Macpherson + Kelley law firm news

Rain-sodden Brisbane is still shaping up as one of the hottest markets for the legal industry in 2011– but local firms are wary of the ever-increasing competition

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.

Macpherson+Kelley (M+K) has struck again, this time in regional Victoria, adding the founders of family law firm McCarthyHoey Lawyers to the Dandenong practice.

The Brisbane legal market is off to an eventful 2011 with floods, mergers and a new player on the scene.

Macpherson + Kelley Lawyers has hit another snag in its Great Southern Managed Investment Scheme class action, but the firm remains confident the case will go ahead.

ALB Fast 10 firm Macpherson+Kelley Lawyers (M+K) is to merge with Queensland firm BCI Lawyers in January 2011.

Queensland’s growing infrastructure and property industry are behind the merger of Gadens Brisbane and Maunsell Pennington.

Gadens Lawyers Brisbane and fellow Brisbane firm Maunsell Pennington are to merge in the coming months.

2009 ALB Fast 10 firm Macpherson + Kelley has continued its strong growth trajectory following a merger with boutique Melbourne workplace and legal training firm Douglas LPT.

Macpherson + Kelley’s class action against Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has been thrown out of the Supreme Court of Victoria.

TressCox Lawyers has added another partner to its litigation division.

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.

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

Sydney may have lost some of its lustre during the GFC, but firms are confident that the Harbour City is set the regain its sparkle. ALB investigates

ALB Fast 10 firm Macpherson + Kelley has announced a merger with Tasmanian firm Dobson Mitchell & Allport. The merger means that M+K will now have 115 lawyers, 41 of whom are principals, the firm's partner equivalent.

ALB Fast 10 firm Macpherson+Kelley (M+K) has announced a new phase of growth with three new senior appointments.

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

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

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank managing director Mike Hirst has accused Macpherson + Kelley (M+K) of inadequately advising clients, tampering with communications between the bank and its customers, and withholding “vital information” from its clients

Andrew Bristow has joined Macpherson + Kelley’s Sydney office as a principal in the corporate and commercial group, bringing with him a team of four including special counsel Catriona Glover, senior associate Fleur Gibson and two legal secretaries