Refereed Publications

• Legg, "Replacement of the responsible entity of a managed investment scheme by members" (2009) 27 (5) Company and Securities Law Journal 299.
• Legg, "The Extra-territorial Application of US Securities Class Actions" (2009) 83 Australian Law Journal 373.
• Legg, McBride and Clark, "The New South Wales Representative Proceeding: A Class Action Half-Way House" (2008) 12 UWS Law Review 176.
• Legg, "Shareholder Class Actions in Australia - The Perfect Storm?" (2008) 31 (3) UNSW Law Journal 669.
• Legg, "The Opes Prime Litigation: Securities 'Lending' Transfers Legal Title to Securities" (2008) 26 Company and Securities Law Journal 407.
• Legg and Schaffer, "Sons of Gwalia Ltd v Margaretic - Encouraging shareholder claims and the fraud on the market theory" (2007) 35 Australian Business Law Review 390.
• Legg, "The United States Deposition - Time for Adoption in Australian Civil Procedure?" (2007) 31 (1) Melbourne University Law Review 146.
• Legg, "Institutional Investors and Shareholder Class Actions: The Law and Economics of Participation" (2007) 81 Australian Law Journal 478.
• Legg, "Book Review - What is Life Worth? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11" (2007) 18 (1) Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal 61.
• Legg, "Book Review: War Law - International Law and Armed Conflict" (2006) 17 (3) Public Law Review 233.
• Legg, “Auditor Independence and Criminal Liability Under CLERP 9” (2006) 34 (2) Australian Business Law Review 156.
• Legg, “Rasul v Bush – The War on Terrorism and the Right of Detainees to Access American Courts” (2005) 16 (2) Public Law Review 89.
• Legg, “An Auditor’s Obligations to Report to ASIC – Between the Hammer and the Anvil”(2005) 23 Companies and Securities Law Journal 264.
• Legg, “Economic Guidelines for Awarding Exemplary Damages” (2004) 30 (2) Monash University Law Review 303.
• Legg and Stengel, “West Virginia Asbestos Mass Trial: Efficient Innovation or Constitutional Violation?” (2004) 71 (3) Defense Counsel Journal 243.
• Legg, “Verizon Communications, Inc. v. F.C.C. – Telecommunications Access Pricing and Regulator Accountability through Administrative Law and Takings Jurisprudence” (2004) 56 (3) Federal Communications Law Journal 563.
• Legg, “Role of the Judge in the Settlement of Representative Proceedings: Lessons from the United States’ Class Action Experience” (2004) 78 Australian Law Journal 58.
• Legg, “Telecommunications Access Pricing in the United States and Australia – Problems and Responses” (2003) 11 (4) Trade Practices Law Journal 233.
• Legg, “The Causation Conundrum of Mesothelioma” (2003) 11 Tort Law Review 9.
• Legg, “Indigenous Australians and International Law: Racial Discrimination, Genocide and Reparations” (2002) 20 (2) Berkeley Journal of International Law 387.
• Legg, “Patent Law Developments in the United States: US Supreme Court Rules on Doctrine of Equivalents and Prosecution History Estoppel in Festo Corp. v Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co. Ltd” (2002) 13 (3) Australian Intellectual Property Journal 155.
• Legg, “Legal Professional Privilege after Esso – What is a dominant purpose?” (2000) 20 (1) Australian Bar Review 40.
• Legg, “Negligent Acts and Pure Economic Loss in the High Court” (2000) 12 (1) Insurance Law Journal 101.
• Legg, “Concurrent Liability and Contributory Negligence - The High Courts decision in Astley v Austrust Ltd” (1999) 18 (3) Australian Bar Review 262.
• Legg, “Misleading and Deceptive Conduct in Prospectuses” (1996) 14 (1) Companies and Securities Law Journal 47.

