News

• Innovation awards launched

  ALPMA is urging law firms to step the innovation as entries open for the Thought Leadership Awards. read more

• International firm announces new Asia corporate head

  New senior consultant for DLA Piper in Hong Kong… US law firm pay rise could spread… UK government will reconsider threat to legal privilege… read more

• Disgraced Gold Coast lawyer arrested again

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• Firm pioneers career re-entry platform for women

  One firm is at the forefront of increasing diversity and inclusion as first on board a new program helping women re-enter the legal profession. read more

• Firm hosts art auction to support remote legal centre

  One firm has held an auction of Indigenous art to support a remote legal centre, stripped of funding. read more

• Trump orders surrogates to intensify criticism of judge and journalists

  An embattled Donald Trump urgently rallied his most visible supporters to defend his attacks on a federal judge's Mexican ancestry during a conference call on Monday in which he ordered them to question the judge's credibility and impugn reporters as racists. read more

• Law firm says multinationals need to do more to protect trademarks

  Baker & McKenzie elects next chairman… Herbert Smith Freehills M&A partner appointed editor of AJCL… Weak market conditions hits jobs for new Singapore law grads… read more

• College of Law launches innovation hub

  The College of Law has established a new Centre for Legal Innovation. read more

• Law Council appoints new CEO

  The Law Council of Australia has announced the appointment of a new CEO. read more

• Ally McBeal and useful party advice

  Five Minutes With… Jeremy Birch, Herbert Smith Freehills senior associate. read more