Responding to increasing crackdowns on anti-money laundering and counter terrorism breaches, Melbourne consulting firm KordaMentha has merged with Australian advisory firm Murray Waldren Consulting to form a new financial crimes service. The partnership comes off the back of damning reports by gaming regulators in NSW and Victoria into major casinos Star Entertainment and Crown Resorts.…
The Albanese government has thrown its support behind a proposal to establish a federal judicial commission that would address questionable conduct by judges.
Seizing on the opportunity afforded by a dynamic and growing area of the law, and wanting to pursue more public interest cases, three young stars of Slater & Gordon have left the firm they cut their teeth on to start their own class action firm.
A Queensland lawyer who sold unlawful payday loans through a sham diamond trade has lost a battle to renew his practicing certificate, with an appeals court tossing as baseless his claim that he was the victim of autism discrimination.
White & Case has expanded its competition practice in Australia with the recruitment of a former Allen & Overy lawyer to the firm’s Sydney office.
IP firm Pizzeys Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys has dropped a lawsuit accusing two of its former lawyers who left to form a competing boutique of violating non-compete clauses in their employment contracts.
Despite scoring a win Thursday in his appeals court battle with ASIC, Mayfair 101’s James Mawhinney was criticized for his “spurious” claims against solicitors and counsel acting for him.
Senior lawyers for Star Entertainment have been called out by the NSW gambling regulator for gumming up investigations with unfounded claims of legal professional privilege and misleading the National Australia Bank about transactions that used China Union Pay debit cards.
A law firm whose principal has been barred from practicing has been restrained from obstructing a Thomson Geer partner appointed to manage it.
The protective scope of whistleblower laws will be tested in a $13 million suit brought by a former Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills partner allegedly sacked for complaining about the tax avoidance strategy of construction giant Lendlease, the advisory firm’s biggest client.