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Big Law Firm ‘Pandemic Profits’ Continue With Strong Growth

The Pandemic does not appear to have harmed too many Big Law Firms Big Law continues to report large ‘pandemic profit’ growth, as Cooleys and White & Case report double digit growth in 2020, while Hogan Lovells reports profits per partner (PPP) jumping 30 per cent from 2019 to 2020. The pandemic has seen revenues […]

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How Much Has The Dotcom Case Cost The New Zealand Taxpayer? Take A Guess

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How does $7 Million Sound? It’s taken nine years of battling, but the cost to the New Zealand taxpayer of the claims against Kim Dotcom and Megaupload have consumed 40,500 hours of work by Crown lawyers and $3.4 million in ‘ancillary costs” according to documents requested by the NZ Herald under the Official Information Act.

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Is Jacinda Ardern’s ‘Hate Speech’ Law Entrenching Racism Rather Than Eliminating It?

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A recent Spectator column identified what Karl du Fresne says was “inflammatory rhetoric from an ideologically driven Human Rights Commission and a handful of vociferous immigrant activists . . ”  Karl du Fresne – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern promised, on the night of her general election triumph last October, to govern for all New Zealanders.

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Does The Multi-Billion Dollar Smartmatic Defamation Brief Against FOX & Others Show Some Legal Power Writing?

If lawyers needed to read a brief written with a certain hard-biting verve then they need look no further than the Smartmatic defamation case filed against Fox News, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell. Smartmatic are an election tech company, based in Florida and run by Antonio Mugica (pictured below)

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Donald Trump’s New ‘Power Lawyer’ You May Not Have Heard Of . . But For Bill Cosby

Taking on work for Donald Trump for his record, second impeachment trial is not necessarily the sort of brief many lawyers would scramble for, but for Montgomery Country’s former top prosecutor it plays to an infamy as a power lawyer that doubtless suits him just fine. But for Bruce Castor, 59, Montgomery County prosecutor from

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Who Said 2020 Was Bad For Lawyers? World’s Highest Grossing Law Firm Set To Surge to $5bn on

The world’s highest-grossing law firm, Power Law firm Kirkland & Ellis, is on track to post record annual revenue of ~$5 billion for the 12 months ending in January, according to the Financial Times. Despite a sagging global economy, Kirkland & Ellis has surged with growth in its three main areas of operation —private equity, restructuring, and

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Does Eric Watson Have Russell McVeagh & Others In His Netflix Sights?

A recent Stuff article on former high flyer Eric Watson and his move from Pentonville Prison to some sunny place in Europe has him now planning his revenge, it would see, with a tell-all book and television series on his various grudges. Just how these tales will unfold and via what format in the Netflix

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The Former Regional Lawyer Who Has Become a Power Lawyer and Joined The Sunday Times Rich List

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The chief executive of law firm Knights has sold a £61.2m (US84 million) stake in the company after it underwent a secondary placing and has already joined the Sunday Times Rich List as one of Britain’s new Power Lawyers. The firm, originally back by Dragons’ Den principal James Caan (pictured left) in 2013, as we

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Fraud Inquiry Increases Pressure on Donald Trump and His Company

Donald Trump’s Company – and Donald Trump personally – has been delivered yet another blow after a New York judge has ordered the production of documents relating to the potential misstatement of assets in order to secure loans and tax benefits. The same judge, Arthur Engoron of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, had earlier

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