For years, law grad hiring among Australia’s top firms remained strong. Until now. MinterEllison has become the first major Australian law firm to admit AI is eating grad jobs, cutting its intake by almost a third to 72 as automation takes over routine entry-level work. Overall graduate hiring across eight top firms fell 7% to 716 this year. HSF Kramer, Allens, Mallesons and NRF all cut numbers too, though each insists AI wasn’t the driving factor: AFR

A former administrator is suing MinterEllison for $766k. She alleged she was called "slow" in group emails, told she'd "ruined everyone's Christmas mood," and bullied via caps lock and underlining. Minters says those emails were "innocuous" and she was also repeatedly complained about by colleagues: Lawyerly

The ACCC went after Coles on fake discounts, and won. Justice O'Bryan found 13 of 14 "Down Down" products carried misleading discounts, with prices hiked for 28 days before being "cut" back to near their original level. The magic number? O’Bryan J says hold prices 12 weeks before discounting, or it’s misleading. Johnson Winter Slattery acted for the ACCC; Allens ran Coles' defence. Read our deep dive on the decision here: Point Blank

Lawyers are quietly booting AI notetakers from client meetings before they even start. The added bot is making lawyers nervous with every offhand comment becomes discoverable, and sharing a meeting with an AI bot could waive privilege. The NSW Supreme Court has flagged that a “public Gen AI chatbot” might “lack adequate safeguards, to preserve … confidentiality, privacy or legal professional privilege”. Maybe don't let the robot take minutes just yet: AFR

Mayne Pharma has been knocked back trying to access Corrs Chambers Westgarth's invoices during a costs hearing in the NSW Supreme Court. Mayne had successfully challenged Cosette's attempt to walk away from their collapsed $672m merger, and is now seeking $13.6m in costs, against Cosette's position of $10.5m. Justice Brereton set aside Mayne's notice to produce the 922 pages of Corrs invoices. Brereton J found that the losing party's spend isn't a benchmark for what's reasonable to award the winner. Even if Cosette ran a "Rolls-Royce" case, Mayne can't expect Cosette to fund the same luxury: Lawyerly