Clock counting down on large debt claimed by former Baker McKenzie partner … Breakup of Kazakhstan-based firm as former colleagues peeled off to a rival business with partnership assets …  Australian lawyers abroad … Two decades of litigation later … Mae Milne has the latest

Hotly pursued dispute between former partners in offshore law firm … An avalanche of litigation … Foreign Judgments Act … Registration in NSW Supreme Court of foreign judgments … Overlapping litigation … Stay orders vacated … Mae Milne reports

Objectionable solicitor ruled ineligible to represent his own firm in turgid and tangled litigation … Administration of bankrupt lawyers’ estates … Scandalous accusations … Irrelevant messages to judges … Litigation Kazakhstan style …  Mae Milne reports

Hourly rates for celebrity reputation repair shop … Uplift and away … What it costs to win … Stand off in “shameful” case … Commercially sensitive exhibit revealed … Report from judges’ associate Ginger Snatch

Lawyer sued over waste of time and money for unsuccessful defence … Obligation to warn … Failure to read documents – unwise, but not negligent … Client disabused of false expectations … Lawyer in the clear … Anthony Kanaan reports