News

March 2012

A New Zealand man has been sentenced to community detention for trying to strangle a pet goat in his frustration after losing his house keys.
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Melbourne law firm Goddard Elliott has avoided paying $675k to a former client which the firm negligently advised, thanks to an old law which offers l
A sometime consultant for Minter Ellison has made himself popular by offering up Australia as a site for contaminated waste from the destroyed Fukushi
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An American attorney is suing 14 law schools on behalf of unemployed law graduates for allegedly misrepresenting graduate employment statistics.
A company looking for an in-house lawyer in Denver, Colorado has posted a b
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The Times has published its countdown of the most influential lawyers in the country, for the first time including a rundown of the top ten City lawye
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Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens and Bristol's Bond Pearce
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The Leveson Inquiry into press ethics has cost the public purse an eye watering £2 million, with legal staff pocketing almost a third of the total exp
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Adam Liaw, who scooped the Masterchef title back in 2010, has been signed up to present his own TV show on SBS.
Herbert Smith, widely recognised as one of the UK's finest litigation firms, has been given a bollocking by a top judge for a disclosure exercise he d
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In what's shaping up to be an epic family feud, three of billionaire Gina Rinehart's four children are suing her for putting their inheritance out of
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Russell Brand has allegedly smashed a window belonging to a US law firm in a shock attack which has left innocent lawyers cowering from sea to shining
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Six former high-rollers from the Olympus Corporation were charged by Japanese police this week as an ongoing investigation into the hiding of huge los
The Good Foundation, which is partnered with UK chef Jamie Oliver to set up Jamie's Ministry of Food Australia, has employed Maddocks as its sole lega
The managing partner of Dundas & Wilson resigned yesterday with immediate effect, shocking the Scottish legal market. 
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