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The idea that insurance law needs to be “geopolitics-aware” is not new, but the flow-on consequences of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz mean that such thinking “no longer sits at the margins”.

Amid high inflation, another interest rate hike, and a Middle East conflict that shows no signs of abating, legal practitioners nationwide will be wondering whether their elevated standing to purchase property still holds.

A routine feature of global legal practice is about to become far more complex, as incoming AML reforms force law firms facilitating international payments to tighten controls and rethink how transactions are managed.

A Townsville firm was given a notice to produce documents relating to an investigation into its alleged claim farming, including material that could potentially link it to a deregistered law firm.

A barrister who was jailed and suspended from practising law after causing the death of a pensioner in a dangerous driving incident has been granted permission to return to legal practice.

The Australian Lawyers Alliance has urged the federal government to take the “commonsense approach” to compensation rights rather than bowing to pressure from the insurance industry.

Australia is again confronting a question that sits uncomfortably at the intersection of military conduct and legal accountability, writes Tony F Taouk.

Global law firm Clifford Chance has expanded its partnership ranks with the promotion of 28 lawyers to partner, two of whom are based in Australia.

A new report from Lawyers On Demand finds that lawyers from Generation Z are going to change the legal profession, if the leaders of today “have the courage and vision” to allow them to do so.

In-house lawyers are redefining the top business priorities they have set for themselves to guide both their teams and the businesses they support through a pivotal year.