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New AI Will Replace All Lawyers, Says Founder Who Has No Idea What Lawyers Actually Do
22 April 2026ISSUE NO. 22SAN FRANCISCO — The founder of Nova.AI, a general purpose artificial intelligence platform, has declared that lawyers will be fully replaced by AI within three years. His only direct experience of legal practice was the incorporation of his...
Lawyer Who Ditched Billable Hours Spends Remarkable Amount of Time Talking About It
15 April 2026ISSUE NO. 21Melbourne — A Melbourne lawyer who left a large commercial firm to escape what he described as the profession's "outdated obsession with time" has since spent a significant amount of time explaining this decision. Oliver Grant, founder of...
Firmwide ALL CAPS Email Confirms Ageing Consultant Hit Pub for Lunch
8 April 2026ISSUE NO. 20SYDNEY — A firmwide reply-all email sent mid-afternoon has confirmed that former equity partner turned consultant Michael Reeves, 72, attended the pub for lunch, consumed approximately six glasses of red wine, and then attempted humour in...
LinkedIn Thought Leader Confirmed to Speak Exactly Like His Posts
1 April 2026ISSUE NO. 19Queensland — A reporter attempting to interview a prominent LinkedIn thought leader this week has confirmed that the distinctive tone and structure of his posts appear to be an accurate transcript of how he actually speaks. Mark Delaney, who...
Accounting Tech CEO Explains Why Every LinkedIn AI Discussion Is Really About Their Product
25 March 2026ISSUE NO. 18Melbourne — A Melbourne accounting technology founder has clarified that most discussions about artificial intelligence on LinkedIn are, when examined carefully, actually about his company’s product. Lachlan Reeves, chief executive of...
Lawyer “Humbled and Surprised” to Receive Prestigious Industry Ranking Firm’s Marketing Department Paid For
18 March 2026ISSUE NO. 17PERTH — Commercial lawyer Daniel Whitaker says he is “deeply humbled and genuinely surprised” to have been named one of Australia’s Recommended Lawyers – Commercial Litigation in this year’s Australian Legal Industry Rankings (ALIR), following...
ATO Data-Matching Reveals Handwritten Signs Strongest Predictor of Tax Evasion
11 March 2026ISSUE NO. 16CANBERRA — The Australian Taxation Office has announced a new data-matching initiative after internal analysis revealed that handwritten cardboard signs are the strongest statistical predictor of undeclared income in the Australian economy....
Lecturer Begs Students to Skim Read AI-Generated Assignments Before Submission
4 March 2026ISSUE NO. 15ADELAIDE — An Administrative Law lecturer has appealed to students to “at least skim read” their AI-generated assignments before submission, following what she described as “a semester of entirely avoidable errors.” Dr Eleanor Grant, who...
New Legal AI Platform Revealed to Be One Man’s ChatGPT Login, Raises $42 Million Anyway
25 February 2026ISSUE NO. 14SYDNEY — A newly launched “agentic legal workflow platform” has raised $42 million in seed funding despite quiet industry recognition that the product is, in substance, founder Lachlan Reeves’ personal ChatGPT login with several dropdown...
Sovereign Citizen With Broken Caps Lock Forced to Admit Corporate Personhood
18 February 2026ISSUE NO. 13ADELAIDE — A local sovereign citizen’s long-running campaign against government authority suffered a significant setback this week after his laptop’s caps lock key malfunctioned, leaving him unable to type his legal entity name in full...
HR Team Struggling to Find New Way to Celebrate Fifth Diversity Awareness Event This Month
11 February 2026ISSUE NO. 12NAARM (MELBOURNE) — Staff at Simmons & Pratt are reportedly running out of ideas for yet another mandatory diversity celebration, the fifth such event scheduled this month. All firm communications now open with a full Acknowledgement of...
IT Training Session Derailed When Senior Partner Asks How to Double-Click
4 February 2026ISSUE NO. 11SYDNEY — A scheduled training session on the firm’s upgraded document management system was brought to a slow and painful halt this week after a senior partner, widely regarded as one of the sharpest legal minds in the building, raised a...
