Specialist family law firm Watts McCray has marked 40 years in practice, a milestone one of its directors described as a tribute to “the people who have shaped this firm” over the decades.
Disappointed with the outcome of its disciplinary application, the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia turned to the Supreme Court seeking stronger findings against a solicitor who misled Legal Aid.
East coast-based firm McCullough Robertson is celebrating 100 years in operation.
Mid-tier firm Hicksons | Hunt & Hunt and Holman Webb Lawyers have elevated four to senior associate and six to associate.
A Sydney-based criminal barrister has been charged with possessing child abuse material, with police alleging he possessed images of child pornography and engaged in “very disturbing” conversations involving minors.
Australia’s current debate about hate speech feels both urgent and strangely familiar. Urgent because violence motivated by hatred has again spilled into public space. Familiar because, for many of us, hatred was never something abstract, theoretical, or confined to the internet, writes Andrew Boe.
The federal government has passed sweeping hate crime reforms in response to the Bondi Beach terror attack, but legal experts have raised concerns about the scope, precision, and constitutional implications of the new offences.
The principal solicitor of a boutique Queensland firm was publicly reprimanded for making unfounded allegations about his client’s ex-husband, despite a tribunal accepting that he had a “real reason” to be concerned about a potential breach of court orders.
In 2026, for the first time, Australian law schools will graduate students whose entire degrees were undertaken in the shadow of ChatGPT. It is difficult to overstate the significance, writes Professor Catherine Renshaw.
Starting in March, Commonwealth agencies must brief women counsel wherever possible to meet higher diversity and inclusion targets – but whether the agencies decide to disclose this compliance remains to be seen.
