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Companies will continue to face climate-related litigation -- including claims over greenwashing, breaches of directors duties and challenges to projects -- despite the recent failure of a climate class action.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has been given the go-ahead to amend her discrimination suit against former senator Brian Burston, but is blocked from relying on transcript evidence from his defamation case.

Class action filings are set to reach a historic high by the end of 2025 thanks to 19 almost identical class actions brought by junior doctors, according to a new report. Interestingly, shareholder claims are on the rebound.

Baker McKenzie has poached a banking and finance partner from Norton Rose Fulbright.

The Victorian Bar has hit back at media reporting around the management of commercial litigation by Australian courts which singled out judges of the Supreme Court, saying “statistics never tell the whole story”.

Dentons has poached an employment law expert and her team of three from Deloitte Legal to grow its Melbourne office.

Under proposed reforms to NSW tenancy laws, businesses that publish misleading photographs of rental penalties will face penalties of up to $22,000 and face new requirements for securing renters' personal data.

Jones Day has lured a real estate expert from Clayton Utz to join its Brisbane office as a partner.

In a first, the federal government has filed proceedings against a foreign investor and its former associate for alleged non-compliance with orders to divest their interests in rare minerals miner Northern Minerals.

Thomson Geer has snagged two workplace relations partners and their 15-person team from Holding Redlich for its Brisbane office.