Two years on from his failed bid to join the legal profession, a disgraced migration agent made yet another unsuccessful attempt to be admitted.
NSW’s local judicial officers will have their titles upgraded from magistrate to judge under new legislation.
For over half a century, the Calderbank offer has served the canny lawyer as a critical strategic tool in civil litigation, and is particularly useful in complex and high-stakes disputes such as those in the construction industry, writes Nick Collier.
BigLaw firm Clayton Utz has partnered with AI tool Harvey for firm-wide use.
BigLaw firm Piper Alderman has welcomed Marisa Orr to its partnership, who joined its national corporate team in Perth last Monday (8 September).
Responses from a one-question survey conducted last month revealed that lawyers had concerns about technology, AI, external pressures, regulation, and the culture of the law profession.
After 15 years of continuous practice, Mel Storey came to a realisation many lawyers reach only after it’s too late: the career she loved had been quietly wearing her down.
A Queensland law lecturer who was caught with dozens of explicit images of victims he secretly filmed, including an underage girl, has accepted a recommendation that he be struck from the roll.
A major class action that alleged AMP’s superannuation members were overcharged due to failures of the trustees to maintain fees has settled for $120 million, pending court approval.
Later this week – and in recognition of one decade since the publication of the Redress and Civil Litigation Report by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse – a Sydney-based conference will reflect on improving access to justice for survivors, and what has been achieved in the last 10 years.
