A former Wotton Kearney senior associate is taking his old firm to court, alleging he was unfairly dismissed in breach of Fair Work general protections. He’s also named chief people officer Odile Shepherd and partner Charu Stevenson, and he’s representing himself. WK will defend the claim, insisting it “prides itself on being a people first business”: Lawyerly

Legora’s 27-year-old boss Max Junestrand swaggered through Sydney last week, brushing off Harvey with “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” More telling, over half of Legora’s new business now comes from in-house teams, not firms. Should BigLaw be sweating? Junestrand reckons not, insisting AI is growing the legal pie: AFR

Law firms are pitching themselves as AI pioneers while their lawyers battle dying laptops. Legal Cheek’s survey of 2,000+ UK juniors found that Harvey and Claude are running on machines that can’t cope. One rookie says their laptop screen physically fell off. Another nailed it: “AI is only going to get you so far if you can’t even open an email”: Legal Cheek

Weil’s demise is getting ugly. About 10 former partners have lawyered up with Foley & Lardner’s Peter Wang, who repped 100+ lawyers in Dewey & LeBoeuf’s collapse, to claw back their equity before landlords and vendors get paid. Others are eyeing a fiduciary duty suit against longtime executive partner Barry Wolf’s management committee: AFR

KPMG Australia is swinging the axe again, cutting up to 400 more roles by month’s end in what it’s calling “the reset”. Consulting and back-office teams cop the worst of it, with consulting revenue down a third since July. That takes total cuts to about 800, or 9% of the firm: AFR