James Farmer KC Former Court of Appeal and Supreme Court Judge Bill Wilson KC has recently died (12 September 2025), a sad event to those who knew him. Surprisingly, this has gone virtually unheralded (The Press being the only report). This note is intended to redress that omission. Bill’s career as a practicing lawyer was […]
Isaac Stein, a furloughed IRS worker who would normally be spending his time writing retirement plan regulations from his DC office. But with Uncle Sam’s latest shutdown circus kicking off this month, he’s ditched the desk for the streets, peddling hot dogs, Moon Pies, and RC Cola from a cart brazenly dubbed “SHYSTERS.” Because nothing
Kim Kardashian, Esq. (Almost) Kim Kardashian has done more supervised study hours than most junior associates have billables, completing California’s six-year Law Office Study Program and sitting the state bar in July. Results drop on 7 November and we can expect more online media mashups when that all happens. The law degree didn’t start as
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Simmons & Simmons have grown their pensions team in the UK, hiring top pensions risk lawyer Amrit McLean (pictured) and senior lawyers from DLA Piper. McLean has extensive experience and contact within the pensions risk transfer arena, a key component in insurance deals. The firm’s media release concerning the move is below – International law
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Clifford Chance is boosting its class action capability in Germany with the recruitment of a 15 strong team in Germany, lead by partner Alexandra Diehl. The recruitment move follows other recent partner hires to the Clifford Chance disputes practice in Australia, Spain, Italy and the US. Diehl formerly worked at the firm before joining White
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Select Committee Blocks ANZ’s Legislative End Run In a decision that sent tremors through the executive suites of New Zealand’s banking establishment, Parliament’s Finance & Expenditure Select Committee has delivered what can only be described as a judicial body blow to Big Banking’s most audacious gambit yet: attempting to legislate away a class action mid-flight.
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Lawyer’s Report Show One in Three Australians Sexually Harassed at Work Burke Mangan LawyersDespite landmark legal reforms, sexual harassment remains entrenched in Australian workplaces. New analysis from Burke Mangan Lawyers, specialists in employment law, reveals that one in three workers have experienced sexual harassment in the past five years – yet fewer than one in
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Raise a glass (or a fountain pen) – the legal profession’s most antiquated greeting has finally been given the boot. The UK Law Society has formally binned “Dear Sirs”, a phrase that clings to legal correspondence like mothballs on a barrister’s robe. The new guidance urges lawyers to ditch the gendered opener that harks back
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Big Class Action Win For Small Firm Lawyer ASB has agreed to pay $135.6 million to settle the four-year old Banking Class Action over alleged disclosure breaches under the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act. The deal needs High Court approval and comes with the usual non-admission of liability. The quick take: ASB writes a
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Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor A High Court judge has ruled that PPE Medpro, the supplier linked to former lingerie queen Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman, breached its 2020 contract to deliver 25 million sterile surgical gowns to the Department of Health and Social Care. Mone, who grew up in Glasgow and
