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The Law Council of Australia has called on all levels of government to properly evaluate and resource the downstream impacts on the justice system resulting from new legislative, policy, and program initiatives.

Velocity Legal has strengthened its family law offering with the appointment of an accredited family law specialist with more than a decade of exclusive practice in the area.

This week is Brain Injury Awareness Week, and the theme for this year is “Brain injury: many pathways, one community”. For many people returning to work after sustaining a TBI, careful planning is essential to ensure their return is neither premature nor unsafe for them or those that they work alongside, writes Nickelle Morris.

As dumping videos go viral on social media, a principal lawyer has warned that throwing out an ex-partner’s belongings can carry serious legal consequences, with emotional distress offering no defence and the conduct potentially amounting to illegal dumping or domestic violence.

Lawyers are putting flexibility ahead of money, with more than six in 10 saying they would sacrifice part of their salary for the chance to work fully remotely, according to new research.

To protect the public and uphold the reputation of the profession, a tribunal has recommended that a Queensland family lawyer be removed from the roll, finding that lesser penalties for his historic misconduct have not had their “intended effect”.

Lawyers were among the professionals targeted as part of AUSTRAC’s investigation into coordinated mortgage fraud that is potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Australia and New Zealand businesses are increasingly reliant on overseas AI infrastructure, raising concerns about supplier concentration, cyber risks, and resilience as AI adoption accelerates, DLA Piper research has found.

An “industry-first” benchmark report from NetDocuments has revealed that giving AI structured context about legal matters could cut the cost of generating accurate answers by almost half.

Global technology provider Thomson Reuters and AI-native work intelligence platform Laurel are joining forces to help law firms answer a question that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: Is their technology actually delivering a return?