155 ABA Journal Australia articles.
Apr 1, 2016 3:00 AM CDT
The first law firm to go public may be on the verge of collapse after reporting a loss of nearly $700 million during the second half of 2015.
On Monday,…
Feb 29, 2016 12:05 PM CST
Share prices of the world’s first publicly owned law firm lost 65 percent of their value last Thursday and Friday, but prices partially recovered this week.
The share price…
Nov 30, 2015 7:32 AM CST
Malcolm Turnbull, a former prominent lawyer and banker, will be the new Prime Minister of Australia after he successfully ousted the controversial Tony Abbott from power.
The long-running struggle between…
Sep 14, 2015 1:10 PM CDT
A former firefighter in his late 60s has been arrested and faces more than 30 charges, including murder, in a series of family-court-related attacks that terrorized the legal community in…
Jul 29, 2015 12:10 PM CDT
An Australian judge is under fire for ordering a mother to stop breastfeeding her 11-month-old child because she got a tattoo.
An appeals court on Friday unanimously overturned the order…
Jun 22, 2015 1:35 PM CDT
The limited value of a court protective order against a determined individual was dramatically illustrated this week after authorities alleged that Jamie Francis Sager drove a stolen bulldozer through a…
Jun 9, 2015 3:50 PM CDT
Slater & Gordon, the world’s first publicly traded law firm, is poised to acquire most of a major United Kingdom competitor.
Assuming that Quindell partners agree in an April 17…
Mar 30, 2015 9:05 AM CDT
A lawyer was killed early Tuesday after being held hostage along with 16 other people in a cafe in Sydney for most of the day Monday by a self-described Muslim…
Dec 16, 2014 12:15 PM CST
Publicly held law firm Slater & Gordon has announced a plan to encourage its workers in its United Kingdom offices to purchase stock in their employer’s…
Jul 11, 2014 3:15 PM CDT
A person who identifies as “spansexual”—neither man nor woman—may register a “nonspecific” gender on official certificates in New South Wales, Australia’s High Court ruled last week.
The court ruled last…
Apr 7, 2014 1:21 PM CDT
A former chief executive of an intellectual property law firm in New Zealand has admitted he never earned the law degree reportedly included on the curriculum vitae he submitted to…
Feb 26, 2014 5:05 PM CST
Decades after women were given Thalidomide to combat morning sickness during pregnancy in the 1950s and 1960s and wound up delivering babies with missing or deformed limbs and other birth…
Dec 4, 2013 12:00 AM CST
First there was the mid-exam fire alarm that sent some 450 law students taking a closed-book corporations test to mill around outside for a half-hour or so Nov. 12.
Then,…
Nov 26, 2013 6:40 PM CST
A judge has declared a mistrial and is considering holding a juror in contempt because her “total lack of manners” distracted others in the case.
The unidentified woman rolled her…
Nov 5, 2013 7:20 PM CST
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