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Mainstream adoption of artificial intelligence in the legal community is right around the corner, and experts have urged law firm partners to take control and rise to the challenge rather than letting junior lawyers determine when and how the technology is utilised.
The New South Wales government has been hit with a class action alleging it discriminated against Indigenous communities on the south coast by prosecuting them for engaging in cultural fishing practices.
Mehreen Faruqi can include evidence of senator Pauline Hanson’s allegedly "hateful" comments on race and ethnicity in a trial over the One Nation leader’s tweet saying the deputy Greens leader should “piss off back to Pakistan".
Law firm Pinsent Masons has lured two partners from KPMG Law to head a team of six lawyers for its new technology, media and telecommunications team in Australia.
The ACT government has argued the Federal Court cannot hear a class action brought on behalf of public housing tenants who were allegedly forced to relocate.
The law firm behind a class action against Insurance Australia Group has secured a group costs order that will give it 30 per cent of any proceeds -- a contingency fee rate six percentage points higher than the median rate for shareholder cases.
More companies may find themselves in the position of Medibank -- which recently failed to stay representative proceedings before the privacy regulator while a related class action is on foot -- so long as the laws remain unchanged, and law firms are willing to gamble on privacy class actions.
Appealing findings of serious corrupt conduct over her award of state funds to the district of then boyfriend and member of parliament Daryl Maguire, former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has told a court politicians can have "personal attachments" while still acting in the public interest.
The DPP's complaint to Victoria's judicial watchdog that prompted the shock resignation of Supreme Court Justice Lex Lasry was an abuse of process, experts say, and the judge's decision to step down was a "deeply saddening end to a stellar judicial career". But the Office of Public Prosecutions has strongly rejected the claim.
The head of the Australian Taxation Office has flagged cybersecurity as one of his greatest concerns amid millions of attempted cyberattacks on the tax office, saying the prospect of a data breach “keeps me awake at night”.