Hall & Wilcox law firm news

Hall & Wilcox is a full-service commercial firm that is widely recognised as a genuine alternative to the top tier firms. The firm was named Melbourne Law Firm of the Year 2007 by Australasian Legal Business magazine.

Hall & Wilcox's approach to legal practice is strategic and commercially focused. the firm strives to provide clients with the best, most practical legal advice whilst ensuring the highest level of client service.

Revealing the winners at the 2011 ALB-Macquarie Bank Law Awards: which firms collected the honours this year?

2011 promises to be another year of intrigue and transformation for many of Australia and New Zealand’s best-known firms. ALB starts the year by nominating ten firms for whom 2011 will be a particularly critical year. Whether they are law firms primed for growth or ones that are looking to recover from a setback, here are the firms that have a point to prove to the market.

Middletons has added a new partner to its property team, this time in Perth. Michael Hain has joined the firm from Corrs Chambers Westgarth and has 18 years of legal practice experience.

Hall & Wilcox has appointed Pamela McAlister, a former Freehills funds management partner, as partner and head of its superannuation team.

Ex-Freehills recruit Penny Stevens has left Hall & Willcox after just one year.

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.

Businesses are now turning their attention back to compliance issues

Businesses are now turning their attention back to compliance issues

Melbourne: the spiritual home of AFL, the W class tram and some of the nation’s most enterprising young law firms. ALB investigates.

Gadens has advised the ING Real Estate Entertainment Fund on a A$39m placement and renounceable rights issue – the fifth A-REIT capital raising Gadens has worked on in the last 18 months.

New Zealand firm Bell Gully has appointed former Linklaters global client development head Cecilia Burgess as the firm’s new chief operating officer.

Gadens partners Natalie Bannister and John O'Kane have made the move to Hall & Wilcox.

A recent transaction whereby private equity firm Catalyst Investment acquired refrigeration and air-conditioner wholesaler Actrol brings renewed hope for future transactional activity, according to AAR partner Steve Clifford.

The economic woes of the past 18 months have been well documented, but some law firms still managed to record exceptional growth in FY09. ALB''s annual Fast 10 returns to acknowledge the fastest growing firms of the year

Workplace lawyers around the country have good reason to toast the start of the New Year: 2010 looks set to be a bumper year for IR work

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

Hall & Wilcox and Middletons have advised on Harbert Australia Private Equity’s acquisition of a minority stake in premium skin care brand Aēsop

Thomson Playford Cutlers is the latest law firm to focus part of its growth strategy on workplace relations. In order to do this, the mid-tier firm has recruited a three-person strong team from Donaldson Walsh to work in its Adelaide office