Leading Australian law firm Freehill Hollingdale & Page has announced a merger between its Perth office and Perth practice Parker & Parker, to make Freehills Australia’s largest firm, with 180 partners. The move has prompted Parkers, a 27-partner firm, to leave the Allens Arthur Robinson Group, the alliance of Australian law firms which has a […]

A Law Society survey which found that 71 per cent of sole practitioners see themselves as specialists has prompted president Tony Girling to call on them to follow the lead set by barristers and band together in chambers-type arrangements. In an interview in this week’s edition of The Lawyer (see page 11) Girling argues that […]

Jersey is soon to establish a self-standing commission to supervise and help develop the island’s finance industry. Approval for the Financial Services Commission (FSC) was given by the States, Jersey’s legislative body, in October 1995 and draft legislation is awaited. The original target date for the introduction of the new body was 1 January 1998, […]