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March 2011

  Ever wondered what happened to Ian Aust
Police swooped last weekend as two tiny children were spotted committing an outrage against flowers in a public park.
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The US bonus season is gathering pace with fat wads of cash being handed out to US lawyers.
It's Senior Partner election time at Linklaters, where partners are r
As part of continuing attempts to improve diversity in the legal profession, several leading law firms have announced that they will be throwing the r
In an unguarded moment, the director of business development at the College of Law has admitted that only 60% of the institution's students have a 2:1
The infamous - and earless - Australian criminal and media personality Mark "Chopper" Read has found himself at the centre of a legal wrangle between
A 17 year-old NSW student has been arrested and charged by the police for harassment after a Chatsworth schoolgirl's Facebook party invitation was spr
Japan has been left reeling after the magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the country's northern Pacific coast on Friday.
A legal wrangle over the IP rights to the name "Sydney Water" has taken a bizarre twist after the defendant, entrepreneur Paul Makucha, attempted to g
In completely expected news yesterday, the remaining Howrey partnership has voted to wind up the much-abandoned firm, which now has only days left to
Dov Charney, the man behind hipster clothing company American Apparel, is facing a lawsuit from an ex-employee who has accused him of trapping her in
Dramatic Six Nations scenes were re-enacted at Woolwich Crown Court as Judge Douglas Marks Moore rugby tackled a convicted sex offender to the ground
According to the annual 100 Best Companies to Work For survey by The Sunday Times, Mishcon de Reya beats all other law firms by quite some distance.
The latest round of trainee retention is over, and retention rates have continued to rise - hitting an impressive overall average of 86%.
Following on from last week's glimpse into the bonkers world of
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Edward Karkowski of Willoughby Council is being investigated by the Independent Commission Against Corruption following accusations that he received s