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No longer a novelty, generative AI misuse has become a fixture of Australian courtrooms and the legal disciplinary investigations that follow. Some might suggest exercising greater care with legal research, but ChatGPT has a simpler fix: it will take the blame.

With senior lawyers on the move like never before, Lawyers Weekly explores the firms capturing the attention of top legal talent and the factors that are making them stand out as destinations of choice for the profession’s leaders.

On its current growth trajectory, Keypoint Law could well become the biggest Australian law firm by partner-level lawyers. Here, its CEO explains why market conditions are so favourable for the firm’s disruptive model.

By upholding the use of a secret recording of a man admitting to raping his wife, the High Court has cemented the realities of domestic violence into legal precedent. For family lawyers, this decision could reshape their advice and support of victim-survivors.

A newly established law firm has failed to silence a principal solicitor who publicly alleged its business model was illegal.

By using artificial intelligence to turn his favourite poem into lyrics in the style of Taylor Swift and Nick Cave, Chief Justice Peter Quinlan identified that the missing qualia – the raw experience of conscious experiences – could be what turns law into something “inhuman”.

The firm was “not considered” to have been in breach of its code of conduct and values in legal documents that reveal the firm was advised that it would not be required to take any further action with respect to the whistleblower’s allegations.

To expand its deep bench of senior advisers, Baker McKenzie has named Kieran Egan as special counsel within the firm’s Australian tax practice.

National law firm Barry Nilsson has appointed a principal and her team to join the firm’s workers’ compensation and compulsory third-party practice in Perth.

The scandal-plagued accounting firm has seen another two top officials depart days before the next scheduled public hearing into allegations of misconduct and whistleblower mismanagement.