Senior Partners Introduce ‘Revolutionary’ Casual Fridays, Staff Forced To Pretend It’s Not Just Jeans
28 January 2026ISSUE NO. 10ADELAIDE — In what’s being described as a “visionary shake-up of workplace culture,” senior partners at mid-tier law firm Hastings, Pike & Associates have announced the launch of Casual Fridays — a bold initiative that promises to...
Lawyer Using Gmail Account Shows They Mean Business by Adding “Law” in Their Email Address
21 January 2026ISSUE NO. 9PERTH — Clients of sole practitioner Jason Harrington say they feel immediately reassured after receiving correspondence from jasonlaw@gmail.com, noting that the inclusion of the word “law” in the email address clearly signals a serious legal...
New TV Show Claims To Portray “Real Life In An Australian Law Firm” — Nation Horrified
14 January 2026ISSUE NO. 8SYDNEY — Australian audiences are this week grappling with the release of Billable, a gritty new workplace drama marketed as “the first TV show to accurately depict what it’s really like to work in an Australian law firm.” Far from the...
HR Christmas Spirit Tested by Kris Kringle Gift from Sex Shop Nobody Can Explain
17 December 2025ISSUE NO. 7SYDNEY — The People & Culture team at Harrington, Lowe & Myers has confirmed it is unable to determine whether a Kris Kringle gift purchased from a sex shop breaches firm policy, pending clarification of what the item is actually...
Firm Generously Gives Staff Mandatory Employment Entitlements for Christmas — Except for Urgent Matters
10 December 2025ISSUE NO. 6SYDNEY — Staff at Whitlam, Grange & Phelps have expressed gratitude after the firm announced it will be “generously” allowing employees to take their mandatory Christmas employment entitlements this year, subject to the minor condition...
New “Lawyer Flexitime” Lets Staff Work Whenever They’re Already Miserable
3 December 2025ISSUE NO. 5SYDNEY — In a bold step toward modern workplace reform, Cartwright & Dull LLP this week proudly announced the introduction of “Lawyer Flexitime,” a program designed to let staff work whenever they are already at their lowest ebb...
Government Employee So Busy They Don’t Even Have Time For Standard 90-Minute Lunch Break
26 November 2025ISSUE NO. 4Chaos has erupted in the Department of Administrative Processing this week, after one mid-level public servant was reportedly forced to complete nearly a full day’s worth of work, leaving no time for the traditional staring out the window or...
Corporate Lawyer Accidentally Hits “Accept All,” Assumes Other Side Will Happily Re-Redline
19 November 2025ISSUE NO. 3MELBOURNE — A corporate lawyer at Denning & Co accidentally accepted all changes in a contract he had just redlined, before sending it straight back to the opposing side. The lawyer is reportedly “pretty sure they’ll be fine just doing...
ATO Fast-Tracks Objection, Promises Review Within 24 Months
12 November 2025ISSUE NO. 2CANBERRA — The Australian Taxation Office has proudly announced a new “fast-track” system for taxpayer objections, cutting the usual timeframe from five years down to a “streamlined” 18–24 months. “Taxpayers told us they wanted faster...
Law Firm Spices Up Bios With Fun Facts, Proves Partners Are Just as Dull as Everyone Suspected
5 November 2025ISSUE NO. 1BRISBANE — In an effort to make its lawyers appear more approachable, Jansen & Moore has added “fun facts” to all staff biographies on its website. The results, however, have been underwhelming. Visitors can now learn that one partner...
Can Chat GPT Replace Adrian’s Poetry?
Can Chat GPT Replace Adrian’s Poetry? One of the amusing uses of LLMs like Chat GPT is to write in another person’s style. This includes writing poetry. Adrian has put his effort into drafting a Christmas tax poem. In considerably less time, ChatGPT drafted its...
Disneyland Service For Lawyers
Disneyland Service For Lawyers Disneyland promotes itself as the happiest place on Earth. But it is not happy simply because it has a collection of entertaining rides and activities. Any showground might have that. Nor is it the particular intellectual property of...
Xmas Chatbot
Chatbots are the new black. But this season they have also been the new red white and green - with the Cartland Law Xmas Chatbot. Having just spent 18 months developing legal AI (Ailira) when I went to send a Xmas message out to clients I thought that it wouldn’t be a...
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