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Event date: Thursday, 14 August 2025
Venue: The Star, Sydney
Welcome reception: 8:00am
Official event start: 9:00am
Dress: Business casual
Introducing a new era in legal leadership
With the legal profession undergoing profound transformation – driven by technological advancements, geopolitical uncertainty, and shifting client demands – the need for considered, profession-wide dialogue has never been more pronounced.
Launching in 2025, the Australian Law Forum is set to become the definitive meeting place for our nation’s legal community.
This landmark event brings together the entire legal profession under one roof. It's a unique platform for engaging with your clients, reconnecting with your peers, and creating new relationships across the entire sector. And with three dedicated streams for BigLaw and boutique firms, in-house teams and counsel, and sole practitioners of all stripes, our agenda promises to drive highly-tailored insights on your most urgent challenges, whether that's navigating regulatory upheaval, wrestling with the complexities of AI in legal practice, or responding to new client expectations.
Join us at the inaugural Australian Law Forum, where the nation’s legal profession will come together to lead, learn, and transform.
Event date: Thursday, 14 August 2025
Venue: The Star, Sydney
Welcome reception: 7:00pm AEST
Official event start: 7:30pm
Dress: Black tie
The Australian Law Awards are back for 2025 and are once again bringing you an unparalleled awards program identifying professionals and firms across the nation.
With 25 years of recognition, the awards program continues to celebrate those who work tirelessly to make the legal industry thrive. From managing partners and general counsel to barristers, legal scholars and rising stars, the Australian Law Awards is the pinnacle event for recognising talent in the Australian legal industry.
Get ready to celebrate in style at an awards night designed for the stars. We are more excited than ever to celebrate those propelling the industry forward.
The Partner of the Year Awards returned in 2025, once again delivering an unparalleled awards program that identified the legal partners, or partner equivalents, across individual practice areas within the Australian legal profession.
The awards were regarded as one of the legal profession’s most prestigious accolades, highlighting professional development and innovation, and showcasing the individuals who led the way in the industry.
Recognising specialists from corporate and criminal to family, mergers and acquisitions, and more, the program provided an opportunity to be acknowledged as one of the leading partners in Australia.
Attendees celebrated in style at an awards night designed for the stars. It was a momentous occasion to honour those who propelled the industry forward.
The awards were open to all individuals operating in Australia who supported the business of law.
The Partner of the Year Awards will return in 2026. Register your interest to be the first to know when submissions open.
2026 dates to be announced
Against a backdrop of tired legal events, the inaugural Partner Summit made waves as an incisive national forum dedicated to addressing the specific concerns of law firm partners. With an agenda developed in deep consultation with advisory partners, the summit exposed senior attendees to the latest thinking and best practices emerging from the heights of legal leadership.
In the face of looming volatility in global markets and politics, the summit challenged law firm partners to think beyond traditional understandings of management and practical expertise. Attendees heard how partners could protect themselves, their firms, and their clients by improving cyber security posture and professionalising approaches to financial and succession planning. It also pulled at the thread of AI to better understand how this revolutionary technology threatened established firm practices by upending client expectations, redefining team management, and challenging underlying business models.
The summit served as the ultimate platform for vocational growth, connected like-minded colleagues, and exposed them to divergent perspectives. Attending this summit was an investment in the future success and sustainability of each firm, propelling participants towards success at a time of increased competition for top talent and clientele alike.
The Partner Summit will return in 2026. Register your interest to be the first to know when tickets go on sale.
2026 dates to be announced
The benchmark awards program for excellence in the corporate counsel sector returned
The Corporate Counsel Awards returned in 2025, once again delivering an unparalleled awards program that recognised the excellence of top-performing in-house legal professionals at a national level.
Year after year, the awards program had recognised those influencing the profession and propelling the industry forward.
Nominees took the first step toward national recognition and built a reputation for excellence. The awards were open to all eligible professionals and businesses operating across Australia.
The 2025 black-tie gala event brought together leaders from across the country to celebrate the achievements of the industry’s most successful in-house counsel.
Many seized the opportunity to win this coveted award and enjoy the benefits of a prestigious accolade.
The Corporate Counsel Awards will return in 2026. Register your interest to be the first to know when submissions open.
2026 dates to be announced
Held in May 2025, the Corporate Counsel Summit elevated the nation’s in-house community to new heights.
Australian businesses had been relying heavily on their in-house teams to respond to regulatory and technological interventions in the marketplace. With the nation’s peak regulatory bodies demonstrating interventionist intent and emerging technologies threatening long-standing operating models, the role of general counsel had never been so varied and valuable.
In its seventh year, the pre-eminent leadership forum for Australia’s in-house professionals brought together over 250 in-house counsel to hear from the nation’s leading legal minds.
Attendees explored an agenda curated in close consultation with industry leaders, equipping them with the latest tools and strategies emerging from the sector.
The Corporate Counsel Summit will return in 2026. Register your interest to be the first to know when tickets go on sale.
For over a decade, the Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards has brought the legal industry an unparalleled awards program that identifies the finest young lawyers across the nation.
Achieving 30 Under 30 status offered finalists and winners the foundation for career progression, with industry-wide recognition for professional competency, all while highlighting a passion for the law and a great dedication to personal advancement.
The 30 Under 30 Awards will return in 2026. Register your interest today to be the first to know when submissions open.
Friday, 15 November 2024 • Hyatt Regency, Sydney • Welcome reception: 6:30pm AEDT • Official start: 7:00pm • Black tie
Recognising the women leading the charge in the financial services sector
This national awards program was designed to recognise and acknowledge the leading women influencing the Australian finance industry.
This is the benchmark for excellence around Australia, and year after year recognises the outstanding contributions made to the profession and those propelling the industry forward.
This year, we will once again celebrate the best of the best over a range of categories, from entrepreneurs and CEOs to those working in accounting, banking, finance, and many more.
Take the first step to being recognised at a national level and build a reputation for excellence. The awards are open to all female professionals and businesses operating across Australia.
Keen to be involved in 2025? Register your interest now and be the first to know when submissions open.
2025 dates to be announced
Lawyers Weekly’s annual Women in Law Forum returned for its third instalment in November 2024.
We once again delivered another exceptional event, designed to both honour the women reshaping the legal landscape and pave the way for a more inclusive and equitable future for those coming through the ranks.
Meaningful progress has been achieved, in recent years, towards equity in Australia’s legal profession, However, the recent unveiling of gender pay gap data in big corporates across the country, and the escalating rates of fatal male violence against women, are reminders of just how far we have to go in our workplaces and our justice system.
The Women in Law Forum offered a space in which to be inspired by distinguished legal professionals, fierce advocates and passionate activists, as they delved into the unresolved inequities that still linger in professional services and beyond.
Join us at the Women in Law Forum 2025. Register your interest today and be the first to know when tickets go on sale.
2025 dates to be announced
Recognising the women leading the charge in the business of law
Our biggest event recognising the influence of exceptional women across the Australian legal industry returned for 2024 – the Women in Law Awards.
This prestigious national awards program presented an exceptional opportunity for leading women to showcase their achievements, attract more clients and propel their careers, on top of giving them the recognition they deserve.
This year, we once again celebrated the best of the best in the business of law and continues to highlight the women working within the industry, including executives, barristers, academics, pro bono lawyers, students and many more.
Keen to get involved in 2025? Register your interest today to be the first to know when submissions open.