With the new year in full swing, graduate and junior legal professionals are looking to excel in an ever-competitive and dynamic market. Here, four firm heads weigh in on what they’re most keen to see ...

Two HSF partners have highlighted the biggest headwinds they’re having to grapple, both internally and externally, and how this has altered the way in which they approach leadership.

Discover the winners and finalists of the prestigious Australian Law Awards 2025 by Lawyers Weekly.

Folklaw, with Lawyers Weekly, consulted with their followers in Facebook to find out why lawyers have such a bad reputation, why they are at the butt end of so many bad jokes and the three main ...

Jason Ricketts and David Hugo, both former senior partners at Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), have launched Chord Advisory, a boutique firm that integrates legal and consultancy services.

MinterEllison has promoted 10 lawyers to its partnership, as well as 14 to special counsel, four to executive director, four to director, 51 to senior associate and eight to senior manager. This ...

A Federal Court judge has disqualified himself from presiding over a proceeding he was recently involved in as senior counsel.

In response to the Victorian government’s plan to legislate working from home as a legal right, leading lawyers across the state are weighing in on what this could mean for the legal profession.

New research from the College of Law has shown that corporate salaries continue to be the best in the legal profession, with 38 per cent of lawyers unhappy with their current pay.

Baker McKenzie is a Chicago-based multinational law firm that co-founders Russell Baker and John McKenzie launched as Baker & McKenzie in 1949.

Hicksons Lawyers (nearly 300 partners and staff) and Hunt & Hunt NSW (almost 90 partners and staff) have agreed to integrate their operations, creating a competitive new force in the Sydney market ...

A Sydney legal practitioner and her solicitor husband will be examined by the Legal Services Commissioner after they made serious but baseless allegations against senior counsel and a District Court ...