9 February 2010 | Former High Court judge Michael Kirby will go head to head this morning with the American judge dubbed the "Arnold Schwarzenegger of American jurisprudence" in a debate to be moderated by Justice Murray Gleeson.
11 December 2009 | Australia's various legal professional bodies have today released a report calling for a major overhaul of federal and state legal aid funding.
7 December 2009 | Women lawyers have been left reeling over the results of a national survey looking at the gap between the appearances of women and men in the courts.
4 December 2009 | Female barristers are appearing in Australian courts at the same rate as their male counterparts, a newly released survey reveals.
3 December 2009 | A taskforce charged with developing uniform legislation to regulate the Australian legal profession has today released three new discussion papers.
9 November 2009 | Lawyers need to be spared the burden of government interference in professional conduct and regulation, the profession itself claims.
3 November 2009 | Lawyers in Western Australia have reacted to a new report revealing a decline in legal aid funding.
29 October 2009 | Commonwealth funding for legal aid has been dropping sharply, new figures show.
8 October 2009 | The peak body representing Australian lawyers has welcomed today's release of the National Human Rights Consultation report, which recommends the adoption of a Human Rights Act.
18 September 2009 | The president of the peak body representing Australian lawyers today pointed to migration lawyers in an effort to highlight the need to push for a national regulation of the legal profession.
22 July 2009 | The legal profession is socially exclusive, wealthier and better educated than its other-profession peers, a new report has found 1 comment
17 July 2009 | Following the release of the Law Council of Australia's rural, regional and remote areas lawyers survey, The New Lawyer speaks to lawyers about their experiences working in regional Australia
9 July 2009 | Rural and regional areas of Victoria faces a severe shortage of legal practitioners, according to a new study of the profession. 2 comments
17 June 2009 | Victorian lawyers have expressed, in no unclear terms, their views on a charter of human rights.
3 June 2009 | The state of the fairer sex in the legal profession has come to the fore as the body representing the country's lawyers launches a national briefing survey. 5 comments
27 May 2009 | Lawyers' position to see how human rights are infringed has driven debate in the profession around whether a bill of rights should be introduced.
25 May 2009 | The Australian and New Zealand legal professions have publicly condemned the Fiji Government's raid of the country's law society offices on the weekend.
6 May 2009 | The $24.7 million funding announced for Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) in this year's State Budget must be backed up by improved Federal funding, according to the Law Institute of Victoria.
6 May 2009 | The peak body presenting Australian lawyers has spoken out against what it calls inadequate human rights laws.
6 May 2009 | The Law Council has welcomed the proposed overhaul of the Federal, Magistrates and Family courts.
30 April 2009 | LCA calls for bill of rights, again; Temporary judge in Tas; Deadline passes for BrisConnections;
23 April 2009 | Despite claims that sexuality is a non-issue in Australian law firms, chambers and court rooms, readers have expressed dismay at hostile and unprofessional behaviour against gay and lesbian lawyers. Editor Kate Gibbs asks, can all lawyers crack through the glass ceiling? 2 comments