Tom Burton

Nov 7, 2024 | steptoe-johnson.com | Thomas Burton |Tom Burton

Related Attorney: Thomas W. Burton Published: November 7, 2024 DALLAS- Tom Burton recently joined Steptoe & Johnson PLLC’s Business Department as Of Counsel at the firm’s Dallas office. Burton has more than 25 years of experience in corporate, real estate, and transactional work. “We’re excited to have Tom join our firm,” says Christopher L. Slaughter, CEO of Steptoe & Johnson.

Nov 7, 2024 | agilitypr.news | Tom Burton

DALLAS, TX / AGILITYPR.NEWS / November 07, 2024 / DALLAS- Tom Burton recently joined Steptoe & Johnson PLLC’s Business Department as Of Counsel at the firm’s Dallas office. Burton has more than 25 years of experience in corporate, real estate, and transactional work. “We’re excited to have Tom join our firm,” says Christopher L. Slaughter, CEO of Steptoe & Johnson. “He is actually rejoining a group of his former partners and colleagues who include our COO and several lawyers in our DFW offices.

Oct 31, 2024 | linkedin.com | Tom Burton

My post below linked to Substack which has mysteriously removed the link. Here is what I wrote for my final edition of the Inside Government newsletter for the Australian Financial Review. Reflections on Australian government The first is the need for ministers to take a much stronger interest in, and better understand, how government delivery and public administration really work.

Oct 29, 2024 | afr.com | Tom Burton

National Anti-Corruption Commissioner Justice Paul Brereton has been found to have engaged in misconduct when he involved himself in proceedings that rejected further investigation into the senior public servant in the robo-debt scandal, who was an army reserve colleague. The embarrassing finding came after the NACC’s independent inspector Gail Furness found Mr Brereton should have excluded himself completely from the decision not to investigate referrals from the robo-debt royal commission.

Oct 28, 2024 | afr.com | Tom Burton

Australia will spend $252 million on a US-style Centre for Disease Control to try to overcome gaps between levels of governments and their agencies, which allowed misinformation and fuelled public distrust of health measures to contain COVID-19. But the new centre would not have the power to direct states or overrule state and territory chief health officers if a crisis of the pandemic’s magnitude were repeated, federal Health Minister Mark Butler said. Loading...