The aspirationals … Another year … Another dramatic folly touches the list of 2019 applicants for silk in NSW … The list is out and here it is … Surely, Smallbone is smarting at this latest turn of events  

Atanaskovic and his law shop take on their old client Bruce Gordon … Vlad collects most of his fees and in the process is impaled … The flames of Brodie Clarke’s villainy are still brightly burning … Massive judgment prepared, only for the dispute to settle days before it is delivered … Money remained the live issue … Atanaskovic charged the client for investigating his employee’s fraud … Unflattering findings … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Justice Rares tells the Crown not to bother him with trifles concerning the cost of hearing a case on Norfolk island … Treating the Federal Court as a “small agency” of the Commonwealth … “Interests of justice” … Rant from the bench … Stephen Murray reports 

Money, money, money … Fat fees per day for Sydney silkies … Tom Bathurst’s looming departure … Ka-ching – the governor’s property clean-up … High Court suppression tussle … Theodora reports

The Bill Davidson story … Another chapter in the bankrupt barrister saga … Application to rejoin the jam roll rejected … Failure to come to grips with past “moral” lapses … Inability to manage income and tax … Janek Drevikovsky reporting 

The Sal Vasta file … A rummage through recent history … Bombast and bullying  … Lashings of contempt … Errors of law … “Mentoring” underway … Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports 

The real world at variance with the claustrophobia of defamation proceedings … Relevant facts missing from judge’s reasons … United Petroleum franchise distress … Damages of $72,347.40 … Default judgment entered and then court approves a warrant for the arrest of the missing respondent … The missing backstory 

Future of Law and Innovation Conference struggled with the technology … Plentiful lunch options …  AI … Kirby adjudicated debate on “Uberisation” of lawyers … How to use LinkedIn … Space law … Techno fonts … Lawyerly prospects when technology fails … Justice in the era of “late capitalism” … Theodora reports