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AI tools are reshaping graduate training at Australia’s top law firms, transforming how young lawyers learn, develop practical skills, and prepare for the profession’s future.

While artificial intelligence has seen widespread adoption across the legal sector, studies have found that this uptake into genuine transformation continues to pose a major hurdle.

If firms are going to use one-way interviews, I think they should at least use them to test something relevant to legal practice, writes David Minahan.

A lawyer who faced potentially being struck off for altering shares without authority was saved by the murky context of his misconduct, including the exposure of “marital secrets”, extortion, and $1,000,000 allegedly at stake.

A Parramatta firm has won more than $40,000 from a costs dispute with a former client who alleged it unnecessarily duplicated its fees.

An experienced employment and workplace relations partner has joined Hall & Wilcox’s Canberra office, further strengthening the firm’s national employment and Commonwealth government practices.

A client is sitting across the desk crying. Perhaps they have just described years of domestic violence. Perhaps he has lost a case that consumed half a decade. Perhaps a witness is about to walk into court and recount the worst experience of their life, or a defendant has finally understood what is at stake. What do you do? writes Rebecca Ward, MBA.

A landmark privacy class action has alleged that the Department of Veterans’ Affairs unlawfully disclosed the sensitive information of about 300,000 veterans.

A boutique law firm has relaunched its brand under a new name, marking a new chapter for the Australia-based practice.

A former HWL Ebsworth client who failed to make out a claim he was induced into signing a costs agreement has had his appeal thrown out, including allegations that the magistrate “coached” the BigLaw firm’s counsel and applied an “unequal double standard”.