District Court Judge Troy Sweeney SC has been appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the Court of Appeal.
East coast-based firm Arnold Bloch Leibler has entered an agreement with GenAI provider Harvey, making the firm’s next step in embracing innovation.
UK-based firm Rouse Group has strengthened its presence in the Australian market by forming a strategic partnership with 105-year-old intellectual property firm Wrays.
Last week, the member body for practitioners in the nation’s largest state released a new framework that outlined the soft skills crucial for success in the law profession.
A Sydney criminal lawyer who survived a near-fatal gangland shooting earlier this year has been charged over an alleged violent kidnapping.
Spring is here! This past week, a state’s chief justice advocated for an overhaul of PLT, and more time was granted to a firm and administrators in a high-profile class action. Here is your weekly round-up of the biggest stories for Australia’s legal profession.
In a scathing judgment, the Federal Court sent the underpayment proceedings against Coles and Woolworths back to a case management hearing to determine a number of outstanding legal issues, including a lack of factual foundations to support specific allegations.
A costs decision in Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation proceedings turned on whether he knew the imputations to be true, including his claim of ambiguity towards the murder of an old man and the execution of another man with a prosthetic leg.
A Victorian lawyer has made Australian legal history – for all the wrong reasons – becoming the first practitioner to face professional sanctions for using artificial intelligence in court.
Gilbert + Tobin has expanded its practice with Daniel Moloney (pictured) as a new partner in its disputes and investigations team in Melbourne.
