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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.
  • 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
  • Return of the mega-projects
    | Tuesday, 26 January 2010
    When the financial crisis hit, major infrastructure projects were shelved as developers struggled to find funds. However, the financial close of Melbourne''s A$3.7bn desalination plant marked the end of the crisis - and the return of the mega-project
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