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Queenstown Legal Ladies & The Law Firm Focused On Law Jobs for Locals

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Queenstown law firm Todd Walker ‘go local’ when it comes to employing staff – as shown by the recent female recruits to the burgeoning law firm. And the booming town continues to provide more opportunities for lawyers and other professionals as firms like Todd & Walker Law continue to grow.  Established by legal identity […]

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Drug User’s Choice: Save a Victim or Protect His Dealer? He Made the Wrong Choice

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARC HENRY JOHNSON was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for helping cover up a drug dealer’s narcotics offense by moving a woman’s body out of a Manhattan apartment where she had suffered

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NZ Law Firm Lane Neave’s Law Tech Boot Camp Lane Neave LawTech Bootcamp Provides Innovative Concepts

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Software technology for lawyers

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The groundbreaking LawTech Bootcamp partnership between some of University of Canterbury’s brightest students and top New Zealand law firm Lane Neave has produced some remarkable new concepts. Over 40 Law, Business and IT students joined forces with legal experts to create technology-based solutions to modern challenges in the legal sector during the incubator-style weekend

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The NZ Election: It’s Boot Camp Pledge Time . . Again

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The National Party’s ‘boot camp pledge’ to send up to 50 young offenders to a new training facility is something that has been tried – and failed – before according to critics. The proposed policy would see the serious young offenders sent to Waiouru military camp for training which, if they failed, would result

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Brazen Securities Fraud on Tribal Entities For Tens of Millions Results in 14 Year Jail Term

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JASON GALANIS was sentenced today by the Honorable Ronnie Abrams to 173 months for defrauding a Native American tribal entity and numerous pension fund investors of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance

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Record Revenues For Baker + McKenzie

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Firm reveals FY17 results Baker McKenzie, the leading global law firm, has announced revenues for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2017 (FY17) of $2.67 billion. In terms of constant currency, the most accurate measurement of the financial performance of any global professional services firm, Baker McKenzie’s revenues were up 5% compared to previous year.

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How to Shrink Contracts – So Business Booms

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “My utopia is two non-lawyers sitting over lunch, and reading the document, understanding it, and signing it.” My utopia may have a few more foreign language films and chocolate biscuits. But I’m with Shawn Burton, then Digital Solutions general counsel at GE Aviation, when he described how GE reduced several legal contracts to just

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Drowning in Fees – The One-Plus Billion in Contingency Fees for Two Rich Law Firms

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money men in law and legal billing software

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Contingency fees of $1.1 billion made to two law firms are a serious money question that has raised eyebrows in the US Congress, as well as some heat for the firms with the “regrettably excessive” fees paid. The row involves the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) over losses made in the period leading up

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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Rachel Lindsey, The Bachelorette and Lawyer

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] America is agog at The Bacherlorette, momentarily even forgetting The Donald.  But while everyone awaits the ultimate gift of ‘The Rose’, it is valuable to learn some lessons from Bacherlorette Rachel Lindsay, the lawyer. Just what ‘legal lessons’ has she taught us – and what did you not know about her legal career and

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How Lawyers Can Use Pinterest To Market to Millions (But Doing it This Way)

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Pinterest has been around for a while now, but has often been regarded as a pix site for womanly interests – diet, fashion, food and the like. But that would mean you are making a big mistake. Because late last year, Pinterest got more business-savvy and developed  business-specific accounts  and even a dedicated business support page.

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