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Fresh reports coming out of The Piddington Society’s graduate program have confirmed more than 5,000 hours of legal advice have been delivered to community legal centres this year.

Brisbane-based firm Mullins last week launched its first function for those in the pub, hotel, accommodation and club industries.

In its 19th year, the Australian Law Awards continues to be the pinnacle awards event for Australia’s legal profession. In yet another outstanding evening, the awards witnessed the absolute brilliance of the legal profession at the bar and in firms and companies of all sizes.

National firm Mills Oakley has hired new partners for its projects, energy and resources and property teams respectively.

The legal and conveyancing industry is becoming more digitised by the second, and it’s no surprise the more digitised the sector becomes, the higher the risks of cyber crime-related activity.

Unless law firms can implement practical initiatives to up-end workplace culture and structures, women will not be able to fully participate and thrive in the legal profession, argues one advocacy group.

King & Wood Mallesons has successfully defended its client, the producer of Stolichnaya vodka, in what’s being described as a long-running Russian vodka trademark case concerning operations in the Australian market.

New workplace manslaughter laws introduced in Victoria will see organisations and its senior officers held responsible for workplace deaths.

Clifford Chance has launched the pilot phase of its new robotics training programme in the hopes it will help ensure juniors are equipped with a commercial understanding of how legal documents can be automated.

The federal government’s approach to family law will see it advocate again for a “bad law” to be passed by parliament, which it failed to pass in the last term, argues the Law Council president.