JUST because you build a better mouse-trap doesn't mean customers and investors will start beating a path to your door. Companies need to make sure there is a need for their product and a niche for it in the market.
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
The team at Fraser's in Kings Park have decided that having one of the city's best views isn't enough ... there's a new look inside too, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
JUST as former Labor premier Brian Burke vacated the media spotlight over lobbying, his long-time party pal Kim Beazley came into its beam.
State Scene certainly never expected to be re-focusing on Mr Beazley so soon
INDUSTRY speculation has it that the name McCusker is at, or near, the top of the list to head the State Government's proposed Crime and Corruption Commission.
CRIMINAL law runs through the veins of Robert Mazza, who has followed in the footsteps of his late father.
Mr Mazza was articled with his father in the early 1980s and the two worked together for two decades, until Jim Mazza passed away in 1999.
MERGERS and Acquisitions was the most keenly contested category in the Legal Elite 2003 survey.
Six lawyers attracted substantial support from across the industry and, at the end of counting, they were separated by only a handful of nominations.
MARGARET River wine industry pioneer David Hohnen is on the hunt for a chief executive officer to take over the operations of Cape Mentelle Vineyards the company he co-founded in 1970.
THE past year has provided a fresh change for Perth's top property lawyer, KPMG Legal partner Ted Sharp.
After more than 20 years with Freehills and its predecessor Parker & Parker, Mr Sharp chose to pursue new opportunities at a much smaller firm.
IT is good to note that Fisheries Minister Kim Chance is taking a close interest in the rock lobster industry, one of our most successful niche exports.
WITH more than 20 years under his belt at law practice Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Chris Stevenson is going solo.
Considered Western Australia's elite Native Title lawyer, by his peers, Mr Stevenson is planning a move mid-year to the independent bar
COMPANIES that want to begin or extend in-house research programs and lack the time or the resources are being encouraged to contact the University of Western Australia's CEED offic
AFTER years of lacklustre growth and playing second fiddle to southern regional centres, the Mid-West regional city of Geraldton is experiencing a change in fortunes. And investors are beginning to take note.
WITH the lifestyle themes becoming more important in the marketing of residential estates, it is common for these developments to be built around recreational facilities such as golf courses, ornamental lakes or marinas.
THE 100-metre setback guideline for all development in the State Government's new coastal planning policy has received a mixed response from the property development industry.
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.
Healthy and fast are two words that don't often appear in the same sentence when descibing food, but as Julie-anne Sprague reports, that's not always the case.
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.
