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The return of larger deals was a defining feature of the past year in private dealmaking, with billion-dollar transactions making up a growing share of overall activity, according to a new report from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer.

While the profession’s growing adoption of AI is undoubtedly reshaping the graduate legal job market, one paralegal is urging law students not to panic, stressing that a changing profession does not necessarily mean a shrinking one.

With headlines warning that AI is coming for junior lawyers becoming impossible to escape, one law student is pushing back against the panic, calling the narrative “fear-mongering” and arguing that the threat to entry-level legal jobs is not quite what it seems.

We are past the point of turning a blind eye to the fact that too many law students don’t attend classes regularly, writes Professor Luke Beck.

High Court Justices have clashed over whether a senior barrister was conflicted when he represented two drug traffickers.

Senior lawyers with Allens and Ashurst were forced to defend their legal work and obligations when one senator with the KPMG inquiry suggested they “give up investigations” and another questioned whether their reports could be accepted as credible in future.

Less than a year after being admitted as a solicitor, a junior lawyer has been struck off after deliberately asking a colleague to hide a client file to prevent her firm from discovering she had failed to complete the work.

Legal services firms are increasingly balancing high-volume core services, such as property and commercial law, with specialised capabilities, including employment, disputes and restructuring, to capture more complex client needs across the business and wealth life cycle, according to a NAB report.

Western Australia’s judiciary is set to welcome three new appointments across the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.

Just three weeks into her career as a lawyer, a Melbourne woman has been fired following a controversial TikTok.