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How The Pandemic Helped Big Law Giant Baker McKenzie Shatter The $3 Billion Barrier

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Baker McKenzie has broken through the $3 billion revenue barrier.  Already the largest law firm in the United States by lawyer head count, it has announced revenue increases of 7.8 per cent in its latest report.   The revenue growth makes Baker McKenzie similar to other law firms that have experienced double-digit growth helped in […]

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Women Storm The LawFuel Power List of New Zealand’s Most Powerful Lawyers

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More women than ever make the top 50 most powerful and influential lawyers in New Zealand on LawFuel list The top fifty in LawFuel Power Law list of the country’s most influencial lawyers in the Power List includes more women than ever, with 23 women making the list, the highest in the five years’ the

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An Embarrassment of Judges: The Wanaka Escapees See Red Faces And Anger All Round

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>> Latest law jobs on the LawFuel Network – In-House, Law Firms, NGOs – Daily Updates Lawyer Hannah Rawnsley actions in fleeing to Wanaka with partner William Willis has embarrassed at least two District Court judges, being her partner’s mother and the co-owner of the Wanaka house, District Court Judge Josephine Bouchier. fled alert level

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Prince Andrew’s Star Lawyer – The Hollywood Celebrity Lawyer Prince Andrew Is Using For His Legal Drama?

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“. . it’s never a good day for my clients if they need to talk to me” When it comes to choosing a celebrity lawyer, Prince Andrew has gone to the top shelf with his selection of the Hollywood lawyer he is using to represent him in his impending civil lawsuit over sexual assault allegations.

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Mishcon de Reya’s Latest Major Money Move: Litigation Funding

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London lawyers Mishcon de Reya, already preparing for a stock exchange float, has started a litigation funding division with Harbour Litigation Funders, one of the largest litigation funding operations in the world. A report in the FInancial Times says that Harbour is to invest £150m in the new fund which will see Mischon de Reya

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Why Does The Law Society Stand Silent On An Important Issue of Judicial Conduct?

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Karl du Fresne* The Dominion Post’s Marty Sharpe reports this week that human rights lawyer Tony Ellis has asked Attorney-General David Parker and Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann to take action over two senior judges who intervened in a Family Court case that didn’t involve them. Readers of this blog will be aware of the background to this

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Surprise Resignation of Recently Appointed Boies Schiller Deputy Chair

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Boies Schiller’s Deputy Chair Natasha Harrison is to leave the firm following disclosure of a memo sent around the troubled firm recently with more than one third of the partners having left in the past year. Harrison was appointed to the role Her departure follows the departure at the end of last year of then

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The Highest Paid In-House Counsel List – But How Should Their Pay Be Ranked?

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And the gender diversity issue that persists with In-House Counsel too Pandemic or not, 2020 was generally a very good year for partners at Big Law, but General Counsel in the US Fortune 1000 companies ‘suffered’ a relatively flat years according to Corporate Counsel’s recently released 2021 GC Compensation Survey. The average salaries were in the

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