Legal industry pay revealed

Was this email forwarded to you?

Sign up for our free daily email newsletter at headnote.com.au

Daily wrap  

• Environment minister Tanya Plibersek taken to court over legal responsibilities to threatened species - ABC News
   

• Lisa Wilkinson challenges finding she acted unreasonably in broadcasting Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation | Defamation law (Australia) | The Guardian
   

• Cybercops on the trail: Slater + Gordon culprit could face prison [The Australian paywall]

  The mystery culprit who sent a ‘malicious’ email to all staff at legal giant Slater + Gordon – ­including details of the salary and performance ratings of every ­employee – could be facing years in prison if caught.
   

• Victorian OPP to appeal five-and-a-half year jail term for driver behind fatal Strathmerton crash - ABC News
   

• Billionaire a no show in court to fight hooning charges [The Australian paywall]

  Adrian Portelli has used a doctor’s letter to avoid giving evidence in person as he fights careless driving charges and denies doing donuts around a Melbourne street in a Mercedes C63.
   

  • Rich-lister Adrian Portelli agues alleged 2020 hooning was result of GPS ‘bugging out’ | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

     

• Charges confirmed against former SA opposition leader David Speirs - ABC News
   

• $20M settlement in NAB class action OK'd despite concerns over lawyers’ fees - Lawyerly [paywall]
   

  • Williams & Kersten Pty Ltd v National Australia Bank Limited (No 5) [2025] FCA 155
     

• Fury at lying ex-cop’s suppression order in Jack de Belin perjury case | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
   

Editor’s picks

• Gender pay gaps getting worse in Aussie law firms - Lawyers Weekly [paywall]
   

  • Industry Data Explorer | WGEA Gender Equality Data
     

    

    WEGA data for legal services industry (industry class 6931)

   

• High Court delivers ruling in KMD detention case; Closing arguments heard in Lattouf v ABC trial - Law Report - Apple Podcasts
  What steps does a mentally ill offender have to take to convince authorities they no longer pose a risk to the community or to themselves? And the Federal Court has heard closing arguments in the high-profile employment law dispute between freelance journalist Antoinette Lattouf and the ABC.
   

• Issues of Complicity -How to be Guilty Without Pulling the Trigger –Think Foley's – Apple Podcasts
  In this session, Foley’s barristers Neill Hutton SC, Daniel Ryan & Megan Styles address how individuals can be held criminally responsible for an offence without directly committing the act, through aiding, abetting, or encouraging the principal offender.
   

Like our free newsletter? The best way to support us is to tell your colleagues about our newsletter!

We love feedback - [email protected]