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A national firm that claimed to be Australia’s highest-ranking legal service was wound up amid potential allegations of illegal phoenix activity, insolvent trading, and a failure to act in good faith.

As the legal profession continues to embrace hybrid work and online learning, junior lawyers are missing out on vital opportunities to develop essential skills and build professional confidence – a problem that should concern the entire profession.

Global legal technology company Relativity has elevated its chief product officer to president to accelerate its AI strategy, strengthen its legal data intelligence platform and lead its next phase of innovation.

I use AI as an adversary. I feed it my strongest documents and ask it to tear them apart, because the best way to test the strength of an argument is to attack it. And almost every time, the AI does not find the weak points; it manufactures them. It produces a critique that looks like rigour but, when pressed, turns out to be a performance of rigour. This is a problem with how these tools are built, and for non-experts, it is a genuine hazard, writes Yule Guttenbeil.

A recent report from Major, Lindsey & Africa unpacks the trends shaping how law department leaders are viewing their roles, the makeup of their teams, the use of new technologies, and the extent to which legal services panels will be relied upon.

What was once viewed as a productivity tool has become a critical lifeline for many legal teams, with a new Legora report revealing that more than eight in 10 departments now consider AI essential to their daily work.

After nearly getting scammed while selling her own car privately, this general-counsel-turned-legal-tech founder decided to do something about it.

A recommendation was made to remove a Queensland lawyer from the roll over her “incomprehensible and contemptible” attempt to have her client charged with a criminal offence amid a dispute over unpaid fees.

“The future of law is going to look vastly different, and in-house teams have the privilege of drawing the blueprint for what that looks like,” one GC has said.

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