LEE Christensen’s professional fate was decided when he was articled to Ron Harmer, the guru of insolvency law, in 1982.
Mr Christensen has never looked back from that point, specialising in
AN attraction to the law might have led Mallesons Stephen Jaques partner Rob Lilburne into the profession but the pressure cooker of the Robe River Iron Ore dispute in the 1980s cemented his place in the industrial relations field.
PAUL Wright is one of several winners in the Legal Elite 2003 survey who left work at a big national firm to establish his own practice.
He formed Wright Legal in July 2000 after 17 years as a partner at Freehills and one of its predecessor firms
IT was a post-study trip in the US that inspired Tony van Merwyk to pursue a career in environmental planning law.
Mr van Merwyk completed a masters in international environmental law at the University of San Diego in 1990 and was travelling throughout
THE lawyers who dominated voting in the intellectual property category illustrate two very different aspects of this field of practice.
The top rated lawyer was Freehills partner Tony Joyner, who has a broad commercial law background and moved into the
FORMER Andersen audit partner Derek Parkin has racked up a couple of firsts since his old firm collapsed.
Of Andersen’s 10 former Perth partners, he is the only one to have added the title of professor to his resume.
IAIN Gerrard and Mike McNulty may have a new name on their business cards but in many respects their working lives have been unaffected by the collapse of Andersen.
A YAWNING chasm between the State’s research sector and its development counterpart appears to be the principal barrier to Western Australia securing a larger share of the national funding allotment.
FUND managers believe universities are too focused on basic research and do not have a strong commercial outlook. For their part the universities say that a failure to back pure research stifles ‘chance’ commercially viable opportunities.
WA does not have an innovation strategy and, according to TechStart Australia venture manager Marcus Christian, WA is the only State in Australia besides Tasmania without a biotechnology strategy.
MUCH is hanging on next month’s scheduled announcement of the preferred tenderer, or possibly tenderers, to supply electricity to Western Power in six West Kimberley centres.
THE Rising Stars Index is a platform to showcase private enterprises in Western Australia that have sustained high rates of growth over the two financial years ending June 30 2002.
MAINSHEET Corporate is a corporate strategy and advisory firm unlike any other.
While many corporate advisory firms have been established by lawyers, Mainsheet has grown up and still exists inside a law firm environment.
