This Month
Leaked pay reveals law firm’s $7m ‘super partners’
The pay that the four Corrs Chambers Westgarth partners are in line for blows out much of the legal industry.
- Mark Di Stefano
November
- Exclusive
- Professional moves
MinterEllison partners leave in rival firm raid
Adam Handley is among five top lawyers to be poached by HFW, which is trying to cash in on mining and resources deals in Western Australia and China.
- Maxim Shanahan
REITs M&A set to pop off in 2024: Corrs predictions
The firm also has its viewfinder pointed at the resource and energy sectors – the most active for M&A over the past 12 months.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Rebekah Giles’ fingerprints lead to PwC Senate standoff
The involvement of Sydney solicitor Rebekah Giles in the drafting of questions sent to PwC has triggered the firm’s latest standoff with the Senate.
- Myriam Robin
October
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Star dealmaker resigns after botched mid-air bathroom prank
A Corrs rainmaker resigned after a practical joke on another partner went wrong on a flight to Hobart.
- Mark Di Stefano
August
PwC tax ace the first to jump ship
PwC has lost two partners in the past week, one who moved there as part of acquisition of specialist tax lawyers Greenwoods in June 2022
- Michael Pelly
July
At $250k a day, battle of Perth billionaires is ultimate lawyers’ picnic
The top silk in the court fight between Gina Rinehart’s company and a family that is trying to claim billions of dollars in mining revenue is earning about $35,000 a day. And that’s just the start.
- Michael Pelly and Tom Rabe
- Exclusive
- PwC tax scandal
PwC partner sues to stop firm forcing him out over tax leaks
Richard Gregg has become the first partner named by the firm to take legal action to prevent PwC from forcing him out of its partnership.
- Edmund Tadros and Kylar Loussikian
War for legal talent fires up in the ‘engine room’
There is a strong crop of new senior associates, but some firms told The Australian Financial Review Law Partnership Survey they can’t get enough staff.
- Michael Pelly and Edmund Tadros
Female partners surge at top law firms (to one third)
Women now comprise more than 33 per cent of law firm partners, and parity looms by 2030, the latest Law Partnership survey reveals.
- Michael Pelly and Edmund Tadros
April
- Opinion
- Regulation
Nature positive will become the new net zero
New biodiversity targets are set to become as important for companies and their boards as the greenhouse gas emission targets set under the Paris Agreement.
- Louise Camenzuli and Julia Green
March
Company directors playing cyber ‘whack-a-mole’
Corrs Chambers Westgarth technology head James North says breach reporting is “incredibly difficult” and wants it streamlined.
- Lucas Baird
- Opinion
- Environmental protection
38 unloved trees and Tanya Plibersek’s poisoned chalice
Required by Anthony Albanese to approve gas and coal projects, the environment minister has a plan to protect her reputation.
- Aaron Patrick
Clayton Utz won’t dictate ‘Yes’ to Voice
The big six firm has broken ranks on a 2019 pledge by 18 law firms to support a Voice to parliament enshrined in the Constitution.
- Michael Pelly
- Opinion
- Legal industry
Why law firms are rethinking how they pay partners
The gaps in partner pay are widening as firms rejig remuneration models to reward top performers.
- Joel Barolsky
February
Law firms say ChatGPT an ‘opportunity, not a threat’
Australia’s leading law firms want their staff to embrace artificial intelligence tools.
- Michael Pelly
January
More firms offer swap for Australia Day public holiday
From the big four consultants to top legal firms, workplaces across the country are increasingly letting staff switch the Australia Day public holiday for alternative days off.
- Hannah Wootton and Tess Bennett
Catholic Church’s go-to lawyer joins rival firm after Corrs saga
Richard Leder says he believes his lucrative church clients will follow him to his new firm after Corrs sensationally dropped them as a client for child abuse work last July.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
It’s the year Labor brought the conflict model back to workplaces
Even the pro-union Biden administration has not handed unions the powers over employers and workers that Australia’s labour movement has got from Labor.
- Graeme Watson and Paul Burns
December 2022
Leading law firms bleed ‘engine room’ talent
Efforts to speed up promotions, offer pay increases and even poach staff from rivals have not been enough to bolster the ranks of senior associates.
- Hannah Wootton
