Kiwi legaltech startup LawVu, a collaboration tool for in-house legal teams, has raised $2.5 million in a funding round involving Australian, US and New Zealand investors. It’s another major milestone for founder Sam Kidd. The latest round follows a 2020 funding investment of $3.65 million, with its legaltech suite of tools used by clients including
Among the top listings this week on the New Zealand law jobs network at LawFuel we outline some of the major legal opportunities available on the leading law jobs and news network. The jobs range from in-house to law firm and continue the range of opportunities that we see coming in to provide top job
The move towards gender equality in law firms continues with the latest announcement from law firm Ashurst Global law firm Ashurst announces the appointment of 14 partners, with effect from 1 May 2021. This year over three quarters (78%) of the new partners are female, building on the two thirds who were promoted last year.
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Century City – Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Maureen Gorsen has joined the firm in Los Angeles as a partner in its Environmental practice. She joins Sidley from Alston & Bird, where she was a partner in the firm’s Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources practice. Ms. Gorsen has extensive experience defending clients in
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (May 3, 2021) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added Alan L. Merriman as an associate in its New Haven office. Merriman joins Littler from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), where he was a field attorney from 2014 to 2021. “With nearly a decade
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Intellectual property firm, James & Wells, has announced the promotion of Andrew Scott to Partner and James Rowland to Associate. Andrew Scott joined James & Wells’ patent team in 2014 after practicing in Australia for eight years. With a background in physics, biochemistry and chemistry, including a PhD in synthetic medicinal chemistry and post-doctoral studies
Geoffrey Roberton QC is one of the world’s most famous barristers – certainly Australia’s most famous – but the flamboyant 74 year old has tired of the challenges facing international law and its lack of effectiveness. In a profile piece reported in TheSaturdayPaper (registration required), Robertson lambasted the Geoffrey Robertson, born in the Sydney suburbs,
We took at look at the G2.com, the software platform that ranks the top software tools by recommendation and satisfaction, to look at what the best legal billing software rankings are. What IS Legal Billing Software? Legal billing software is the software that – in essence – lets you get paid. Quite important, you may
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See Law Jobs on the LawFuel Network Here Clifford Chance has promoted 29 lawyers to partner in its latest round, with 11 women making the grade. The gender split is the highest in favour of women on record, according to the firm. The group is slightly higher than last year’s round, which handed promotions to
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Business law partner at Foley & Lardner, Silicon Valley, writes about the challenges of post-Pandemic workplaces and how we should focus on the benefits of using human capital Louis Lehot* Speculating about the future can be a perilous undertaking. If predictions from the twentieth century were right, we would be cruising around in flying cars
