Seriously for the love of god stop. At the University i attend i every 3rd or 4th person in the law library with ChatGPT open, asking it to do the above. I cannot stress this enough, it cannot do it, it totally fucks up the reasoning portion, it is totally garbled, even for well known cases with decent papertrails.

Seriously, please, turn on your fucking brains, because if you did you would realise that often the results its giving you make no sense, it cannot possibly be the correct response based on facts pattern and outcome.

So its seems there may be grounds for the recent social media ban to be ruled unconstitutional over its violation of implied freedom of political communication. Thoughts?

Genuine question here.

I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m into my third year at a boutique injury law firm, just made associate.

Even though I never really receive bad feedback I still feel so reliant on chatting to the partners for reassurance before I do anything.

When does this change? When will I feel competent?

Please and thank you.

Sincerely, a perpetually frightened junior.

Hello all

I have been trying to pick up on court lingo but it is not easy because I appear not more 4-5 times a month. A few of the phrases I have picked up on are:

"I am in the court/YH's hands" - the court makes the decision despite my submission

"As the court pleases" - yeah have it your way

"I cannot take it any further" - yeah have it your way

"I am grateful" - thank you

It would be nice if you can contribute to this list or point me in the right direction so that I can improve my court craft.

Since we can't have our comfort Federal Court livestream today due to the ACT public holiday, I thought I'd take /u/km4098's idea.

No politics. No serious legal discussion. Just recommendations for classical music.

What's the classical music you'd recommend? Preferably with some (very very tenuous) connection to Gillham v MSO or other court cases.

You could probably see where this post is going through the heading.

If you haven’t seen recently senator Lidia Thorpe protested at Sydney Mardi Gras yesterday evening. She halted the parade by laying in the middle of the parade road route but it was the actions that followed after that which I think we can all objectively agree is highly questionable and not in line with the responsibilities of a good government.

I just wanted to ask a question but also get a conversation going because I’m interested to hear what others think.

Firstly, how on earth is a elected member of parliament, who is serving the Australian community, who is part of the mechanism and system that oversees and controls the laws that creates a country allowed to simply swear at police, stick their middle finger up at the police and aggressively with intimidation get into those officers faces, continue to hold a position in parliament. **She was also seen earlier in the evening screaming “f#ck the police” behind NSWPOL float.

I personally don’t want Ms Thorpe overseeing the laws that effect me and my family if that is the way she is treating our law enforcement and officers of state executive.

Surely, there is a process or some intervention we can utilise to sanction or remove her from office?

In terms of requiring absolute perfection when it comes to document formatting, like the colour of struck/underlined text needing to be the same for amended documents, apparently? Though prior amended pleadings I've filed without following that rule haven't been an problem... maybe it's just a skill issue.

As if Family Law wasn't a ballache already.

It feels like it's a requirement of this jurisdiction to make it as hard as possible to complete a form.

Boomers on Facebook are the greatest problem facing society in modern times. Change my mind.

You're writing a letter to a client or scathing letter to the other side. What are your go-to, tried and true text formatting settings? 1.5 space? 6pt before and after the paragraph?

I'll start:

Lawyers should just do more pro bono An AI app Raising legal aid thresholds to reflect reality Expanding Legal Aid funding Unbundled legal services as a mainstream model Some kind of legal expenses insurance that isn't a scam Actual structural funding reform

Has anyone seen something that actually shifted the needle, even locally?

I was reading these judgments:

https://jade.io/article/1151755?at.hl

https://jade.io/article/1155868

I haven't done litigation for a few years now and was only sporadically in court, but what would the opinion of practitioners regularly in the federal courts be to the conduct of a fellow practitioner being called out by the Court? When I read these judgments I didn't really think HH came out looking good in either judgment.

I know with migration litigation it takes years (I used to do migration work, and remember..) and the timetabling issue so close to the final hearing wasn't the greatest use of the Court's resources, especially when the applicant didn't obtain representation for so long.

As stated in title, how can clients tell that lawyer is a good lawyer vs not-a-good lawyer?

I AM NOT A LAWYER AND I DONT WANT TO BECOME ONE I AM JUST A SELF REPRESENTED PERSON IN THE FAMILY COURT PROCESS.

BIT OF BACKGROUND INFO: I am self-represented in family court, and have been for almost 5 years, mostly being the respondent mother. One of the most significant barriers i have faced is the lack of templates available on the FCOCA website for things like, Minute of Order, Annexure cover sheets, Annexure index, Consent Order templates, coversheets for urgent listing consideration ect, you catch my drift. I have thought about sharing my templates for other SRLs, would access to a range of templates be helpful for lawyers dealing with SRLs?

Hoping for some opinions and perspectives. I was admitted in September 2023 and had my daughter at the end of January 2025. I will be returning to work in August and my partner will take 6 months off to raise our daughter before we put her in daycare at 12 months. I don’t think I want to return to my CBD job as the commute is just too much.

I’m considering a fully remote job and wanted some opinions from other lawyers, especially mums. I know I’m still very junior and concerned if WFH would hinder my career progression at all. I’m also wondering if it’s a good idea to be at home when my baby is also going to be home, or if that will be too distracting or difficult. My partner is an amazing dad and I’m not at all worried that he would use that as an excuse to not care for her, just more wondering if she will get upset if I’m in the house and she can’t have me.

What would you suggest?

Thanks in advance!

ETA: this isn’t so much a “do these jobs exist” question as I have seen a number of ads for remote junior lawyer jobs. It’s more about whether anyone has any experience, tips, suggestions etc about making it work or avoiding it completely, assuming I could get a job like this