In today's episode of At Close of Business, journalists Jordan Murray and Mark Beyer discuss growth and competition in the legal sector over the past year, as well as the establishment of new firms.

Making headlines, an Esperance director jailed over a fatal workplace accident, the state government introduces a new bill to protect subcontractors in the wake of Pindan's collapse and Perth-based Maxima and Tasmanian company Ornatas trial a new way of farming tropical rock lobster in the state's north.