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Wing-Clipped Nelson Lawyer Banned for Bad Behaviour Fails in Air NZ Injunction Liftoff
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LegalTech & New Law
LegalTech Innovator Enters New Phase of Growth
Axiom Managed Solutions Relaunches as Factor (Image Dreamtimes.com) Powered by LawFuel- After Spin-Out from Axiom, Legal Innovator Enters New Phase of Growth; … [Read More...]
Australian LegalTech Tool Helps Employees Contact Lawyers
Australian law firm IRIQ has developed an AI chat bot to help employees easily contact lawyers. Using Brisbane-based technology group Blackbook.ai, IRIQ developed the … [Read More...]
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Australian Firm News
Something Old, Something New – One Barrister’s Love for the Horse Hair Wig . . And His Fight Against Something Far More Modern
They may be relics these days, but for barrister Ray Broomhall, the collection of wigs is part of a desire to retain a slice of legal history. But at the same time this barrister has successfully fought against something far more modern than the wigs of old. As wigs are now part of legal history […]
Unleashing Hell – Russell Crowe Adds Gladiatorial Push For Kiwis in Australia
Ex-pat Kiwi Russell Crowe has been asked to deliver a gladiatorial blow to Australia’s hard line stance on Kiwi expats living in Australia in order to provide fairer treatment. As one of New Zealand’s highest-profile ‘Australians’, (Crowe was born in Island Bay, Wellington), the Oscar-winning actor has been requested to lend his weight to a […]
UK Firm News
US Law Firm’s Take Home Big Dollars with Record Profits
Record profits have been recorded by a number of the US major law firms the Financial Times reports, with profits of $3 million on average. The FT report that US firm results show double-digit revenue growth during 2019, driven in part by some major deals like the Bristol-Myers Squibb $93 billion takeover of Celgene. Increase […]
UK Legal Industry Reaches All-Time High in 2019
Powered by LawFuel – The UK Legal Industry generated revenues of £37.1bn in 2019, up 4.8% on 2018 – an all-time record, according to data released today by the Office of National Statistics. To put this in context, overall 2019 UK Services Industries turnover was £2.3tn, up 3.5%. Legal Industry Activity Looking at activity specifically […]