Steve

Principal Consultant and Director of Alliance Legal Services.Over 25 years experience with the public service in Australia and in the Pacific region holding a number of senior Government positions including Director of Victorian Fisheries, Director General of NSW Fisheries, Deputy Director General of the Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency, and Chief Executive of the NSW Maritime Authority. I have been consulting since 2011 and have worked on a range of projects involving the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Office of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, NSW Transport, NSW DPI, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, DPI Victoria, the NSW Game Council, the PNG National Fisheries Authority, the Snowy Mountains Trout Farm, and Archipelago Marine Research (Victoria, British Columbia).

Small law firms

small law firmsSmall law firms are the best! If you follow the legal press (Who doesn’t? Or let’s be really honest) you can’t help but notice a few themes.

  1. The biggest firm in Australia now has 219 partners. So there’s growth in the traditional sector despite all the so-called business disruption from technology solutions.
  2. Mergers are painful. At the end of series 2 (from memory) of Suits there are a couple of episodes where there is a merger, describing all the pain of making efficiencies that just about seems to get it right in a bizarrely drama-driven way. The reality reported in the media appears no less dramatic.
  3. Small firms can be unstable. Here in Canberra, it’s like a bloody chess board the way people firm-hop.

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