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  • Balance Legal: secondment lawyers
    | Monday, 9 February 2009
    Balance Legal is a law firm with a difference. It is unique in both the way it services its clients and in the experience offered to its legal staff.
  • Freehills
    | Thursday, 19 June 2008
    Freehills is a leading Australian and International commercial law firm with a long history working in Asia.
  • ANALYSIS: Making the move
    | Tuesday, 16 March 2010
    Cooper Grace Ward has recently moved to a new office in Brisbane while Allens Arthur Robinson, Clayton Utz, and Freehills all have plans to move in the near future. ALB looks at the savings currently available to firms who make the move.
  • Clutz unfreezes salaries
    | Wednesday, 24 February 2010
    Clayton Utz has brought forward its remuneration review, giving lawyers the opportunity for a raise for the first time in a year
  • Watchlist - firms to watch
    | Wednesday, 17 February 2010
    As the industry enters the New Year with a renewed sense of optimism, ALB singles out ten firms that are set to have a big 2010
  • Property finally shows signs of recovery
    | Wednesday, 17 February 2010
    Real estate lawyers who have had to suffer through reports of the upturn in the general economy finally have reason to join the celebrations as a spate of recent deals points towards a recovery in the beleaguered practice area
  • Allen & Overy Australian offices to be integrated with Asia
    | Thursday, 11 February 2010
    In a strong indication of how Allen & Overy’s brand new Australia presence will fit into its worldwide operations, Thomas Brown, managing partner for Asia, will be overseeing the two new offices in Sydney and Perth.
  • ANALYSIS: 2010: Perfect storm for PE practices
    | Wednesday, 3 February 2010
    Law firms with private equity clients can expect to be burdened with a heavy workload in the next 12 months, but determining exactly what practice groups will shoulder that workload requires partners to look at their clients’ situations
  • Fix to schemes of arrangement to boost M&A activity
    | Tuesday, 2 February 2010
    The Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC) has released a report recommending an overhaul of schemes of arrangement – a move that Freehills partner Tony Damian for one said would make Australia a more attractive place for foreign investment and increase the workload for M&A lawyers
  • Analysis: Alternative billing movement gathers momentum
    | Wednesday, 27 January 2010
    The Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) is in negotiations with its legal panel over a possible alternative billing arrangement in a sign that the desire for fixed-fee and other non-hourly billing methods has spread from private-sector clients to public-sector clients
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