The retired Supreme Court judge would be the second New Zealander on Hong Kong’s overseas bench. Critics say the seat comes with a reputational invoice. Move over, dairy and manuka honey. New Zealand’s newest export to China is the retired Supreme Court judge, shipped to Hong Kong where demand for respectable common-law names has never
Roy Kim may not have set out to build a legal AI tool with a grand vision to take on the world, after all he remains a practising lawyer in Australia, but his hands-on work has meant he believes his tool may be more useful than the grand visionaries.
Atto, which launches in Sydney on Thursday 22 October, is pitching software built for individual practice areas, designed by people who have actually done the work.
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The question as to how much a top lawyer should charge for an hourly fee is a time-honored one that no amount of argument can settle easily – but a Californian judge has done so in a case involving a major settlement with Google. US District Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of
The Client may have a Chatbot, but the Lawyer has an Invoice From Brisbane to Manhattan to Leeds, lawyers are rewriting engagement terms for clients who bring their own AI. The bill is the least of the clients’ worries. For three years the profession has fretted about what AI will do to lawyers but perhaps
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Specialist law firms are being priced like businesses rather than partnerships, which should worry partners as much as it excites them. Private equity has spent a decade buying football clubs but the investors are now also targeting law firms, having taken an interest in a sports law boutique that counts both Manchester United and Manchester
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A Bay of Plenty financial services business managing billions in assets is targeting America’s sporting and entertainment elite, with US lawyers providing the introductions. But protecting celebrity fortunes from litigation is a legal business with some serious complications. From the Bay of Plenty to Beverly Hills is not the usual career trajectory for a New
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The people who programme New Zealand radio stations The Rock and More FM now answer to a Melbourne sports radio company and the law firm handling the deal is one that many big law Australian law firms spent years underestimating.
HWLE Lawyers, still better known as HWL Ebsworth, advised CBA on the senior debt facility supporting SEG’s acquisition of MediaWorks, a deal completed on 1 October.
New Role >>Senior Legal Counsel – Challenging, Interesting, TransTasman Commercial Role – 6-12 Years PQE Read the statute and New Zealand’s Attorney-General picks the senior judges. Read the protocol and the Chief Justice decides who gets on the list. Roger Partridge is stirring the judicial pot again. Ask most lawyers who appoints New Zealand’s senior
Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest-grossing law firm has decided that publishing its extraordinary profits is no longer particularly helpful, after years at the top of the rankings.
Kirkland has decided to stop voluntarily disclosing its financial performance to The American Lawyer, ending its participation in the annual financial reporting exercise that has become BigLaw’s favourite competitive sport.
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For one glorious Thursday, the UK Bar rankings read like client feedback instead of a Christmas card. Legalease blames an upload glitch. The Bar blames nobody in public and everybody on WhatsApp. Legal directories run on an arrangement a cartel would find a little embarrassing. Chambers and firms submit forests of self-praise, nominate referees chosen
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