Analysis
  • ANALYSIS: Major firm consolidation in SME space? (2 comments)
    By Renu Prasad | Monday, 16 August 2010

    It would be going too far to say that M+K Lawyers' Damian Paul is Melbourne's answer to Danny Gilbert - but this entrepreneurial MD has more than a few bright ideas of his own on how to build an innovative firm.
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  • ANALYSIS: The real North face
    By ALB | Thursday, 5 August 2010

    Talks of Australian law firm mergers may be continuing to simmer,but the real action is happening in the Northern hemisphere
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  • ANALYSIS: The devil in the detail
    By ALB | Thursday, 5 August 2010

    Major reform to the regulation of the legal profession is on the cards – but the details of the legislation are being hotly contested.
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  • ANALYSIS: Catching a Crabb
    By Renu Prasad | Wednesday, 14 July 2010

    ALB examines the implications of Gilbert + Tobin's alliance with Perth firm Blakiston & Crabb
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  • ANALYSIS: Aussies provide alternative to LPO
    By Joshua Scott | Thursday, 20 May 2010

    Indian legal process outsourcers (LPO) may have flagged their intention to enter the flourishing Australian legal services market, but they would be ill-advised to replicate their Indian model in Australia. ALB investigates.
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  • ANALYSIS: The North Face
    By ALB | Monday, 10 May 2010

    Blake Dawson in Tokyo, Clayton Utz in Hong Kong and Minter Ellison in Beijing: there seems to be an Asia renaissance for Australian firms. ALB investigates
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  • ANALYSIS: Privatise or perish
    By ALB | Thursday, 29 April 2010

    Privatisation might be the modern equivalent of selling off the farm, but it is providing lawyers with a unique and challenging new line of work. ALB investigates.
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  • ANALYSIS: Making the move
    By ALB | 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.
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  • ANALYSIS: 2010: Perfect storm for PE practices
    By Luke Cornish | 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
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  • Analysis: Alternative billing movement gathers momentum
    By Luke Cornish | 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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  • Analysis: Blake Dawson breaking new ground in Japan
    By Luke Cornish | Wednesday, 9 December 2009

    A strategic review of Blake Dawson’s operations looking to find ways to take the firm to the next level ended in a decision to become the first Australian law firm to open an office in Japan. The move has not been all plain sailing as the firm and Japanese regulators are both breaking new ground but Blake Dawson’s north Asia head, Ian Williams, hopes that it will be a case of the early bird catching the worm
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  • ANALYSIS: Exit strategy
    By Luke Cornish | Thursday, 19 November 2009

    Private equity firms that have been forced to hold onto assets during the GFC are now asking lawyers to examine strategies to offload those assets. ALB looks at whether there will suddenly be a rush for the exit
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