Opinion

Permission to treat the witness as hostile?

This is for every practitioner who’s ever paid for peace and been invoiced for drama instead, writes Rebecca Ward,...

24 December 2025

By Rebecca Ward, MBA

Retail trademark wars: The year of epic fails and lessons learnt for 2026

The year 2025 was a masterclass in what happens when brand ambition outruns trademark discipline, writes Aparna Watal.

23 December 2025

By Naomi Neilson

Private equity and Australian law firms in 2025

This year, external capital entered the strategic vocabulary of Australian lawyers, writes Kim Wiegand.

22 December 2025

By Kim Wiegand

Why Australian businesses should embrace arbitration in a globalised economy

In the face of an evolving landscape, arbitration must be adopted by Australian businesses as the presumptive mechanism...

19 December 2025

By Nastasja Suhadolnik

What we’ve learnt this year, and what it could mean for lawyers in 2026

The year 2025 has, undoubtedly, been a year of change – marked not just by how much has shifted in the last 12...

17 December 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Lawyer’s conduct in $10m iPhone will case largely ignored on appeal

In the initial decision of Colin Peek’s “informal will”, the NSW Supreme Court found his lawyer had a clear...

17 December 2025

By Matthew Burgess

What 2026 really looks like for legal AI

The hype is getting old, or at least is becoming exhausting. First, widespread experimentation. Then the crisis. Then...

16 December 2025

By Ryan Zahrai

Die Hard, moral permission, and the architecture of heroism

At first glance, Die Hard seems little more than a seasonal spectacle and cinematic bravado. Yet beneath the glass and...

12 December 2025

By Rebecca Ward, MBA

Closing the AI adoption gap: Australia needs the skills to match the technology

The question isn’t whether AI will transform legal practice – it already is. The question is whether Australian...

10 December 2025

By Clementine Fox

B Corp law firms: an oxymoron?

Why be a B Corp? It’s something Marque Lawyers has been for over a decade, and in truth, we always were purpose-led,...

05 December 2025

By Michael Bradley