Professional and Other Publications

• Legg, "Should we Adopt the US Deposition System?" (2009) 47 (4) Law Society Journal 70.
• Legg, "Ramifications of Australia's largest shareholder class action settlement - Dorajay v Aristocrat Leisure" (2009) 12 (6) Inhouse Counsel 75.
• Legg, "The Global Financial Crisis and Auditor Litigation" (2009) 61 (1) Keeping Good Companies 55.
• Legg and Mavrakis, “Australia's Largest Shareholder Class Action Settles” (2008) 238 Sweet & Maxwell's Company Law Newsletter (UK) 1.
• Legg and Park, "Identity of Regulator's Informers Protected From Disclosure to Class Action Promoters - ASIC v Dawson Nominees" (2008) 11 (10) Inhouse Counsel 118.
• Legg and Travers, "Shareholder Class Actions in Australia: A Primer", Paper presented at The College of Law - Current Issues in Corporations Law, Sydney, 25 June 2008.
• Legg, “Securities lending agreement transfers legal title to securities” (2008) 231 Sweet & Maxwell's Company Law Newsletter (UK) 1.
• Quinn and Legg, "Is that Information Confidential?" (2008) 11 (4) Inhouse Counsel 46.
• Legg, "The Transformation of a Share Price Fall into Litigation - Shareholder Class Actions in Australia", Paper presented at Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference, 3-5 February 2008, Sydney.
• Legg and Jordan, “Statutory Derivative Claims – The Australian Experience” (2007) 217 (19/2007) Palmer’s Company Law Newsletter (UK) 1.
• Legg, McBride and Clark, "The Challenge of Class Actions in the Supreme Court of NSW" (2007) 45 (8) Law Society Journal 56.
• Legg and Yazdani, "Section 31A of the Federal Court Act - Making Summary Judgment More Summary?" (2007) 10 (9) Inhouse Counsel 100.
• McBride, Legg and Clark, "Class Actions in the NSW Supreme Court - O'Sullivan v Challenger" (2007) 10 (8) Inhouse Counsel 84.
• Landsberry, Legg and Mavrakis, "Vines v ASIC: Reliance by Officers on Information Provided by Others" (2007) 10 Butterworths Corporation Law Bulletin 6.
• Legg and El Hassan, "Institutional Investors and Shareholder Class Actions: When to Participate?" (2006) 5 (6) and (7) Financial Services Newsletter 85.
• Gurney and Legg "Shareholder Activism - Consumerism, Class Actions and Litigation Funding" (2006) AMPLA Yearbook 255.
• Clark and Legg, "The Continued Rise of Litigation Funding" (2006) 22 (9) Company Director 34.
• Clark and Legg, "Litigation Funding Allowed by High Court" (2006) 9 (10) Inhouse Counsel 109.
• Legg and El Hassan, "With Power Comes Responsibility - Financial Incentives Will Determine the Role that Institutional Investors Will Play in Shareholder Class Actions" (2006) 20 (38) Money Management 16.
• Legg and Williams, "The High Court Gives Litigation Funding Legitimacy, yet Questions Remain" (2006) 44 (9) Law Society Journal 53.
• Legg and Thomas, "New Discovery Rules in the US for Electronically Stored Information" (2006) 44 (7) Law Society Journal 79.
• Legg, “Solicitors’ Representation Letters and Legal Professional Privilege” (2006) 58 (3) Keeping Good Companies 132.
• Legg and Fai, “Court of Appeal clarifies ‘Reasonable Prospects of Success’” (2005) 43 (7) Law Society Journal 55.
• Legg, “Regulatory Investigations – Dishonesty hardly the best policy” (2005) 21 (1) Company Director 15.
• Legg and Mirzabegian, “Auditor Independence and the Role of the Client” (2005) 57 (2) Keeping Good Companies 76.
• Legg, “Discontinuing a Representative Action – Tuxford v New South Wales” (2004) 1 (10) Civil Procedure News 140.
• Legg, “September 11 Attacks – Not a fit for tort law” National Law Journal, February 2, 2004, 23.
• Legg, “Preparing Witnesses Effectively and Ethically” (2003) 41 (11) Law Society Journal 60.
• Stengel and Legg, “Fear of Cancer After the U.S. Supreme Court’s “Ayers” Decision” New York Law Journal, August 14, 2003, 4.
• Stengel and Legg, “On Punitive Damages, Due Process and Horizontal Federalism” New York Law Journal, May 28, 2003, 4.
• Legg, “Limiting Lawyers' Liability in the Brave New World Wide Web” (2000) 38 (8) Law Society Journal 48.
• Legg, “Remedies for breaches of s.52 - Marks v GIO examined” (1999) 14 (9) Trade Practices Law Bulletin 113.
• Legg, “Race to the Top - The race relations impact of the High Court’s decision in the Hindmarsh Island Bridge case” (1999) 37 (2) Law Society Journal 61.
• Legg and McGrath, “Liability of Accountants: Is fault of the client irrelevant?” (1999) 70 (4) Charter 56.
• Legg, “Access to Services under Part IIIA, Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) - Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd v National Competition Council” (1999) 15 (4) Trade Practices Law Bulletin 50.
• Legg, “The Republic in Plain Words” published on the Law Society of New South Wales web site http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/about/papers/constitutional_issues_taskforce_report/
• Windybank and Legg, “Telstra v APRA ramifications yet to be appreciated” (1997) 139 Communications Update 14.

