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Boutique forensic accounting and expert witness practice.

Jurisdiction: National

Discipline

Forensic accounting and expert witness

Alternative legal services provider supplying on-demand lawyers, legal support professionals and secondments for Australian in-house teams. Engagements can be full-time, part-time, remote or on-site, across corporate, regulatory, technology, employment and other legal work. It also offers AI-enabled legal services; clients' legal teams supervise the work.

Jurisdiction: National

Discipline

Contract and secondment lawyers

Litigation funder with teams in Australia and the UK, financing commercial disputes, arbitration and class actions. It offers full or partial legal-fee funding, disbursement funding and case-development finance for law firms, businesses and insolvency practitioners. It is a founding member of the Association of Litigation Funders of Australia.

Jurisdiction: National

Discipline

Litigation funding

BOQ's solicitors trust account, sold as an industry-specialist account.

Jurisdiction: National

Discipline

Bank — statutory trust account

Cloud practice management software for Australian barristers and clerks. It brings together matter and diary management, time recording, invoicing, disbursement tracking, bank reconciliation and financial reporting, with tools for managing barristers’ lists.

Jurisdiction: National

Firm size fit

Sole practitioner

Deployment

Cloud

Commercial platform for finding and briefing Australian counsel.

Jurisdiction: National

Discipline

Counsel briefing platform

Mid-tier accounting firm with a forensic services division producing expert reports and investigations.

Jurisdiction: National

Discipline

Forensic accounting and investigations

Bendigo Bank's regulated trust accounts, including a dedicated solicitors trust account.

Jurisdiction: National

Discipline

Bank — statutory trust account

Peer-nomination based recognition. Anyone may nominate, including self-nomination; currently recognised lawyers then provide peer review feedback, and eligibility is verified with the relevant bar or admitting body. Listing itself carries no fee.

Jurisdiction: National

Type of source

Recognition list — peer nomination, self-nomination permitted, no listing fee

Typical cycle

Annual

Legal accounting and practice-management software for Australian and international law firms. BHL Insight supports accounting, document management, document assembly and connected workflows through local-server and hybrid options. BHL Cloud and SpeediDocs extend access, matter administration and Microsoft Office document workflows.

Jurisdiction: National

• Trust accounting
• Software
• Sole practitioner

Legal costs consultancy with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. Services include costs assessments, preparation of bills and objections, negotiation, mediation, taxation representation and expert reports for security-for-costs applications, gross-sum costs and class actions.

Jurisdiction: National

Discipline

Legal costs consultancy

Brief and matter management for counsel.

Jurisdiction: National

Firm size fit

Sole practitioner

Society of Construction Law Australia podcast exploring issues in the Australian construction industry; legal and industry professionals; active.

Jurisdiction: National

Type of publication

Podcast

Paywalled

No

Specialist legal recruiter servicing Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Darwin and Cairns, across private practice from junior to partner level, in-house, government, contract and graduate roles.

Jurisdiction: National

Discipline

Legal recruitment — private practice, In house, Government, Contract, Graduate

States serviced

VIC, NSW, QLD, SA, ACT, NT

Subscription library of practical legal guides, matter plans, forms and precedents for Australian practice. Publications combine procedural commentary with documents organised around the stages of a matter and are maintained for legislative and procedural changes.

Jurisdiction: National

Type of publication

Practical legal guides and precedents.

Frequency

Updated as relevant law, practice and procedure change.

Paywalled

Subscription access.

Australian practice management and trust accounting system.

Jurisdiction: National

Deployment

Cloud

Commercial litigation funder and member of the Association of Litigation Funders of Australia.

Jurisdiction: National

Discipline

Litigation funding

Annual conference (Monash University) on human rights law; practitioner and academic presenter program.

Jurisdiction: National

Type of body

Learned society or research centre

University-based centre with published technology-for-justice research and initiatives in access to justice.

Jurisdiction: National

Type of body

University research centre

Submission and interview based rankings. Firms complete a submission template covering department information, individual nominations, recent work highlights and referee contacts; researchers then interview referees.

Jurisdiction: National

Type of source

Rankings directory — submission and interview based

Typical cycle

Annual