Ngai Tahu Holdings is excited to announce the appointment of two new directors to its board – Kristen Kohere-Soutar and Juliet Tainui-Hernandez Both highly experienced directors are joining the NgÄi Tahu Holdings Board for three-year terms. Kohere-Soutar was previously chair of Whai Rawa, the NgÄi Tahu savings scheme, until joining the board of global professional
*According to a leading legal journalist who has gossiped and drunk with many Drinking with managing partners can be a challenging pursuit, even for a legal editor like Alex Novarese of Legal Business. But it does help provide some interesting and perhaps more honest appraisal of where the legal industry is going after the upheavals
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O’Neill Patient Solicitors to offer expansion help or an exit route to other legal firms One of the UK’s leading conveyancing solicitors, O’Neill Patient LLP (ONP) is prepared to provide help or an exit route to other legal firms. Following its purchase of South East based Cavendish Legal Group, which completed in June, it has
Leading law firm, MinterEllisonRuddWatts advised MediaWorks on its sale agreement to sell MediaWorks TV to Discovery Inc (Discovery), a global leader of ‘real-life’ entertainment.MediaWorks is New Zealand’s largest independent commercial broadcaster, with MediaWorks TV comprising free-to-air channels Three and Bravo, streaming service ThreeNow, and multi-platform news and current affairs service Newshub, as well as the
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Global law firm DLA Piper is moving its Auckland office to new premises in the PwC Tower in Commercial Bay on 7 September 2020. DLA Piper’s New Zealand Country Managing Partner, Martin Wiseman, says “I’m incredibly excited to be shifting to this world-class, open-plan, technically sophisticated office environment. It tangibly reflects our desire for more
The impending insolvency crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic raises key questions for company directors and lawyers – such as what choices directors should make in the ‘insolvency environment’. A seminar on the insolvency law landscape and its effect upon the legal profession is the subject of a forthcoming webinar coming in the
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The lawyer who defended Charles Manson has died at age 100. Irving Kanarek (pictured above in 1970) defended the cult killer Manson whose macabre killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others created international headlines and intrigue. The national spotlight that focused on Kanarek made his disruptive circus of courtroom tactics almost as fascinating as
Mintz Law – Last week, the plaintiffs in three related children’s privacy class actions sought preliminary approval of proposed settlements with sixteen defendants in those coordinated actions. The matters—known as the Kiloo Action, the Disney Action, and the Viacom Action—are pending in the Northern District of California, case numbers 3:17-CV-04344-JD; 3:17-CV-4419-JD; 3:17-CV-4492-JD. The motion, which can be found here, will be heard
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Accidents inevitably lead to a multitude of issues, not the least being an equal multitude of questions about legal liability and the evaluation of any claim resulting from the injury. It is a circumstance where it seems everyone has advice, but that obtained from a specialist personal injury attorney who can properly and honestly review
The startling fall from grace of blue-blooded Melbourne SC Norman O’Bryan, a barrister of such repute that he held the Order of Australia, has rocked both the local Melbourne bar and reverberated about the Australian profession. O’Bryan could barely have had a more distinguished legal pedigree. Both his grandfather and father were both Supreme Court
