In early 2023, Australia-based private equity firm Allegro Funds implemented an off-market bid to acquire Slater & Gordon, and completed the acquisition in April 2023, after which it ceased trading.

His endeavour was successful and he was eventually hired as an office boy, later being employed as a clerk for Percy Park, a Mildura solicitor.

[6] Two men escaped the crash to become POWs; the remaining five, including Gordon, are buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Gelderland, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Other cases include representing victims of medically acquired HIV from contaminated blood supplies, and women suffering health problems due to faulty IUDs and breast implants.

In December 2005, the firm negotiated a settlement with James Hardie worth $4.5 billion on behalf of unions and people suffering from asbestosis, mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases as a result of exposure to asbestos while working for the company.

In 2017 the Supreme Court of Victoria approved a $70 million settlement in the landmark Manus Regional Processing Centre detainee class action run by Slater & Gordon.

The action is believed to be the largest human rights class action settlement in Australian legal history and was brought on behalf of 1,923 detainees who were held at the Manus Regional Processing Centre between November 2012 and May 2016[7] Slater & Gordon entered the UK market in 2012 with the acquisition of UK law firm Russell Jones and Walker.

The acquisitions have included: Fentons, Goodmans Law, Taylor Vinters, John Pickering and Partners, Pannone[9] and most recently, Leo Abse & Cohen and Walker Smith Way.

Britain's Serious Fraud Office has launched an investigation into Quindell and Slater & Gordon commenced legal action against the vendor over the sale.

Former KPMG Australian National Managing Partner (Advisory), John Somerville, was appointed CEO in February 2018.