Senior solicitor Leigh Johnson of Leigh Johnson Lawyers was found to not be a “fit and proper person” and had her practising certificate suspended by the NSW Law Society at the end of last month, ...

Earlier this week, A-G Symes welcomed judicial registrar and Law Institute of Victoria board director Majella Foster-Jones, barrister and judicial registrar Michael Gurvich, Law and Advocacy Centre ...

Mid this month, the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA) welcomed the appointments of six new magistrates, five of which are women. They are Julie Kearney, Caroline Jenkins, Samantha ...

Amid an attempt to overturn a bankruptcy notice, Sandra Henri Edmonds and David James Edmonds, along with their solicitor, levelled serious, “scandalous”, and ill-founded allegations against ...

The Supreme Court’s decision set aside the ruling of the QLD Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which dismissed the application by made by the state’s Legal Services Commissioner (LSC) to have Rhonda ...

The State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia (SAT) has reprimanded and fined Perth legal practitioner Paul Andrew Hardie $20,000, finding that his conduct “fell substantially below a ...

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has elevated 52 of its lawyers across its Australian offices to the position of senior associate, effective 1 July. This content is available exclusively to Lawyers ...

Speaking with Lawyers Weekly, Emma Howard, national mental health manager and in-house psychologist at Clayton Utz, along with Emily Woodlands, health, safety and wellbeing manager at the firm, ...

The Legal Services and Complaints Committee (LSCC) agreed to settle a disciplinary matter with solicitor Richard Parker Camm in the Western Australian State Administrative Tribunal earlier this week.

The gross misconduct of Elisa Kate Berry between 2017 and 2022 had “so seriously abused and betrayed the public trust reposed in her”, Justice Stephen O’Meara said in his decision to have her struck ...

Marque Lawyers is a law firm that prides itself in its customised, client-centered legal services. The law firm places great emphasis on its unique legal services charging system, “[W]e do not charge ...

The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) has thrown out a disciplinary case against Brisbane solicitor James Matthew Lavercombe, clearing him of professional misconduct and ruling he ...