Harmers law firm news

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

Harmers Workplace Lawyers have continued to pursue former managing partner Joydeep Hor in the Supreme Court today.

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.

The return of M&A activity in the market is expected to bring increased work for workplace lawyers.

Workplace lawyers have little faith in the A$37m sexual harassment claim against David Jones succeeding.

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

More and more firms, it seems, are trying to find the best way to reconcile remuneration models with currently louder cries for alternative billing methods

ALB Guide: Employment Law 2009 is the latest in an exciting series of detailed insights into specific practice areas and the leading firms and lawyers operating within them

A surprising trend has emerged amid the uncertainty of the current job market: an increase in the number of bullying claims

An Australian Bill of Rights could open an entirely new line of work for Australian firms.

With corporations downsizing staff levels to cope with a slowing economy, ALB's Cabral Douglas investigates how unfair dismissal provisions under the new Workplace Relations Bill is going to affect workplace relations practices

Harmers Workplace Lawyers has appointed employment lawyer Lesley Maclou to partnership at the firm's Melbourne office. Maclou said she was attracted to Harmers because she wanted to have greater personal involvement in how her practice is run.

Sparke Helmore team expands by three lawyers

Sparke Helmore has expanded its workplace relations practice with three lawyers, bringing the total numbers in the practice to nine partners and more than 40 lawyers

The new Labor government has promised an overhaul of the industrial relations system, but lawyers say a new system is likely to be firmly based on the much-debated WorkChoices legislation. The profitable days of large scale industrial action and unfair contracts claims are gone forever

ALB is proud to announce the finalists for this year's Australasia Law Awards, which will be held at the Westin Hotel in Sydney on 15 May

The Work Choices legislation has been in place for over a year. ALB carches up with firms to see how it has impacted on their practice

Former staff partner Joydeep Hor has succeeded the founder of Harmers Workplace Lawyers, Michael Harmer, as managing partner. Harmer has assumed the role of chairman of partners at the firm

Former staff partner Joydeep Hor has succeeded the founder of Harmers Workplace Lawyers, Michael Harmer, as managing partner. Harmer has assumed the role of chairman of partners at the firm.

ALB is delighted to announce the winners of the 2006 Australasia Law Awards, which were held at the Sheraton on the Park in Sydney on 6 April