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A judge has made orders for kitchenware company Bodum to pay rival Maxwell & Williams' costs in a design dispute over stylish coffee glasses, despite Bodum's impending appeal.

Piper Alderman has lured a corporate partner from Lander & Rogers to join its Melbourne office.

MinterEllison faces an unfair dismissal lawsuit by its former Sydney-based chief clients and markets officer, whose job involved positioning the law firm's adoption of AI.

A company incorporated to manage a development in regional Victoria has lost its bid to withdraw admissions in a case by property developer Villawood alleging a former director engaged in a fraudulent scheme to divert management fees.

MinterEllison and Clayton Utz have confirmed cuts to the number of business operations jobs at the firms but deny the increasing adoption of AI tools was a factor.

Property developer Villawood has argued that a company incorporated to manage a project in regional Victoria can't withdraw admissions over an alleged fraudulent scheme by a former director to divert management fees. 

The Queensland Land Court has recommended the approval of Bowen Basin Coal's Meadowbrook project to extend its Lake Vermont open cut coal mine near Dysart, over objections from environmental activists.

Qube has accused Martinus Rail of behaving like a “delinquent debtor” as it seeks to restrain the logistics company from enforcing a $26 million judgment in a dispute over Sydney’s $4 billion Moorebank Intermodal Terminal.

Australian Super has agreed to pay a $30 million fine in ASIC proceedings over delays in processing almost 7,000 death benefit claims, but a judge has said he does not have enough information to approve the deal. 

The High Court has found that Orica shotfirers working at black coal mines are entitled to portable long service leave, overturning a Full Federal Court ruling that found they were not eligible under the coal industry scheme.