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ARTICLE · 27 AUGUST 2007

Professional Practices News: A Briefing On Topical Issues

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In this issue, we look at changing attitudes to outside investment with the listing of Slater & Gordon. We also examine how to protect your firm from the loss of a key partner, and other topical issues.

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Simon Mabey
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The Slater & Gordon story

In this issue, we look at changing attitudes to outside investment with the listing of Slater & Gordon. We also examine how to protect your firm from the loss of a key partner, and other topical issues.

Putting Theory Putting Theory Into Practice: The First Law Firm Flotation

In the last Professional Practices News, we discussed alternatives to traditional partnerships and changing attitudes to outside investment. Giles Murphy looks at how Australian law firm Slater & Gordon is blazing the trail.

Over the years, the partnership structure enshrined in law by the 1890 Partnership Act has served the professions well.

In recent times, however, we have seen traditional businesses with a partnership structure incorporate their organisations as limited companies in order to list their shares on the stock exchange.

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