Sydney’s legal elite traded courtroom advocacy for operatic arias last Friday night, proving that theatrical ambition runs deep within the New South Wales bar. The Banco court of the NSW Supreme Court was converted into a stage for the Bench and Bar Choir’s latest production, a localized, patriotic adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic maritime […]
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Founder of Citron Research Found Guilty of Scheming to Manipulate Stock Market via Media Campaigns LOS ANGELES – Stock analyst and frequent guest on business television news channels was found guilty by a jury today for using his public platform to illicitly profit by manipulating stock market activity and trading opposite to the position he presented
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The death of the billable hour is something we have talked about and reported for – what seems – years. But now, according to a recently viewed billboard in San Francisco, the end is indeed here for the age-old billable hour. But it is also a clever ‘seizing the moment’ move by an AI law
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Franks File Speaks Frankly of Dimwits and Nonsense John Bowie There is, somewhere in Wellington, a Law Society Standards Committee whose members presumably rise each morning, gaze into the bathroom mirror, and think: yes — today I shall save the Nation from the menace of correspondence. It is the only plausible explanation for what was
The Supreme Court of New South Wales has handed Sydney boutique Green & Associates Solicitors a fairly blunt message: pay up or watch your case quietly expire. The firm is suing its former executive assistant in what might be the most gloriously overstuffed employment dispute of the year. Among the allegations? Not just financial misconduct
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AI Music Ruled Public Domain In a landmark April 2026 ruling sending ripples through the exploding AI-music industry, a U.S. federal court held that tracks generated primarily by artificial intelligence cannot claim copyright protection—even when heavily prompted and curated by humans. The court insisted on “substantial human authorship” for IP rights, declaring machine-made music belongs
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London High Court orders full assessment of WilmerHale invoices after judge flags “charges so high as to raise concern”
A Brazilian billionaire is pushing back on a jaw-dropping $35 million legal bill from BigLaw heavyweight WilmerHale and one eye-popping detail has caught the court’s attention: a partner who logged more than 19 hours in a single day.
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Following last week’s dismissal of Pam Bondi after just 14 months as Attorney General, the Wall Street Journal posed a pointed question: is there a worse job in Washington than serving as Trump’s top lawyer? The answer, for lawyers watching the revolving door at the Justice Department, appears to be no. The inherent tension is
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We all get the same 24 hours in a day. Well, most of us do. One creative Sydney solicitor apparently operated on a different calendar. Keith Redenbach, principal of Redenbach Legal (pictured) and a veteran who once graced the corridors of Norton Rose Fulbright and Maddox, has been found by the NSW Supreme Court to
While most aspiring City solicitors are sweating over their trainee apps from a hot-desk in a co-working space, Benito Mottoh decided to do it the old-school (and slightly mad) way: lacing up and running between the five Magic Circle giants. Coffee first, then 8km of suited-and-booted pavement-pounding from Clifford Chance in Canary Wharf to A&O
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