MinterEllison takes the crown as the firm senior lawyers most want to jump to, with Gilbert + Tobin close behind and Mallesons surging to 3rd. But love doesn't pay the bills: not one lawyer over 40 rated their pay "good" or "excellent", a brutal flip from 77% positive just last year. See the full breakdown here: Point Blank

⚖️ Greenwashing: The Supreme Court of NSW has hit Fiducian Investment Management Services with a $7.3m penalty. It's ASIC's fourth greenwashing win and the first against a fund operator for governance failures. FIMS breached its care and diligence duty as responsible entity of its 'Diversified Social Aspirations Fund', and made misleading ESG claims while quietly holding fossil fuel investments through underlying funds from 2019. Investors raised concerns as early as 2019, but FIMS never corrected its 'ethical' marketing. Looks like penalties for greenwashing are only getting heavier: ASIC

⚖️ Insolvency: The NSW Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that Westwood Capital must repay $5m it received as a deposit under a $100m property deal with Portman Securities, later liquidated. Westwood tried to rely on the good faith defence in s 588FG(2) of the Corporations Act, which protects recipients who act in good faith, have no reasonable grounds to suspect insolvency, and give value in return. Westwood's director claimed he'd checked Portman's finances beforehand, but his evidence was rejected as unreliable, leaving no real basis for the defence. The Court also noted the pair's close personal relationship undercut any claim Westwood couldn't have known Portman was in trouble: Maddocks

⚖️ Disputes: In the One Central Park defect litigation, the builder argued it couldn't be sued because the claim was brought outside the statutory limitation period, the time limit within which a legal claim must be filed. It wanted this limitation defence heard early as a standalone issue, accepting the respondents' factual case for the sake of argument and asserting the claim would still fail at law. The NSW Supreme Court said no. Rees J found the defence involved mixed fact and law, so evidence and discovery were still needed. Any 'time savings' were illusory given an appeal was likely on the roughly $200m claim anyway. Limitation defences only get early treatment in the 'clearest of cases': MinterEllison

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NSW wants take-home assessments scrapped for Year 12, blaming AI for gutting the HSC's integrity. The NSW Education Standards Authority has been told to suspend unsupervised take-home tasks by Term 4, right as the next HSC cohort starts, alongside a broader review into AI's effect on kids' learning: TDA

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