Naomi Neilson

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Naomi Neilson is a senior journalist with a focus on court reporting for Lawyers Weekly, as well as other titles under the Momentum Media umbrella. She regularly writes about matters before the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Courts, the Civil and Administrative Tribunals, and the Fair Work Commission. Naomi has also published investigative pieces about the legal profession, including sexual harassment and bullying, wage disputes, and staff exoduses. You can email Naomi at: [email protected].

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Disciplinary referral for lawyer caught using AI

A Queensland solicitor ignored requests from a senior judge to explain the fake case citation in her client’s written material.

SME LAW • Tue, 10 Mar 2026

Struck-off lawyer claims admission board denied him procedural fairness

A former solicitor whose name was scrubbed from the roll in late 2015 for “lazy” disclosure failures about his criminal history has spent the better part of the last ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 09 Mar 2026

The case against Star’s chief legal officer and the ‘alarming’ money laundering evidence

While damning findings were made about Star’s most senior lawyer and her role in investigating a Chinese money laundering syndicate, a senior judge rejected a regulator’s ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 09 Mar 2026

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Veteran solicitor struck off over supervision blunders

Due to delegation and practice management failures, a Queensland solicitor with an otherwise unblemished three-decade career had his name scrubbed from the roll of legal ...

SME LAW • Sun, 08 Mar 2026

Women leaders gain ground at half of BigLaw firms

Just over half of Australia’s largest law firms have increased the number of women in leadership roles in the 12 months since the last Workplace Gender Equality Agency ...

BIG LAW • Thu, 05 Mar 2026

Barrister calls out performative sisterhood

Intense bullying from the profession’s “mean girls” has upended a barrister’s once-idealistic belief in sisterhood.

BIG LAW • Thu, 05 Mar 2026

LawConnect acquires lawyer marketplace Finchly

Legal artificial intelligence platform LawConnect has acquired Finchly to accelerate its development of a unified, global legal services marketplace and offer further ...

BIG LAW • Wed, 04 Mar 2026

LHD Lawyers acquires 120-year-old firm Taylor & Scott Lawyers

LHD Lawyers has strengthened its workers’ compensation, personal injury, and industrial law capability with the acquisition of Taylor & Scott Lawyers, a firm with ...

SME LAW • Wed, 04 Mar 2026

Senior lawyers must answer for their own mistakes, court says

A Supreme Court judge emphatically rejected any suggestion that junior lawyers should shoulder the blame for the mistakes of their superiors.

BIG LAW • Tue, 03 Mar 2026

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