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For many overseas qualified lawyers, relocating to Australia represents both opportunity and reset. While requalification pathways are well documented, the more subtle challenge lies in rebuilding credibility, adapting to professional norms, and learning how to reframe international experience in a new legal ecosystem, writes Sumitha Krishnan.

Mining giant Fortescue has been ordered to pay Yindjibarndi native title holders a record $150 million for cultural loss and an approximate additional $100,000 for economic loss following the destruction of 124 spiritually significant heritage sites, displacement of artifacts from another 116, and damage to sacred songlines and laws.

Consilio’s Aurora Legal AI and Anthropic’s Claude have been combined to reduce data silos and provide greater flexibility.

As in-house legal teams take on responsibilities far beyond traditional legal advice, pressure is intensifying as their roles continue to stretch well beyond conventional boundaries.

Independent firm Lander & Rogers has promoted 45 lawyers to the roles of partner, special counsel, and senior associate.

A Queensland solicitor will face a strike-off application for stinging clients along with lies while their case sat dormant for two years.

Global law firm K&L Gates has established a new global AI and innovation partner role, placing its AI strategy under the leadership of a practising partner as the firm pushes ahead with the rollout of agentic AI across the business.

Generative AI is quickly becoming part of everyday legal practice. Its ability to analyse, summarise, and generate content at speed is undeniably valuable. But the real risk is not whether these tools can assist lawyers – it is whether their use quietly undermines one of the profession’s most fundamental protections: legal professional privilege, writes Catie Moore and Lauren Separovich.

For the first time in Australia’s history, a climate change case has reached the nation’s highest court – a landmark moment that could reshape how coal and fossil fuel projects are assessed, approved, and challenged across the country for years to come.

The Victorian government has appointed four new judges to the County Court of Victoria, marking a significant expansion of the court’s judicial bench.