Dame Patsy Reddy leaves her role as Governor General today, looking towards life with a new dog and a refreshed garden . . but the power lawyer remains a figure of influence within the profession. Dame Patsy, sitting at no. 2 position on LawFuel’s 2021 Power List, has been Governor General for five years and […]
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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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>> 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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“. . 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.
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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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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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 James Hardie class action settlement left questions about litigation funding
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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The American Lawyer midlevel associate rankings show the ‘most satisfying’ law firms to work for . . but law firm jobs satisfaction was just one factor that featured The latest American Lawyer midlevel associate rankings have McDermott Will & Emory taking the top spot in the rankings, completed by 3700 mid-level associates – being associates
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