The lawyer who defended Charles Manson has died at age 100. Irving Kanarek (pictured above in 1970) defended the cult killer Manson whose macabre killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others created international headlines and intrigue. The national spotlight that focused on Kanarek made his disruptive circus of courtroom tactics almost as fascinating as […]
The startling fall from grace of blue-blooded Melbourne SC Norman O’Bryan, a barrister of such repute that he held the Order of Australia, has rocked both the local Melbourne bar and reverberated about the Australian profession. O’Bryan could barely have had a more distinguished legal pedigree. Both his grandfather and father were both Supreme Court
Listing law firms was an exciting – and profitable – game for some time but the pandemic has seen millions of pounds disappear from the value of the UK listed firms, according to recent research. The Law Gazette reports that Like-for-like comparisons to six months ago – when coronavirus was on the eve of locking
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Former Big Law Chief Executive Alastair Carruthers is one of the ‘brains’ returning to New Zealand as a result – in part – of the COVID pandemic and establishing a new business at a time when returning ‘brain gainers’ may help New Zealand dig its way out of the COVID crisis. A man with a
Partners at US law firms are taking a greater share of the work from junior colleagues during the pandemic, research suggests, as solicitors adopt an ‘eat-what-you-kill’ mindset. Thomson Reuters’ ‘peer monitor index’ – which evaluates the performance of the largest US law firms based on demand, productivity, rates, direct expenses and overheads – found that the
Sentencing the worst mass murderer in New Zealand history places global focus on Justice Cameron Mander. But he’s been in that territory before, in the lesser but still high profile Kim Dotcom case when he provided legal advice on the 2012 raid on the tycoon’s mansion. However the sentencing of Brenton Tarrant in respect of
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Working from a partner’s office is hardly something most younger lawyers would dare attempt, but it is part of the new, COVID norm apparently. Increasingly there has been debate about just how sacrosanct the partner’s office should be. As Law.com reported, a law firm partner’s identity and bravado can be shaped by many things, including
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The #Metoo movement seems to follow Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer like a very bad smell, but the latest issue involves a Freshfield’s woman partner whose conduct in respect of the investigation of a rape complaint involving a UBS bank employee has come under scrutiny from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). The Financial Times reported that Freshfields employment
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The well publicised demand for family lawyers after the lockdown last time has simply accelerated a problem that existed some years ago, according to family lawyers. Reports indicate that separation enquiries, among others, have exploded as relationships have buckled under lockdown pressures. As firms have moved away from providing family law services, combined with a
The anointment of Kamala Harris as Vice Presidential nominee for presidential candidate Joe Biden sees her husband, a partner at DLA Piper, as the potential, first ever male ‘Second Lady’ at the White House. Douglas Emhoff, 55 has a quarter century legal experience, working as partner at the Century City office of DLA Piper, where
