New Yorkers are usually one step ahead on trends, even when it comes to the pandemic. Manhattan streets are alive with vaccinated office workers, but one thing has not returned with them: classic business attire. Wall Street lawyers and bankers are strolling back to the office wearing jeans, t-shirts and […]
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Seqwater wins appeal into 2011 Brisbane flood, victims now high and dry
She said Maurice Blackburn lawyers explained the ruling to her on Tuesday and she was “devastated” by the news, after suffering a stroke two months ago and losing her husband, John, in 2020. “It’s just going to be the last straw for some people,” Ms Lynch said. “I’m disappointed, and […]
Melbourne’s little corner store that has traded since 1884
Records show the vendor was Waratah Properties, which bought the factory behind Westgarth Primary School, in 1973. The company was formerly known as Steiger and Boehm, a company which featured in the 1982 Royal Commission into the Meat Industry for its part in the 1970s meat substitution scandal. Colliers agents […]
Terror trio unlikely to have plotted attack without inducement from undercover cop
The trio went as far as paying a $450 deposit for a rifle, but they abandoned their plans to buy the firearm the day before their arrests on November 20, 2018. They have been in custody since. Hanifi Halis.Credit:Nine News Judge O’Connell said the three men had embraced an opportunity […]
ATO accuses PwC of improper use of lawyers to conceal tax affairs
Accounting giant PwC has been accused of improperly using lawyers to provide tax advice to multinational clients for the sole purpose of invoking legal privilege to deny authorities access to documents during tax audits. The Australian Tax Office launched a lawsuit against big four accounting firm PwC last June to […]
Santos hit with climate change lawsuit over ‘net zero’ claims from ACCR
Oil and gas giant Santos has been hit with a lawsuit over allegedly misleading and deceptive claims about its environmental credentials, including that the company has a clear plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 and that natural gas is a ‘clean fuel’. The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility […]
How Goodwin’s Big Bet on Tech ‘Convergence’ Pushed Up Revenue
Goodwin Procter has seen its top line roughly double from $678 million to $1.5 billion over the last 10 years, thanks in large part to a playbook that focuses on the intersection of technology and capital. The firm developed what it calls its “convergence strategy” roughly a decade ago in […]
Dentons continues Brisbane expansion | ICLG
Dentons has continued to expand its partnership in Brisbane by hiring a corporate partner. Dentons has continued to expand its partnership in Brisbane by hiring a corporate partner. Caroline Snow has joined Dentons after two years at Brisbane law firm AJ&Co Lawyers. She is a corporate partner with a focus […]
Markets Live, Thursday 26 August, 2021
The Australian sharemarket eroded two days of progress on Thursday as the mining, banking, and health blue-chips weighed and earnings sentiment was again dominated by uncertainty. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.5 per cent to halt a three-day rally, closing at 7491.2 to remain narrowly in front for the week. […]
Lawyer pay to rise 10pc in hot jobs market
The pressure meant the mode, or most frequent salary, for a partner at a top-tier firm in Sydney rose to $1.45 million – up $100,000 on 2019 (Mahlab did not do a salary table in 2020 because of negligible increases). In Melbourne, it was $1.35 million and Brisbane and Perth. […]