News

May 2010

The private client team that spun out of Allen & Overy last year has dazzled the legal market by posting seven figure profits in its first year of
Lucky students on the LPC at Cardiff University have the chance to win a week photocopying and binding at the offices of Hugh James Solicitors.
SJ Berwin's dreams of a San Francisco wedding were shattered this week
A former Eversheds associate has been awarded £123,300 after a tribuna
Slaughter and May has announced that it will be increasing the salary ba
A high profile criminal barrister is suing the State of Victoria and the Police Commissioner, claiming her life fell apart after she helped to investi
A research study has found that Australia is the third most popular destination for international lawyers globally.
Mallesons has come top of both the Thomson Reuters and Bloomber
Michael Conn, name partner at personal injury firm Teakle Ormsby Conn (and deputy chairman of the Sydney Roosters) has had his practising certificate

April 2010

RollOnFriday has launched a new blog section open to all registered users.
More firms have announced their partner promotions.
Deidre Dare is back for her day in court and demanding £3.5million from Allen & Overy, claiming her boss's sexual obsession led to her dismissal.<
An arts and film festival, launched by a junior Clayton Utz lawyer to support human rights, is taking place in Melbourne.
It's been a bad week for the reputation of the Australian legal profession, with a Sydney lawyer jailed for perjury and a high profile Melbourne lawye
Hundreds of robed barristers picketed the Victorian County Court this week, in protest at the levels of legal aid funding.
Clayton Utz has fortified its depleted banking and finance team
The Open University Law Society is in crisis after its chairman apparently went on a spamming spree on Facebook.