Harvey goes prime time with first TV ad campaign

First Suits, now Netflix. Can mass-market ads sell legal tech?

Jones Day lands five partners in one swoop

The US firm has now hired 18 lateral partners since launching its Aussie growth push

Cass-Gottlieb set for another five years as ACCC chair

ACCC chair tapped for a second term from 2027, with states and territories yet to sign off

INSIGHTS

How law firm leaders are thinking about pricing in the AI era

New data shows 55% of lawyers expect billing to change. But it's still fingers-in-the-air across the industry.

Top-tiers reveal their 2027 grad intake

Clayton Utz and Corrs cut hardest, while Mallesons is the only firm going up

Inside Harvey II: legal AI that remembers how you work

Point Blank sits down with Harvey's Chief Product Officer at the Harvey Forum Sydney to unpack Memory, Spaces and what Harvey II actually changes for lawyers

Sep 29, 2026

🚨 Rival firms unite

Also, Mallesons reps Northern Star and settlement frees G+T and Allens

Sep 24, 2026

🚨 Lawyer’s camera fail

Also, Mallesons calls ASIC and Minters exec sues

Sep 23, 2026

🚨 Ashurst’s billing experiment

Also, KPMG's government test and Legora raises again?

Sep 22, 2026

🚨 Law’s most powerful

Also, TikTok kiss costs partner and King & Wood lands in Singapore

Sep 21, 2026

🚨 Partners won’t retire

Also, OpenAI crashes legal AI and KPMG loses $11.6m

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INTERVIEWS

Beside a Las Vegas pool, Gadens' CEO found his next law firm

Gadens CEO Mark Pistilli on the pitch that brought him to Gadens, competing with Corrs and G+T, and building the next 'leading independent Australian law firm'

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

What lawyers get wrong about AI

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

MOVES

Jones Day lands five partners in one swoop

The US firm has now hired 18 lateral partners since launching its Aussie growth push

Cass-Gottlieb set for another five years as ACCC chair

ACCC chair tapped for a second term from 2027, with states and territories yet to sign off

Ashurst Perkins Coie nabs Freehills funds star

Ben Plotnik joins as partner in Melbourne, deepening the firm's funds capability

Mallesons poaches Big Four indirect tax gun

EY's Sarah Shaw joins to lead Mallesons' indirect tax practice

FIRMS

Rival firms unite to get regional students into law

School visits, scholarships and mentoring aim to give rural and regional students a clear path into law

Redundancy season is here. Minters and Clayton Utz axe roles first.

Up to 100 roles gone at MinterEllison, 50+ at Clayton Utz. Both say AI isn't to blame

Beside a Las Vegas pool, Gadens' CEO found his next law firm

Gadens CEO Mark Pistilli on the pitch that brought him to Gadens, competing with Corrs and G+T, and building the next 'leading independent Australian law firm'

Sparke Helmore builds its own AI company

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

DEALS

HSF Kramer, G+T advise on $3.3bn cross-border radiopharma deal

Telix snaps up the world's largest lutetium-177 supplier as demand for nuclear medicine grows

Allens, HSF Kramer steer Brookfield's fourth-time-lucky $4.1bn Reliance deal

Three rejections and three months of due diligence later, the scheme deed is signed

Mallesons and Allens act on NEXTDC's $1.1bn convertibles raise

The data centre operator goes back to market, this time raising $1.1bn in convertible notes

Allens and Mallesons steer $4bn Victorian land registry deal

Macquarie finally gets its stake in SERV, eight years after losing out to Aware Super

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 goes prime time with first TV ad campaign

First Suits, now Netflix. Can mass-market ads sell legal tech?

Squire Patton Boggs joins the Harvey club

SPB rolls Harvey out worldwide and scores a seat at the design table

OpenAI takes on legal with Astra for Law

The ChatGPT maker joins Google and Anthropic in the race to win over law firms

Salesforce bets on Legora for global legal ops

Salesforce has spent years talking up its in-house legal tech builds. Now it's buying in.

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Harvey goes prime time with first TV ad campaign

Jones Day lands five partners in one swoop

Cass-Gottlieb set for another five years as ACCC chair

INSIGHTS

How law firm leaders are thinking about pricing in the AI era

Top-tiers reveal their 2027 grad intake

Inside Harvey II: legal AI that remembers how you work

NEWSLETTER

🚨 Rival firms unite

🚨 Lawyer’s camera fail

🚨 Ashurst’s billing experiment

🚨 Law’s most powerful

🚨 Partners won’t retire

JOBS

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Corporate M&A, Top-Tier

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Intellectual Property

INTERVIEWS

Beside a Las Vegas pool, Gadens' CEO found his next law firm

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

What lawyers get wrong about AI

MOVES

Jones Day lands five partners in one swoop

Cass-Gottlieb set for another five years as ACCC chair

Ashurst Perkins Coie nabs Freehills funds star

Mallesons poaches Big Four indirect tax gun

FIRMS

Rival firms unite to get regional students into law

Redundancy season is here. Minters and Clayton Utz axe roles first.

Beside a Las Vegas pool, Gadens' CEO found his next law firm

Sparke Helmore builds its own AI company

DEALS

HSF Kramer, G+T advise on $3.3bn cross-border radiopharma deal

Allens, HSF Kramer steer Brookfield's fourth-time-lucky $4.1bn Reliance deal

Mallesons and Allens act on NEXTDC's $1.1bn convertibles raise

Allens and Mallesons steer $4bn Victorian land registry deal

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 goes prime time with first TV ad campaign

Squire Patton Boggs joins the Harvey club

OpenAI takes on legal with Astra for Law

Salesforce bets on Legora for global legal ops

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