What to Actually Look for When Recruiting a Senior Lawyer in Western Australia
Western Australia makes that harder to judge. The Perth legal market is relatively small and closely connected, heavily shaped by resources, energy and infrastructure work, and highly sensitive to commodity cycles. A senior hire who doesn’t suit the role is expensive to unwind, and in a market this size, people notice.
AI and the West Australian legal market
There is no shortage of commentary about how AI will transform the legal profession.
Some of it will prove right. Some of it almost certainly will not.
What is clear is that AI is already changing how legal work is performed. But from what we are seeing across the WA market, it is not reducing the importance of good Lawyers. If anything, it is changing what “good” looks like.