By Aishah Hussain Law Society cautions ‘practical barriers’ around qualifications Junior lawyers in the UK may soon be able to practise in Australia without having to requalify following the news this week of a post-Brexit trade agreement with Australia. The development…
By Paul Sakkal and Michael Fowler Victorians who committed minor criminal offences will no longer face barriers getting a job or renting a home under new laws passed by the Andrews government on Thursday. In passing the Spent Convictions Bill,…
By Freya Noble • Senior Producer Watch the video here... A high-profile Sydney lawyer and his controversial Lamborghini number plates have ended up in court again.Peter Lavac claims the plates on his $500,000 bright yellow Lamborghini are meant to be…
By Naomi Neilson Proceedings have been launched in the Victorian Supreme Court to remove gangland criminal barrister Nicola Gobbo from the roll of practitioners. Just months before an explosive report is due that details the Lawyer X human source saga,…