Opinion/Editorial Publications

• Legg, "Conflict vests in Gatekeeper's Role" Australian Financial Review, May 1, 2009 p 20.
• Legg and Mavrakis, "Companies need to avoid class actions" Australian Financial Review, September 26, 2008 p 48.
• Legg, Jordan and Clark, "Regulatory inquiry a compass for class action" Australian Financial Review, January 18, 2008 p91.
• Legg and Jordan, "Disclosure needs special care" Australian Financial Review, February 14, 2007 p55.
• Legg and Clark, "Curbs needed on funded litigation" Australian Financial Review, November 29, 2006 p 55.
• Legg, "Advisers can still end up out-of-pocket" Australian Financial Review, July 31, 2006 p 63.

Submissions

• Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Inquiry into Financial Products and Services in Australia (2009), http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/corporations_ctte/fps/submissions/sub180.pdf .
• Attorney-General's Department NSW, ADR Blueprint Discussion Paper (2009).
• Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC), Aspects of market integrity (February 2009), http://www.camac.gov.au/camac/camac.nsf/byHeadline/PDFFinal+Reports+2009/$file/Market_Integrity_Collated_subs_Jun09.pdf
  Published as Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC), Aspects of market integrity – Report (June 2009)

• Corporations and Financial Services Division - The Treasury, Review of Sanctions in Corporate Law (2007)
• Productivity Commission's Public Inquiry into Telecommunications Competition Regulation.
  
  Published as: Productivity Commission, Telecommunications Competition Regulation, Report No. 16 (2001) Commonwealth of Australia.
• Commonwealth Parliament’s Republic Joint Select Committee on the Bills for Australia to become a Republic, on behalf of the Law Society of New South Wales.
  
  Published as: Commonwealth Parliament’s Joint Select Committee on the Republic Referendum, Advisory Report on Constitution Alteration (Establishment of Republic) 1999 and Presidential Nominations Committee Bill 1999 (1999) Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Presentations

