The Law Institute of Victoria faces turmoil and losses … Only 66 percent of practising solicitors are members … The NSW solicitors club is booming with a 90 percent membership rate and a big fat balance sheet 

Solicitor decides not to get in the way of barristers’ stoush over fees … Ancient defamation case still causing angst … Three musketeers of the defamation bar jousting over a “small amount of money” … Equity rescues the common law … Stephen Murray reports 

ALRC in the senate spotlight … Family Court PR machine challenged … Hobart chambers no guns policy … Latest Goings On with Theodora 

Family judges playing in the second division win the toss … First division players to be sent off the field … Welcome to the new-old Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia – a multi-level judicial sweatshop where enmities can fester 

Where’s Virginia? … 100% of new Tasmanian silks are women … Notes from The Map … Coroners can’t cope … Street talk … Solicitor spanked and thanked 

Circuit Court judge over the line in family law property case … Too many questions from the bench, expressions of disbelief, sarcasm, procedural unfairness … Ginger Snatch reports 

On the cusp of federal courts restructure … Caustic advice to Thee-Wigs Willy Alstergren on how to run the Family Court’s appeal division … New head of the division has limited family law experience, as does the chief justice … Recipe for unhappiness … Rules, requirements and ruminations 

Qld CA clean bowls admissions board which got hung-up on graduate’s trivial mistakes … SA Full Court not so kind to solicitor who made false claims for legal aid funds … Nick Bonyhady reports