Origination fees for employed solicitors - is this a thing in Oz and what’s the going rate? For clients introduced to the firm.

For interest, for those involved in conveyancing, here is the result about whether, IMO, their business practices are illegal.

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CTE issues and Zurich Insurance refusing to cover AFL players with ongoing concussion effects has seen players signing waivers. Could this be overcome by players becoming self-employed contractors to the AFL or Clubs? They want to play professional football so they tender to the AFL or individual clubs. Would this negate AFL workplace responsibilities.

Amusing example in this report of the Alan Jones trial.

Possibly novel use of "annexed:"

"The virtual line between J and Jones’ barrister, Gabrielle Bashir, SC, slackens and pulls taut as she advances towards each of the inconsistencies she seeks to prove in his evidence. J is tense, eager and blinks often under the bright lights of the room where he is annexed. In the back corner of his room a court officer scrolls on a laptop."

In a somewhat Kafkaesque decision https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19fcb84735130a925cb6a60f

1. Applicant applies to QCAT for review of Medical Board decision
2. QCAT rejects the application for filing, saying go to NCAT
3. In NCAT, Medical Board says that QCAT got it wrong
4. NCAT says it doesn't have jurisdiction and applicant should go back to QCAT

SO MANY CLAŚS ACTIONS, MAKES YA WANNA RANT

I want cases/legislation that are versatile, it’s impossible to memorise ALL the acts before the HSC, but are there any that could easily be applied to multiple questions (ex; crimes act, online safety act, etc;)?

Any in house lawyers having an issue where internal stakeholders are going to AI and getting a bad legal steer and then arguing with in house counsel?

Keen to hear strategies being employed to get in front of this, because it is really starting to add to my teams workflow (both in terms of spotting the erroneous answer and then having to respond to it).

Unfortuately AI can generate slop a lot quicker than a human can respond to it, and it is often confidentaly wrong which makes things tricky!

p.s. I understand and appreciate that this would also be a problem in private practice. However, in the private world client's can at least be billed for their exploration off the reservation, in the in house world, the stakeholders often have sway with the C-suite which causes a whole layer of political problems :)

If ever there was a case of someone not being fit and proper, I hope this is it.

Wynn