Once a cornerstone of legal business development, the traditional “long lunch” has largely faded from “an alcohol-inflected business development tool”, but it has now been reshaped for a new era in line with modern expectations, one firm principal has said.
Having operated independently for a combined 24 years, Mitry Lawyers and Emerson Lewis Lawyers have joined forces in a merger aimed at addressing the “practical realities” and growth limits of single-principal firms.
A solicitor blamed a “partnership split” for the 10 months of radio silence that saw her client hit with an indemnity costs order.
A newly proposed bill will make it more difficult to return land to Aboriginal Australians, according to the Law Society of NSW and the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.
Serving the Australian legal system for nearly half a century, a former senior judge of the Supreme Court of NSW has been welcomed as the incoming Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board chairman.
A string of high-profile cases involving lawyers misusing artificial intelligence has sent ripples of concern through the profession. But according to one legal expert, the takeaway isn’t to steer clear of the technology – it’s to learn how to use it correctly.
As the legal profession continues to undergo rapid and unprecedented shifts, four partners from a global law firm have identified the key forces set to drive dealmaking and reshape the industry in the year ahead.
Justice Dina Yehia, Justice Louise Taylor, and Magistrate Rose Falla – each the driving force behind solution-focused courts in NSW, ACT, and Victoria, respectively – have spoken out against statistical evaluations.
The US–Israel attack on Iran and the subsequent regional and geopolitical conflict that has ensued have disrupted approximately 20 per cent of the global supply of oil and gas, thereby significantly increasing prices for energy, production, transport, and household expenses. Now, with increased chatter about WFH being recommended as a fuel-saving measure, legal employers may – for the second time this decade – see their workers undertake duties from home.
The mid-market in legal services is being compressed from above by premium firms protecting complexity, and from below by scale-first firms finally having the technology to deliver volume work cheaply enough to win. Here, we unpack the structural forces driving such change and how firms can and must respond.
