35 Pip Greenwood Since stepping down from her partnership role at Russell McVeagh, Pip Greenwood has hardly slowed. In April she took a role as director of Westpac NZ and currently also serves as a director of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Spark NZ, the A2 Milk Company, and Vulcan Steel. However, as a high profile,
Ann Brennan head the legal team at the powerful Ministry of Business and Innovation and Employment (MBIE) the oft-criticised but nonetheless highly influencial civil service branch set up in 2012 to help power New Zealand’s economic development. A former senior counsel at Westpac and the Public Trust Ann Brennan is also a member of the Law
Powered by LawFuel – WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2019 — King & Spalding today announced that Lawrence Yanowitch, Thomas Knox, Charles Katz, and Jeremy Schropp have joined the firm as partners in its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group. The team focuses on mergers & acquisitions, emerging companies and venture capital and technology and outsourcing
Morrison & Foerster counts among its partner ranks some of the most talented and respected women attorneys in the legal profession. These are the women of MoFo — unparalleled leaders and innovators at the vanguard of emerging and vital practice areas. From impact investing, FinTech, privacy and data security, to intellectual property, consumer class actions, and investigations and white collar defense,
AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. 24, 2019 — Best Lawyers®, the oldest and most respected guide to the legal profession, is excited to announce its newest award initiative – Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. Using the same Purely Peer Review™ methodology as traditional Best Lawyers recognitions, Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch will target associates who have been in
Russell McVeagh have many illustrious alumni, some remembered some (best) forgotten, but perhaps the current leading alumni in the public mind is NZ First leader Winston Peters who this week was caught in a firefight with fellow former lawyer and National Party leader Simon Bridges. >> Here’s Your New Law Job – Litigation, InHouse, Small
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If They Didn’t Like What Was Happening Employees Were Told to ‘Get off the bus’ Anonymous* There are fresh revelations about the NZTA’s dubious work on developing new transport technologies, which details how NZTA officials under Fergus Gammie made astonishing and over the top promises about the potential for certain types of transport technologies they were wanting
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Powered by LawFuel – The 2019 winner of the FairWay Resolution Anne Scragg Scholarship is Nurit Zubery. Born and raised in Israel, Nurit studied law at Tel-Aviv University and worked as a lawyer in the areas of litigation, commercial and employment law, prior to moving to NZ in 1999 where she has owned and managed
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31 Nigel Hampton, QC Last Year – No. 35 Remaining in the same position, Nigel Hampton QC was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the law. His active legal career continues, capping an already successful and esteemed involvement in his representation of the families of the Pike River
The billable hour has been the brunt of criticism – mounting criticism – for many years. Blamed for its lack of flexibility, its alleged inefficiency and even for creating high burnout rates in the legal profession. But the billable hour remains. With lawyers required to bill from 1700 to 2500 hours years, the pressure to
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