Lehrmann appeal submissions filed

Daily wrap  

• Bruce Lehrmann appeals against federal court finding he raped Brittany Higgins | Defamation law (Australia) | The Guardian
   

  • ‘Horror movie’: Bruce Lehrmann’s claim as he pushes court to overturn rapist finding | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
     

• Maurice Blackburn shuts out lawyers over billable hours ban [AFR paywall]

  Lawyers’ historic ban on recording their billable hours – the first of its kind – has led to a major escalation in the Labor-aligned law firm’s pay dispute.
   

• Adrian Portelli: Melbourne billionaire denies he invented ‘innocent explanation’ to hooning charges | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
   

  • ‘I have that smile on my face all the time’: Portelli versus police [The Australian paywall]

    Smiling at police after being allegedly caught ‘red handed’ hooning in Melbourne could have been nerves or just his trademark face, billionaire Adrian Portelli has told a court.
     

• Drink driving former lawyer Lauren Willgoose sentenced to eight years for hit-run crash that killed pedestrian - ABC News
   

• Glencore's McArthur River Mine fined for breaching NT sacred site laws over 13 years - ABC News
   

Editor’s picks

• Richard Beasley SC appointed to the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales
   

• Proximity acquired by global advisory services provider - Lawyers Weekly [paywall]
   

• US law firm King & Spalding readies Australian assault [AFR paywall]

  Street Talk understands the Atlanta-headquartered multinational is exploring opening an Australian beachhead.

International

• The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession
   

• Lazy Gen Z lawyers need more 'hand-holding', are 'always late and complain to HR when they are criticised' for their performance in £180,000 job | Daily Mail Online
   

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