Pinsent Mason – You could be forgiven for thinking that AI is the “fairy dust” product that instantly delivers quick and accurate results. Behind the hype there are real possibilities for its application to the delivery of legal services, but what do in-house teams – and their internal clients – need to know to
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Former Baker + McKenzie chief Christine Lagarde will be the first non-economist and woman to hold the role as president of the European Central Bank. Ms Lagarde was chairwoman of Baker & McKenzie and has since held cabinet positions in the French government and been managing director of the International Monetary Fund sincve 2011. The
The flip side of #Metoo is the need to employ ‘superior’ men, requiring positive discrimination in the view of Australian law firm Lander & Rogers. The firm ranks highly on The Australian Financial Review Law Partnership Survey, with 37 per cent of partners being female and with 76 per cent of senior associates being female
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Powered by LawFuel – National law firm, Lane Neave, is proud to welcome two new Partners in recognition of their outstanding work and contribution to the firm’s clients. Chris Anderson becomes a Lifelaw Partner in Christchurch and Daniel Kruger becomes an Immigration Partner in Auckland. Chris Anderson brings a wealth of knowledge and skill to
New Zealand Justice Minister Andrew Little has admonished Google for their name suppression breach over the naming of a murder suspect in a Twitter video. Justice Minister Andrew Little has taken to his 27,000 followers on Twitter to admonish Google for breaching name suppression orders in the Grace Millane case in December 2018. The online
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United States Ambassador Scott Brown, Dylan Asafo, and the Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the Fulbright New Zealand Awards Ceremony. A desire to understand and redress society’s worst inequalities is what drives University of Auckland academic Fuimaono (Dylan) Asafo. With this in mind, the twenty-six year-old Teaching Fellow
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) is proud to complete their partner appointments globally with the promotion of nine lawyers in Australia and three lawyers in Hong Kong, effective 1 July 2019. The announcements are in addition to the recent promotion of 28 new partners across the firm’s China offices and two partners in the EUME
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LOS ANGELES – Powered by LawFuel – A doctor who operates a medical clinic in West Hollywood where he specializes in treating HIV patients has been taken into custody pursuant to federal charges that allege he engaged in a long-running scheme to defraud health insurance companies in connection with the brand-name human growth hormone Serostim. James
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Class actions are on the rise in Australia after the Royal Commission into misconduct in the financial sector, but also with more ‘litigation funding action’. The first half of 2018 saw 29 class actions filed in Australia, 35 in the second half and a further 18 for the first half of 2019, according to figures
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(London) –Powered by LawFuel – Akin Gump is pleased to announce that Gavin Weir will join the firm as a partner in its London office. Mr. Weir will join from White & Case, where he has served as co-leader of its Financial Institutions M&A group. He is expected to join Akin Gump later this summer. Mr.
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