UK firm Clyde & Co is weighing up redundancies, with legal support, IT and purchase-to-pay roles set to shift to shared services centres in Glasgow and an Accenture facility in Manila. Fee earners are safe. They're not the only ones trimming back headcount: A&O Shearman, Baker McKenzie and Freshfields have all made similar cuts recently: Legal Cheek

Legora has snapped up commercial real estate AI startup Cadastral, its fourth acquisition this year, buying an entry point into a sector where legal teams drown in contracts, leases and DD. The New York-based target serves 50-plus firms including JLL and only launched last year: NB

The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia has issued a formal Practice Direction on AI covering all court users including lawyers, litigants and experts. The core obligations under the PD: verify all AI-generated content (including case citations), don't feed confidential or privileged material into public AI tools, and ensure affidavits reflect the witness's own words. There's no obligation to proactively disclose GenAI use (unless you're an expert witness). But lawyers must be ready to explain what tool was used, how outputs were checked and supervised, and how the PD’s principles were observed. Ignorance won't fly as an excuse: FCFOAk

NSW prosecutor Sally Dowling has promoted Thomas Buckingham to acting Crown prosecutor, despite a court finding he improperly coached a sexual assault complainant on what evidence to give at trial. The ODPP says it was neither intentional nor deliberate, and that he's done "substantial professional development" since. The underlying prosecution ended in acquittal: AFR

Melbourne migration boutique Gold Migration Lawyers went into liquidation on 1 June, ghosting clients mid-visa application. One client lost $7,700 from a trust account, while another's family paid $20k with no idea what was actually filed: Australasian Lawyer