Whenever the opportunity presents, we tend to heap invective on personal injury lawyers. We don’t like to generalize but we think an inordinate amount of legal doginess emanates out of PI firms. You cant really blame us when in little over 18 months the following things have happened:
- Brydens Compensation Lawyers was labelled “woeful” by the NSW Court of Appeal and was forced to foot the bill of three separate court hearings (yes – the FIRM had to pay costs!)
- repeated allegations were levelled at personal injury firm Keddies Lawyers that it overcharged clients and incurred unnecssary costs only to later bill them to a client;
- a male lawyer from Keddies Lawyers was convicted of assaulting a female police officer but not before exclaiming “I don’t have to do anything… I’m a solicitor!”;
- allegations were made that the CEO of Brydens Compensation Lawyers was embroiled in the Japanese Car Sale Harassment Debacle; and
- Hollywood has-been Erin Brokovich joined Shine Lawyers in an effort to drum up some publicity for the firm from injured mums and dads unaware that she is not a lawyer.
But today we are having a huge “shake of the sauce bottle” and congratulating national personal injury firm Slater & Gordon for helping produce Australia’s first female PM!
Yes, Rusty-crutched Gillard was once a partner at Slater & Gordon, refining her people skills on clients looking for a “no-win, no-fee” deal. In fact, the “no win no fee” deal was introduced at Slaters one year before Gillard’s departure, in her Victorian office.
No Win – No Fee ™ lawyers Slater & Gordon believe that every Australian has the right to legal representation no matter what their financial circumstances.
Slater & Gordon’s innovative No Win – No Fee ™ arrangement is designed with exactly that purpose in mind. Introduced to Victorians in 1994, No Win – No Fee™ was created in direct response to growing community concern that access to legal justice was beyond the reach of many and increasingly restricted to those with the financial resources to pay for it.
No Win – No Fee ™ has meant that many Australians whose financial situation would otherwise deny them legal representation are now able to access the legal system.
Gillard received her law degree from Melbourne University and was a lawyer at Slater & Gordon from 1987 to 1995. In 1990, Gillard was admitted as one of Slater’s first female partners.
Congratulations to Julia and to Slaters.
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For those besotted by her gorgeous flame mop (we are!), it turns out that Gillard’s de facto Tim Mathieson is a hairdresser
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