The legal profession hasn't escaped the skills shortage affecting industries across Australia, with many respondents to this year's Legal Elite reporting there is a shortage of lawyers available to undertake work.
If winning the big jobs is a measure of success, then Freehills gets top billing in the insolvency market this year after being appointed as legal adviser to the administrators of failed mining company Sons of Gwalia.
Among the Phillips Fox property team, which was highly rated in the Legal Elite survey, many respondents nominated Paul McQueen as the stand-out performer in a wide field of quality lawyers.
An upsurge in strike activity and the prospect of major Federal Government reforms has placed industrial relations front and centre as a business issue in Western Australia.
Economic Regulation Authority chairman Lyndon Rowe famously told an Australian Institute of Energy lunch last year that one of his key performance measures should be to reduce the amount of time spent with lawyers.
No sooner had Michael Lundberg become a partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in January this year than he was thrust into the action, representing Kumba Resources Ltd against Gina Rinehart's private companies in negotiating a settlement in relation to the
The loss of a high-profile founding partner can be a challenging time for any business, but the retirement last June of Rick Crabb seems to have done nothing to dent the reputation of West Perth law firm Blakiston & Crabb.
Unlike most of the categories in this year's Legal Elite, which primarily focus on the major industry players, the planning and environment section features practitioners from both large and small firms.
Siteworks have started for a nine-storey, 32-apartment complex at 990 Wellington Street, West Perth, which has generated controversy amid claims the development is outside City of Perth's Town Planning Scheme guidelines.
Outgoing national president of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Warren Kerr, says the appointment of a government architect, Professor Geoff London, was the most tangible legacy of the Year of the Built Environment.
A distinctive feature of the corporate law market in Perth is the prominence of boutique firms, which consistently give the big national firms a run for their money.
Charles and Denise Boog, owners and proprietors of Just Espresso in Preston Street, South Perth, are as passionate about their coffee as they are about the fair trade practices they use.
Examining the thinking of Perth's council candidates has provided some interesting fodder for thought, especially with regard to issues confronting our central city and its role as our capital.
Last month, State Scene outlined how the National Party handed the balance of power in the upper house to the Greens by way of a secret, ideologically contradictory cross-preference deal, rather than ensuring it went to the conservatives, with whom most r
If ever proof was needed that vintage can vary dramatically from sub-region to sub-region, Fonty's Pool winemaker Mark Morton provided it when he gave Gusto an insight into Pemberton's growing season.
FORTESCUE Metals Group has been forced to clarify to the Australian Stock Exchange both its capital cost and mineral resource estimates for developing its Pilbara iron ore project.
The head of the WA Department of Industry and Resources, Jim Limerick, declared last week that the local nickel industry had become the state's second most valuable mineral sector after iron ore.
Perth data transcription and duplication company SpectrumData is poised for further growth after recently being awarded ongoing contracts in the petroleum industry.
I noted a recent Federal Government initiative to allow backpackers an additional year on their working holiday visas – something that I believe is long overdue and still probably doesn't go far enough.
With the upper house still debating Jim McGinty's One Vote One Value Bill, which some Liberal MPs and all Nationals view unfavourably, it's worth considering several less publicised aspects of the ongoing issue of vote weighting in rural seats.
Woolworths is trading on a prospective price/earnings ratio of 16.85. BHP Billiton is on 9.85. Can anyone explain the gap between two of Australia's corporate icons because it is ridiculously wide?
Peter Laurance's Pivot Group is gearing up to begin a $140 million, three-level retail development at 100 St Georges Terrace, creating a significant new retail precinct in the CBD.
The Housing and Urban Research Institute of Western Australia (HURIWA) has appointed Associate Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie as the first full-time director.
Winemakers have faced a final hurdle as vintage 2005 draws to a close, particularly in the South West, where recent rain has added a extra dimension to near-completed programs.
Two gold industry awards for outstanding community service were also presented at the dinner to John Dow, former Australian Gold Council Chairman and Newmont Australia managing director and Hugh Da
There is a fascinating battle under way over states' rights and taxation, with federal Treasurer Peter Costello wielding his new-found power as chieftain of the biggest pot of gold the nation has ever seen – the GST.
