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A former president of the WA Criminal Lawyers’ Association has been reprimanded and fined $20,000 for his failure to deliver a written opinion over a four-year period.

A junior lawyer’s attempt to secure an insurance payout for a stolen bike has cost him his legal career after he knowingly submitted a dishonest claim.

Commercial law firm Mullins Lawyers has bolstered its business services practice with the appointment of an intellectual property specialist as special counsel.

As artificial intelligence continues to transform the legal sector, law firms are balancing between adopting cutting-edge automation and managing the risks and performance.

Following a 12-month evaluation, BigLaw firm Macpherson Kelley has rolled Harvey out to all eight practice groups.

AI has made a definitive move into daily legal work across APAC, with 94 per cent of legal professionals now utilising different forms of the technology.

While AI can be a useful resource, effective self-representation requires legal knowledge, critical judgement, and an understanding of court procedures that extend well beyond a subscription to an AI platform, writes Madeleine Porter.

Knowledge work platform iManage has launched artificial intelligence capabilities within Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise.

Global content and technology provider Thomson Reuters has launched Thomson, its first proprietary large language model, developed in-house, which it says was trained and is run at a fraction of the cost of comparable frontier models.

A Federal Court justice is keen to put artificial intelligence to the test, encouraging the parties in the McDonald’s class action to harness the technology to sift through an “enormous body” of material.