Nobody has their slides ready a week before! 🫠

A senior lawyer jailed for taking over $2 million during an elaborate misappropriation scheme has been removed from the roll. bit.ly/3z2pTto

A disgraced barrister tossed out of the profession because of his misconduct in the Banksia class action has failed to appeal findings that he thwarted the administration of justice for financial gain. bit.ly/3RsnVc8

Practicing law in Montana is wild. Client 1: "Our main home is in Bel Air, and we've done the Vail and Telluride ski-home thing, and love our places there, but we want to be here full time now because it's so much more authentic." Client 2: "We're short on cash, but we can give

Chief Justice Kourakis, has received correspondence from the SA Bar Association (“the Association”) requesting that he retract public comments relating to legislation to abolish the title of King’s Counsel. courts.sa.gov.au/2024/06/25/sta…

I was an ableist asshole when I first became a teacher. Because that’s what I was taught! In my defense, academic institutions told me a strict attendance policy was required. What changed my perspective & my assessment criteria? Disabled students 🧵

"And we will call the documents filed with our appellate courts: Briefs.” "So, these documents will contain concise arguments outlining the parties’ respective positions?” "If only it were so simple.”

A brief background to AustLII. AustLII provides a comprehensive integrated collection of Australian legal information, enabling effective free and anonymous access to law for the community. It contains over 1,000 databases of full-text primary and secondary legal materials. It:

Dominique Pelicot found guilty. The panel of five judges have convicted Dominique Pelicot of aggravated rape of Gisèle Pelicot. He was also convicted of making and distributing pictures and images of Gisèle Pelicot. Dominique Pelicot has also been found guilty of making and

So excited to incorporate AI into the classroom and liberate my students from boring tasks like reading and thinking

1/2 Oh boy. A Sydney solicitor was investigated for writing discourteous communications on behalf of his mother in law and communicating directly with her opponent instead of its solicitor. He did not deal with the investigation well.

Professors wear every hat. Who gets burned? Most professors signed up for autonomy. To think. To teach. To write. To finally do meaningful work on your own terms. But here’s what we actually do: • 59% of our time goes to teaching • 23% to service • 18% to research

A third-year submitted a memo analyzing a highly complex ERISA issue yesterday afternoon. I noticed a particularly bold assertion in the second paragraph and checked the footnote. He had cited a blog post from a defunct regional accounting firm. I summoned him and asked if he

The concept of "Casual Friday" was invented by HR to identify flight risks. A first-year showed up last week wearing a fleece vest with a tech startup's logo on it. It was a gift from his brother. I didn't yell or ask him to change. I just introduced him to every client that

Let's discuss the tragedy of the firm-sponsored dinner stipend. An associate ordered a thirty-dollar artisanal salad while working late on a Tuesday. He expensed it under the billing code for a bankrupt retail client. I called him in and asked him to justify the heirloom

Reviewing timesheets at the end of the month is a masterclass in creative writing. A first-year billed twelve hours to strategic contemplation regarding an M&A timeline. I called her into my office and asked her to define contemplation. She said she was thinking deeply about

There is a strict hierarchy of office supplies that nobody writes down but everyone should know. A summer associate handed me a printed term sheet held together by a colored paperclip. It was neon green. I stared at the document like it was leaking radiation. I asked him if

Stanford just tested whether LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters’ AI legal research tools are really “hallucination-free,” as they claim. Spoiler: not even close. Here’s what the study found.