2019 Financial Results Ashurst today announces its results for the year ended 30 April 2019. Revenue of £641 million – an increase of 14% (£564 million in 2018) Average profit per equity partner of £972,000 – an increase of 31% (£743,000 in 2018) Paul Jenkins, Global Managing Partner of Ashurst, said: “In the last financial
Australia’s leading independent law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, has announced that senior lawyers Alexandra Feros, Alistair Newton and Anna White have been promoted to the partnership. Congratulating the new partners, Corrs CEO Gavin MacLaren said: “I am delighted to welcome Alex, Alistair and Anna to the partnership. Covering a mix of corporate, competition and environment
Leading Australian Barrister Larissa Andelman has said that the “unique, idiosyncratic” law profession needs bystander provisions to improve the profession’s culture and combat sexual harassment. Sexual harassment, workplace bullying and other workplace misconduct has low reporting rates and bystander provisions permit reporting of incidents by witnesses. Lawyers Weekly reported that Andelman, who is NSW Women
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Baker & McKenzie released their video (below) outlining their 70 year story as ‘the original disrupters’ from opening their first office in Latin America in 1955 to being the first to open behind the Iron Curtain in 1987. The firm also celebrates its inclusion and diversity, having over 400 women partners and setting aspirational targets
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The LawFuel Jobs Network has released seven key legal jobs on its expanding network that could change the career of the seven successful applicants. The LawFuel network provides legal roles through its exclusive law jobs site, as well as on the LawFuel News site and via its social media network. The growth of the network
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Tompkins Wake is another firm that is expanding its footprint, with a growing Auckland office, but trying hard to also retain its smaller firm culture and feel. Generally well liked by staff and alumni alike, the firm is one to consider in the second tier Big Law group. CEO Jon Calder Firm Chair Partners 22
John Bowie – Sometime Google’s government affairs man in New Zealand, Ross Young, must wish he had remained working with the Commerce Commission. After last week’s fracas over the name publication debacle in respect of the Grace Millane murder, Ross Young offered the search Giant’s apology to Justice Minister Little with some forelock-tugging and acknowledgement
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The jet-setting Epstein, 66, was arrested Saturday when his private jet landed at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, following which he was held in jail over the weekend as he awaited his first court appearance. Epstein’s multiple homes in Europe, the Virgin Islands, Manhattan and elsewhere, as well a his two jets and fleet
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Bob Jones* In the legal battle between the sacked footballer and the Australian Rugby Union, the former is on pretty solid ground. The Rugby Union is relying on an agreement with Folau, following an earlier identical furore, that he would desist citing his religious beliefs publicly. The problem the ARU has is that such an
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A team of academics explore how a union default might work through legal regulation HAMILTON, 24 JUNE 2019 – A team of academics is calling for a change to voluntary unionism. Instead of the present non-union default for workers, common in many countries, they would like to see a union default, and they have
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