Clayton Utz hires NRF's top environment lawyer

Rebecca Hoare swaps 23 years at NRF for partnership at Clayton Utz

Allens, Mallesons act as Alphabet smashes Australian bond records

Google's parent draws $18bn in demand for its $5.5bn Kangaroo bond debut

Mills Oakley's growth run continues, this time with a 15-lawyer raid

Moray & Agnew insurance team, including three partners, joins to launch the firm's Newcastle office

INSIGHTS

Why BigLaw wants the best grads earlier than ever

US firms are racing to lock down the best students before their first grades even land, as AI reshapes who's worth hiring early. Will Australia head the same way?

Where senior lawyers want to work in 2026

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Aug 26, 2026

🚨 BDO partner backlash

Also, NSW's new judge and workers turn to AI

Aug 25, 2026

🚨 Lawyers pick pay cuts

Also, KPMG axes jobs and AI case backfires

Aug 24, 2026

🚨 BigLaw hiring panic

Also, Mills Oakley opens new office and court disqualifies judge

Aug 21, 2026

🚨 Harvey's power move

Also, Ashurst lawyer struck off and KPMG axes 450 jobs

Aug 20, 2026

🚨 BigLaw cashes in

Also, K&L Gates bleeds and $51m in-house lawyer

INTERVIEWS

The lawyer who became an AFL club's first-ever in-house counsel

Emma German on jumping in-house years earlier than most, and how she built a legal function at the GWS Giants from scratch

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August's founders talk competing with Harvey & Legora, the billable hour, and what law firms are getting wrong about AI

What lawyers get wrong about switching jobs

A recruiters take on jumping ship in the legal industry

MOVES

Clayton Utz hires NRF's top environment lawyer

Rebecca Hoare swaps 23 years at NRF for partnership at Clayton Utz

Litigation silk lands on NSW Supreme Court bench

Richard Scruby SC swaps the Bar for the judiciary, bringing 24 years' commercial experience with him

Mills Oakley's growth run continues, this time with a 15-lawyer raid

Moray & Agnew insurance team, including three partners, joins to launch the firm's Newcastle office

WA's top courts get a triple boost

Three judges were appointed to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court

FIRMS

Sparke Helmore builds its own AI company

Trivity, a joint venture with Adaca, targets government and regulated clients

Ashurst Perkins Coie just unlocked a new ownership model

Ashurst Perkins Coie has adopted the ABS model, opening the door to private equity and non-lawyer ownership. The firm insists that's not the plan.

HSF Kramer beats its own targets in first year since merger

Post merger, the global firm hits US$2.4bn in revenue, while PEP still trails Magic Circle rivals

Clifford Chance smashes revenue records as US bet pays off

Revenue, profit and PEP all up, and the US expansion shows no signs of stopping

DEALS

Allens, Mallesons act as Alphabet smashes Australian bond records

Google's parent draws $18bn in demand for its $5.5bn Kangaroo bond debut

Corrs, Baker McKenzie steer OceanaGold's $776m Ausgold swoop

OceanaGold's first Australian play targets the Katanning gold project

I Squared wins the fight for oOh!Media in $1.04bn deal

Mallesons and White & Case steer the outdoor advertiser's sale after a four-way bidding war

The lawyers behind the biggest Aussie deal announced this year

Mallesons, Allens and Corrs land roles on record $36bn Blackstone-HSBC deal

DISPUTES

Dentons scores defamation win for Rebel Wilson

Federal Court sides with Rebel Wilson over The Deb co-star's defamation claims

The ACCC went after Coles and won. Here's what happened.

The ACCC wins its blockbuster supermarket pricing case. Woolworths is next in line.

ASIC strikes out: Federal Court throws out every claim against Nuix

Justice Goodman dismisses every allegation brought by the regulator, from misleading conduct to continuous disclosure.

Rinehart royalties ruling: the lawyers' payday that never ends

Australia's longest-running billionaire brawl hands rival mining heirs a royalty win, but the real victors are the barristers pocketing $250,000 a day

TECH

Harvey and Thomson Reuters ditch the middleman and build their own models

Harvey's Tenet and Thomson Reuters' Thomson signal a new phase in the legal AI race

Claude just got a watermark. Here's why lawyers should care.

Anthropic's move to mark AI-generated text forces law firms to be transparent about their AI use

Sparke Helmore builds its own AI company

Trivity, a joint venture with Adaca, targets government and regulated clients

This EY tax adviser was sick of bad research tools. So he built his own.

Andrew Wierda's Nylon is Blackbird-backed, and now counts 600 Australian firms as clients

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Mills Oakley's growth run continues, this time with a 15-lawyer raid

INSIGHTS

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MOVES

Clayton Utz hires NRF's top environment lawyer

Litigation silk lands on NSW Supreme Court bench

Mills Oakley's growth run continues, this time with a 15-lawyer raid

WA's top courts get a triple boost

FIRMS

Sparke Helmore builds its own AI company

Ashurst Perkins Coie just unlocked a new ownership model

HSF Kramer beats its own targets in first year since merger

Clifford Chance smashes revenue records as US bet pays off

DEALS

Allens, Mallesons act as Alphabet smashes Australian bond records

Corrs, Baker McKenzie steer OceanaGold's $776m Ausgold swoop

I Squared wins the fight for oOh!Media in $1.04bn deal

The lawyers behind the biggest Aussie deal announced this year

DISPUTES

Dentons scores defamation win for Rebel Wilson

The ACCC went after Coles and won. Here's what happened.

ASIC strikes out: Federal Court throws out every claim against Nuix

Rinehart royalties ruling: the lawyers' payday that never ends

TECH

Harvey and Thomson Reuters ditch the middleman and build their own models

Claude just got a watermark. Here's why lawyers should care.

Sparke Helmore builds its own AI company

This EY tax adviser was sick of bad research tools. So he built his own.

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