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From DJ booths and live gigs to representing some of Australia’s biggest music stars, Julian Hewitt and Rob Glass reveal the unlikely journeys that took them to the top of entertainment law.

UK technology-enabled law firm Stowe Family Law has announced the completed acquisition of a fellow family law firm.

A struck-off ACT lawyer has been ordered to pay more than $200,000 in legal costs after an unsuccessful bid to challenge the Law Society’s costs orders arising from his appeal and disciplinary proceedings.

A Manchester man has been sentenced for impersonating a Cheshire Police officer to obtain CCTV footage of a woman he knew at a chicken restaurant.

Adelaide tax law firm Cartland Law has announced a series of key appointments, headlined by the promotion of its first-ever partner.

Federal Court proceedings filed by Guy Sebastian against his former manager have now settled, with the latter taking “full responsibility” for allowing the dispute to drag on for nearly a decade.

The reforms we need are already law. Nobody enforces them, writes Dr John Cronin.

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.