The appointment tails three lateral partner arrivals, a partner promotion and the addition of two special counsel in insurance, and, according to the BigLaw firm, underlines projected growth in insurance.
For many in-house lawyers, the daily grind can feel relentless, leaving little time to make an impact beyond the office. But one legal counsel emphasises that you don’t need a perfect plan to create real change – the most important step is simply to begin.
The Reserve Bank of Australia was widely tipped to increase the cash rate at its March 2026 meeting. Find out here, in this special announcement from Legal Home Loans, whether the cash rate has been hiked, held, or lowered.
A senior judge has warned lawyers against descending into “aggressive and confrontational” cross-examination, particularly when it may undermine fair opportunity and reliable evidence.
Lawyers Weekly and principal partner Lawyers on Demand and Consilio are thrilled to announce the finalists for the eighth annual Corporate Counsel Awards.
In recent weeks, collaborative AI platform Legora has both raised US$550 million at a US$5.55 billion valuation in a Series D funding round to accelerate its expansion and seen global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer adopt it as its firmwide general-purpose AI platform.
A bold prediction by Mustafa Suleyman that legal work could be fully automated within 18 months has sent ripples through the legal profession, with many legal leaders at the forefront of this technological shift insisting that the reality will be quite the opposite.
A partner who specialises in arbitration and commercial litigation has been appointed to Dentons’ dispute resolution practice.
The right to protest is a hallmark of a healthy democracy. The events surrounding the Palestine Action Group’s planned February 2026 march reveal a system in which executive and police power have expanded in ways that have significantly narrowed the practical space for democratic dissent, writes Sam Lee.
Legal tech provider Mary Technology has received $7 million in funding to scale its infrastructure and take its solution for tackling litigation “fact chaos” into the United States.
