01 December 2025 Torrin Crowther Bell Gully has been awarded the New Zealand Country Award at the 2025 Lexology Index Awards (formerly known as the Who’s Who Legal Awards), held in London on 27 November. We were recognised for our leadership in the New Zealand market, based on exceptional performance among the many firms Lexology
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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has announced a new partnership with Legora. The integration marks a major milestone in the firm’s multi-year innovation strategy – one that combines leading technology, data partnerships, and responsible governance to drive measurable impact. From pilot to practice The decision to partner with Legora follows a rigorous competitive pilot
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Compensation sought for negligent power outage estimated to have cost businesses tens of millions of dollars A class action has been filed against Transpower, the state-owned electricity grid operator, and its lines maintenance contractor, Omexom arising out of a major power outage which occurred in June 2024. The class action seeks to recover losses on behalf
Kellam Conover, 44, the Washington DC-based lawyer who tragedly died this week climbing Mount Cook in New Zealand’s South Island, was a talented appellate lawyer and held a desire to ultimately teach law. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Dartmouth College, Conover built a reputation as a formidable litigator in high-stakes commercial and product
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Souce: The eDigital Company Today, the modern client’s journey often begins with a search engine. For legal practices, establishing a robust online presence is no longer a luxury but a fundamental component of a successful marketing strategy. A foundational element of this strategy is a deep understanding of legal SEO. This specialized discipline focuses on
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, recently shortened its partnership track to 7.5 years to attract top talent. Partner compensation is collaborative, without origination credits, and was revised in 2024 to prioritize client relationship expansion based on internal reviews. The firrm has 1200 lawyers and 280 partners across three continents. This week the firm announced its
(November 25, 2025) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has appointed Shareholder Jen Chierek Znosko (St. Louis) as the new co-chair of the firm’s Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI), joining Shareholder Margaret Parnell Hogan (Denver). Znosko succeeds Jennifer A. Youpa (Dallas) who will be retiring this year. Formed in 2008,
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Leading global law firm, Baker McKenzie, has hired Sebastian Ma’ilei as a Transfer Pricing Partner in the Firm’s Tax team in London. Prior to joining the Firm, Sebastian (Seb) worked, most recently, as a Transfer Pricing Partner in the London office of Deloitte, where he has a proven track record of generating transfer pricing work
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Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has recuited four M&A and private equity lawyes from Norton Rose Fulbright in Munich boosting the firm’s European transactional firepower. The firm’s media statement on the hires is below – “We’re excited to add a top-quality team with experience in the most sophisticated German and cross-border work for leading public companies
NetDocuments sees 72% APAC growth as law firms embrace AI tools – IT Brief NetDocuments has reported 72% year-on-year growth in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, expanding its user base to more than 20,000 legal professionals across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Japan. The company attributes this expansion to strong uptake of its intelligent document management
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