‘Londongrad’ is under threat with the Ukraine war and the pressure on ‘enabling’ lawyers who act for oligarchs Lawyers who act for oligarchs in Britain are under intense pressure from multiple quarters to take action against ‘Londongrad’, or the ‘London laundromat’ that is used to launder Russian money. Lord Carlile QC said in the House […]
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Kirkland & Ellis is a billion dollar revenue machine but it still faces issues attracting key legal talent – why?
Ross Hendy* The continued occupation of parliament’s grounds by anti-vaccine mandate protesters (and others) provides a unique problem for police: how to lawfully and legitimately remove the occupiers without making the situation worse. The Speaker of Parliament has authorised police to clear the grounds, which grants the operation legitimacy. But tactically the options are not as clear-cut.
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‘What pandemic?’ the legal services markets seem to say . . Legal services revenues have not been touched by the pandemic during the past year, according to figures in the UK that show a major growth in revenues for the sector – a fact that is also evident with the US legal sector. The UK’s
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The Power lady lawyer who has set up her own litigation power house law firm in London
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Trans-Tasman law firm Wotton + Kearney has made a lateral recruitment move on DLA taking a team of insurance lawyers, including partner Peter Leman, who has been an insurance litigator for 35 years and including Caroline Laband and Misha Henaghan. Latest law jobs here on the largest dedicated law jobs board Wotton + Kearney has
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Why the Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy employment case matters Jack Heinemann* Two high-profile University of Auckland academics raised important questions about academic freedom with their complaint to the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) that their employer had failed its duty of care to them. Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles and Professor Shaun Hendy have become well known
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Buckinham Palace has removed the Duke of York’s royal privileges, but the recent US Court ruling leaves Prince Andrew in a pile of trouble over the Epstein-related legal proceedings, even as Epstein’s former lawyer Alan Dershowitz continues to push a defense similar to that tried by Epstein before his death. Prince Andrew’s motion was an
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The salaries may be eye-popping and the addition to their CVs prestigious, but for midnight-oil burning junior lawyers working at Biglaw firms the deal is largely a ‘Faustian pact’, as lawyers continue to leave elite law firms despite the money and prestige . . but the deals and work continues to flow. UK legal services
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The New Zealand Power Lawyers missing from the Herald’s ‘Power List’
The Herald’s Shamelessly Appropriated ‘Power List’ . . And The Missing Power Lawyers Read More »
