Split trial for Dale v Clayton Utz … Former partner suing firm for breach of contract … Yarraside Appeals says Chris Dale has privilege against self-incrimination … Kate Lilly on the case 

Bronwyn Bishop – law student … Conflicting explanations for academic lapses … Unfortunate details about failed subjects from biographer David Leser’s  A Woman in Pursuit of Power 

Real estate news – Bell sells … Recycling the College of Law and old Sydney law buildings … Bookwork – law librarian movements … Celebrity report – more news about Charles Waterstreet  

Much to lean from a Canadian judge whose work sparkles … Litigants and witnesses mercilessly sprayed in delicious asides … We should have more of it 

Siphoning a miserable $12,000 from a property settlement sees a solicitor prised off the jam roll … Implausible explanation for misappropriation … Emilie Lentz at the Hellfire Club

Trouble with the advocates’ immunity – where does it start and stop? … Do a series of faulty statements of claim attract the immunity? … Full Feds to the rescue … Emilie Lentz reports 

Solicitor back in the game after an impressive history of offending and carelessness with revealing the gory details to the admission authorities … No such luck for a NZ lawyer seeking admission to the NSW bar n’ grill … Compare and contrast 

Action against ICAC … Misfeasance in public office no stranger to Eddie Obeid … Elaborate claims that ICAC fitted-up the Obeid boys … Geoffrey Watson SC waved his finger and interrupted