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King & Wood Mallesons has appointed a former Corrs Chambers Westgarth partner to join its intellectual property practice in Melbourne.
Gilbert + Tobin co-founder Danny Gilbert will step down from his role as managing partner of the law firm, saying it was time to open up the leadership to the next generation.
A Melbourne law firm has lost its bid to delay payment of a $184,000 judgment to a former junior lawyer who earned hundreds of thousands of dollars per year under a lucrative pay structure.
The former head of money markets at the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group has sued his former employer claiming he was sacked for making complaints about sexual harassment by senior managers at the bank and false reporting to the prudential regulator.
A judge has questioned whether the lead applicant in a class action over sleep apnea machines with alleged safety defects was “appropriately resourced” to run the case against health tech giant Philips.
Global law firm Ashurst has snagged a Thomson Geer partner to launch a superannuation practice offering end-to-end legal and consulting solutions for financial services clients in the $3.3 trillion sector.
Property developer JD Group will have to pay damages to a Melbourne couple after a judge found the company’s artistic renderings of a $9.58 million South Yarra apartment were “deliberately misleading”.
The owner of a Whitsundays resort has been ordered to hand over $430,738 to an employee whose roommate in staff accommodation allegedly urinated on him after a night of drinking.
A judge has censured Domino’s Pizza and the lead applicant in an underpayments class action, saying their lack of cooperation made his “blood boil”.
Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said he watched “in horror” as a bill mandating that funded class actions be registered as managed investment schemes passed through Parliament in 2020 without consultation.