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A roundtable will bring together representatives from courts and tribunals across the country, including the Federal Court and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA), to discuss how artificial intelligence might be able to ease a judge’s workload.

Following Victorian Premier Ben Carroll’s confirmation that the Equal Opportunity Amendment (Work from Home) Bill 2026 will be debated and passed through the state’s upper house within the week, the industry group has sought legal advice as part of a campaign to have the legislation withdrawn from Parliament.

The Australian legal profession has spent considerable time examining what artificial intelligence means for productivity, service delivery, and the economics of legal work. I think this question deserves equal attention: what happens when the work AI performs increasingly well is also the work we have traditionally relied upon to train junior lawyers? writes Jamie Ng.

An analysis of lateral moves reported by Lawyers Weekly over the past 12 months has revealed which firms have been doing the poaching, which have been losing talent – and just how much damage one big team raid can do.

The Australian Financial Review raised legitimate questions about the NSW senior counsel appointment process, but it should not have come at the expense of the barristers it has claimed to help.

Building a law firm from the ground up is difficult enough. Doing it while raising young children brings an entirely different set of pressures – and, for two boutique firm founders, some important lessons about ambition, guilt, flexibility, and asking for help.

Technology has long promised to make the workforce more efficient. But, for lawyers, such efficiency doesn’t necessarily mean getting to leave the officer earlier – a problem that is almost entirely of the profession’s own making, writes Jerome Doraisamy.

Phi Finney McDonald is investigating a potential investor class action against Corporate Travel Management and its former auditor, PwC Australia.

In an AI-mediated market, the real divide could be between the firms AI can understand and those it overlooks, writes Ralph Grayden.

A practitioner known for her deep technical expertise and reputation in the indirect tax market has joined Mallesons.