LawFuel’s 2020 Lawyer of the Year Cassie Nicholson has been front-and-centre for the COVID pandemic, marshalling legal forces and commanding quiet respect throughout the public service higher echelons for her work amending, revising, updating and writing legislative orders and laws permitting the country to ride out the pandemic successfully. ==> Lawyer of the Year Interview
Anna Rawlings has readily assumed the mantle of competition and fair trading watchdog with an accompanying rapid rise up the Power List (again) and raised headlines with her recent castigation of the supermarket duopoly that hike their ‘specials’ to their captive market. However it has been more than just the grocers who have come under
The highlight of Tiana Epati’s year was the birth of her daughter (below), but the COVID-wracked year also saw her entrench and increase her leadership role within the profession, boosting her Power List rankings as one of the country’s most powerful and influential lawyers. As the first person of Polynesian descent to hold the Law
Solicitor General Una Jagose oversees the 800 lawyers in Government but hit the headlines with her fronting to the AbuseinCare Royal Commission last year, when she apologised on behalf of the government for the abuse of children. The apology had mixed reviews as she announced her strategy for dealing with the situation. “It might be
New Entrant – Natalie Coates, partner at Kāhui Legal has two first class honours degrees and a post-graduate degree from Harvard. But her academic achievements are not what brings her to the Power List as a new entrant but rather her New Zealand legal-making achievement in September when the Supreme Court allowed former Christchurch Civic
Barrister Katherine Anderson rejoins the Power List following her 2015 entry when she was Auckland Council’s lead counsel. She has brought a diverse range of talents and experience to her practice, now as a barrister at Auckland’s Sangro Chambers. As Deputy Chair of the Human Rights Review Tribunal and lead counsel assisting both the Catholic
The issue of how a house is handled in a divorce is one of the key issues for determination after child custody – and even pet custody issues are dealt with. The situation is common enough, given that the National Center of Health Statistics reported that in 2020 there were over 2,015,000 divorces, being
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Quinn Emanuel Silicon Valley Managing Partner Victoria Maroulis was featured in the AmLaw Litigation Daily for doing her part to broaden the pipeline into the legal profession. Maroulis, who arrived in the United States in 1988 as political refugee from the Soviet Union, worked her way through remedial reading courses at Ohlone College, a community college in Fremont, CA,
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The #MeToo movement has been a pre-Covid issue that continues today with continued focus upon sexual harassment issues, including in the Justice System. The recent issues surrounding Prince Andrew and Andrew Cuomo have further highlighted sexual harassment, but there is a firm suggestion in many quarters that the US Justice System (and perhaps others, too)
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Martin Ruiz Targeted Elderly Clients in New Mexico in Long-Running Scheme Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), announced the unsealing of a Complaint charging MARTIN RUIZ with investment adviser
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