$1000 an hour for Maurice Blackburn lawyers

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• Antoinette Lattouf wins unlawful termination case against the ABC, awarded $70,000 compensation - ABC News
   

  • Court supplied summary - Lattouf v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (No 2) [2025] FCA 669
     

  • Lattouf v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (No 2) [2025] FCA 669
     

  • Contempt proceedings against SMH and Age staff in Lattouf case ‘probably doomed’, Nine’s lawyers argue | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | The Guardian
     

  • Law Report Special: Federal Court finds ABC unlawfully terminated Antoinette Lattouf over Gaza post - Law Report - Apple Podcasts

     

• Bruce Lehrmann's bid to have Toowoomba rape charges halted will be heard next month - ABC News
   

• NSW political staffers to appear at caravan plot inquiry after being threatened with arrest for failing to attend | New South Wales politics | The Guardian

   

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• Stallard v Treasury Wine Estates Limited [2025] VSC 368 (24 June 2025)

  [91] Post 30 June 2024, a Principal at Maurice Blackburn with more than 15 years’ experience was charging $1,061.35 per hour.[89] By comparison, a Principal at Slater and Gordon’s hourly rate was $777.[90] The difference between the charge-out rates is 36.59%.

  [92] Post 30 June 2024 the hourly rate for Maurice Blackburn’s Senior Associates was $842.64[91] and $630 for a Senior Associate at Slater and Gordon.[92] The difference between the two is 33.75%.

  [93] Post 30 June 2024 Associates at Maurice Blackburn were charged out at $739.73 per hour[93] whilst Associates at Slater and Gordon were charged out at $561.75 per hour.[94] The difference between the two is 31.68%.

  [94] Post 30 June 2024 Maurice Blackburn’s lawyers with more than one year experience had an hourly rate of $611.08 by the time proceeding settled.[95] Lawyers at Slater and Gordon had an hourly rate of $451.50.[96] Maurice Blackburn charged 35.34% more than Slater and Gordon for lawyers.
   

• The Elephant in the Courtroom - Episode 6 - Apple Podcasts

  In this episode, the Elephants (Sydney barristers Nick Hogan and Awais Ahmad) talk privacy, proof and dignity as they discuss Justice Lee’s decision in Lehrmann Higgins, the Full Federal Court’s dismissal of the Ben Roberts-Smith appeal and the freshly minted statutory tort of breach of privacy. We hope you enjoy the joust.
   

• ACN 117 641 004 Pty Ltd (in liq) v S&P Global, Inc (No 5) [2025] FCA 687

  [6] S&P subsequently filed further evidence on Friday, 20 June 2025. That evidence now discloses that Ms Rose is in fact willing to travel to Australia but indicates that Ms Jordan remains unwilling to do so due to concerns about her employment security because of the domestic climate in the United States for Federal government employees (of which she is presently one)…
   

• Pethers v Pethers (No 2) [2025] NSWSC 561 (2 June 2025) - Meek J

  [1] Correctly discerning meaning from text, speech, gestures and other cues is a vital life skill. A smile or a nod between a couple or friends or strangers “exchanging glances”[1] may be all that is needed to convey and receive clarity of intention.

  Footnote [1] - As the lyrics go in Frank Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night (recorded in 1966, written by Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder).
   

• Wilson v Department of Human Services - re Anna [2010] NSWSC 1489 (17 December 2010)

  [113] For these reasons, the practice of salutations by advocates should be completely abandoned in all Courts in all contentious litigation.
   

• Sean 'Diddy' Combs declines to take the stand in sex trafficking trial - ABC News
   

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