• Legg, "Current Issues in Shareholder Class Actions" The College of Law - Corporations Law in Today's Economic Environment, Sydney, 9 June 2009.
• Legg and Cheetham, “In your own words – Witness Preparation and Affidavits”, Clayton Utz Introduction to Litigation Seminar Series, Sydney, 18 March 2009.
• Legg, “Securities Class Actions in Australia”, UNSW International Research Workshop, UNSW, Sydney, 20 February 2009.
• Legg (Chair), Lee, Walker and Mann, "Lessons From the Aristocrat Class Action", Clayton Utz Securities Regulation and Shareholder Class Actions in a Volatile Market Conference, Sydney, 24 November 2008.
• Legg, "Shareholder Class Actions: Corporate Australia's Friend or Foe" The College of Law - Current Issues in Corporations Law, Sydney, 25 June 2008.
• Legg, "Ethical and Effective Witness Preparation" The College of Law - Effective Preparation for Litigation, Sydney, 21 May 2008.
• Legg, "Shareholder Class Actions", Securities Markets Law - UTS Law School, Sydney, 1 May 2008.
• Legg, "The Last Resort - The Growth of Class Actions", Riskmetrics Corporate Governance Conference, Melbourne, 28 April 2008.
• Legg, "The Transformation of a Share Price Fall into Litigation - Shareholder Class Actions in Australia", Paper presented at Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference, 3-5 February 2008, Sydney.
• Lindgren J (Chair), Bathurst QC, Walker SC, Slade, Rose and Legg, "Litigation Funding" Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, 13 August 2007.
• Legg, Jordan, Landy and Dennings, "Continuous Disclosure: The New Source of Securities Class Actions" Clayton Utz, Sydney, 18 July 2007.
• Legg, "Fund Participation as Class Action Plaintiffs in Australia" Investment Company Institute (USA), Teleconference between Sydney and United States, 31 May 2007.
• Legg, "Institutional Investors and Class Actions" Investment and Financial Services Association, Sydney, 10 May 2007.
• Legg, "Auditors and Compliance - Legal Requirements" The College of Law - The Practicalities of Running a Business, Sydney, 22 February 2007.
• Legg, "An Overview of Securities Class Actions: Conflagration, Flash in the Pan or Bonfire of the Vanities?" Clayton Utz/UTS Faculty of Law Securities Class Actions Conference, Sydney, 21 November 2006.
• Gurney and Legg "Shareholder Activism - Consumerism, Class Actions and Litigation Funding" AMPLA Conference, Melbourne, 20 October 2006.
• Legg, "Auditor Independence: Legal Requirements and Practical Compliance" UNSW Seminar - Corporate Regulation and Directors Duties, Sydney, 26 July 2005.
• Legg, "Legal Professional Privilege after Esso v Commissioner of Taxation" The College of Law - A Day in the Supreme Court, Sydney, 30 June 2000.
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Citation of Articles / Media Quotes

• Alexandra Cain, "Class of 2008", Insto, Oct/Nov 2008 at 76 (reporting on sub-prime/credit crunch litigation).
• Elisabeth Sexton, "Game with no rules, so Aristocrat cut losses", The Sydney Morning Herald, 6-7 September 2008 at 41 and 44 (reporting on the Aristocrat class action settlement).
• Patrick Durkin, "Directors may get legal shield", Australian Financial Review, 29 April 2008 at 3 (reporting on Riskmetrics Corporate Governance Conference and factors leading to perfect storm for shareholder class actions).
• "Institutional Investors and Shareholder Class Actions: The Law and Economics of Participation" (2007) 81 Australian Law Journal 478 cited with approval in Jameson v Professional Investment Services Pty Ltd [2007] NSWSC 1437 (Young CJ in Eq, Supreme Court of New South Wales)
• Bruce Andrews, “Called to account”, Business Review Weekly, (1-7 March 2007) at 69 (reporting on shareholder class actions and fraud on the market theory).
• Joshua Lipton, "Funding - Contingency Plans", Litigation 2006 - Supplement to The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel (November 2006) at 18 (reporting on the advent of litigation funding in Australia).
• “Role of the Judge in the Settlement of Representative Proceedings: Lessons from the United States’ Class Action Experience” (2004) 78 Australian Law Journal 58, cited with approval in Courtney v Medtel Pty Ltd (No 5) (2004) 212 ALR 311 (Sackville J, Federal Court of Australia).