While many argue that artificial intelligence is reshaping what it means to be a successful lawyer, David Fischl contends that the core skills themselves remain the same. It is how lawyers apply and adapt those skills in an AI-driven landscape that has truly changed.
Law firms are being challenged to move beyond the traditional “cookie-cutter” hiring model, as professionals from non-traditional backgrounds emerge as a powerful competitive advantage in modern legal practice – an evolution underscored by Naomi Shivaraman’s unconventional path into law.
Chalk & Behrendt has partnered with the University of Newcastle to launch a $30,000 scholarship aimed at supporting the next generation of First Nations lawyers.
In addition to his failure to appear in court on behalf of the immigration minister or secure a substitute, the solicitor on record left an employed solicitor to answer to a senior judge alone.
A former lawyer, struck off for smuggling contraband into prison for a Christchurch killer she later married, is mounting a determined bid to return to legal practice despite a string of failed appeals.
BigLaw firm McCabes has poached three principals and their respective teams from national rival Colin Biggers & Paisley.
AI is yet to eat this lawyer’s lunch, writes James d’Apice.
A CEO from an Australian community legal centre has sounded the alarm over the federal government’s commitment to tackling domestic and family violence, warning that chronic underfunding is forcing hundreds of victim-survivors to be turned away each day.
A relatively junior lawyer siphoned more than $25,000 from his employer with a string of false reimbursement claims.
An NSW bishop has been appointed to a senior legal role in the Vatican.
