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NBR Founder Starts New Art Auction House in Whanganui

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The Opportunity For Lawyers and Others to Auction Estate and Other Art Creates Welcome Competition and Reduced Commissions Aimed at serving the lower North Island and providing an alternative to Wellington, September 1 sees the launch of Heritage Art Auctions, New Zealand’s newest, and only totally dedicated, Art Auction House outside of Auckland. The auctions

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Management Shakeup At Slaughter & May To Modernize Law Firm Structure

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Management changes at Slaughter & May have seen the Magic Circle law firm dispensing with its executive partner and practice partner roles, replacing the positions with chief operating officer from outside the firm partnership. The move echoes what firms are beginning to practice or at least examine as they modernize their management structure to make

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Goodwin Procter Has Boosted Its Tech Law Practice With 12 Hires From Rival Law Firms

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Goodwin Procter has boosted its its technology practice with the addition of twelve lawyers — including seven partners — from rival firms in New York, Silicon Valley and Washington DC. Goodwin has been elevating its tech law practice recently with nearly 50 lawyers joining the firm this year and has taken four partners from Boston-based

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Recidivist Fraudster Jailed For Broadway Ticket Resale Scam

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Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH MELI was sentenced today to 37 months in prison in connection with MELI’s participation in a fraudulent Broadway ticket investment scheme wherein MELI purported to use investor funds to purchase tickets to Broadway shows for resale on the secondary

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The Law Society Tribunal’s Decision on James Gardner-Hopkins The ‘Young, Cool’ Russell McVeagh Partner Who Succumbed to the “Laddish” Work Hard, Play Hard Culture

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The New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has found James Desmond Gardner-Hopkins, a former Russell McVeagh Partner, guilty of misconduct on six charges brought by a National Standards Committee on behalf of the New Zealand Law Society. In his evdience, Gardner-Hopkins described his perception of the culture of the firm, and in particular the

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Bar Association congratulates newly appointed Queen’s Counsel

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The New Zealand Bar Association has welcomed the announcement of 10 new  Queen’s Counsel.  >> Legal Drafting Roles – Banking – Property Law – New Roles on the LawFuel Network  The new Silks are Lynda Kearns, Stephen McCarthy, Ron Mansfield, Fletcher Pilditch,  Davey Salmon and Laura O’Gorman (all from Auckland), Greg Arthur, Michael Colson  and

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Ron Mansfield, Davy Salmon Among 10 New Silks Announced Today

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Four women among the 10 Announced by Attorney General Today Prominent criminal lawyer Ron Mansfield and leading civil litigation barrister Davey Salmon are among the 10 silks announced today, which also includes former Chapman Tripp partner Victoria Heine in Wellington and Christchurch’s Kerryn Beaton, who had worked assisting Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia The full

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How A Top Lawyer’s Degrees in Mathematics and Physics Helped Him Adapt His Big Law Firm to Legal Tech Developments

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Fish & Richardson principal Michael Portnov was interviewed by Corporate Counsel Business Journal for the article, “Staying Ahead of the Artificial Intelligence Curve.” Corporate Counsel Business Journal: How did you get involved in artificial intelligence (AI) patent work? Michael Portnov: I’ve been working with AI and machine learning technologies for about eight years now. When I

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