Criminal lawyers at Slater and Gordon have curated a list of some of Australia’s most bizarre criminal offences. This content is available exclusively to Lawyers Weekly premium members. If you’re ...

Firm: Piper Alderman (Lindsay Dynan). This content is available exclusively to Lawyers Weekly premium members. Key players: The Piper Alderman team was led by partner Lis Boyce, who was supported by ...

After weeks of no contact, clients of Trent Rogaris learnt “several painful revelations” about the man who had pretended to be their solicitor, including a recent payment of $330,000 was missing, his ...

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 ...

The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) recommended that Peter Elliot Clark’s name be removed from the roll of legal practitioners, having found him guilty of both unsatisfactory ...

The NSW Court of Appeal has referred the whole of the papers relating to a number of extraordinary allegations made by Marie Odtojan and her husband Artem Bryl, who practise together as Odtojan Bryl ...

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 ...

Jerome Doraisamy is the managing editor of Lawyers Weekly and HR Leader. He is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in New South Wales, and a board director of ...

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, ...

The second annual 2019 State of the Industry survey, released last week by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), encompassed responses from over 200 companies of different sizes ...

Mouna Youssef, who was admitted to practice in 2012 and opened her own office as a sole practitioner in 2015, was the subject of a routine trust account inspection from the Law Society of NSW, with ...