In a historic first, ACT Magistrate Louise Taylor has become the first Indigenous woman to be appointed to an Australian supreme court.
Piper Alderman has strengthened its real estate team, appointing a former Holding Redlich partner to its Brisbane office.
Norton Rose Fulbright has snagged a class action lawyer with decades of US legal experience and elevated an arbitration expert who worked at a New York white shoe law firm to be partners in its Sydney and Perth offices.
Jones Day has recruited White & Case lawyer Kathryn Sutherland-Smith for the firm’s business restructuring & reorganization practice in Sydney.
Sparke Helmore has recruited a Brisbane-based partner from Holding Redlich with corporate and dispute resolution experience.
Johnson Winter Slattery has nabbed a Jones Day partner to work coast to coast at its Brisbane and Perth offices, bolstering the ranks of its disputes and insolvency team.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has recruited Clayton Utz partner and executive chair Karen O’Flynn to replace the outgoing Carmel Mulhern as the bank’s group general counsel.
The NSW Supreme Court will welcome two prolific commercial silks to the bench, including a barrister known as an advocate for gender equality at the bar.
Ashurst has poached two Gilbert + Tobin partners for its corporate team, as the firm expands its offering in the public and private M&A markets in Australia and abroad.
The Victorian government has elevated an Associate Justice who has overseen class actions and a senior counsel who assisted the Victorian royal commission into Crown Resorts to serve as judges on the Supreme Court of Victoria.