Lawyer of the Year SponsorsLexisNexis New Zealand[adrotate banner=”140″]Staedtler – The pens successful lawyers useCassie Nicholson – Legal First ResponderGovernment legal counsel Cassie Nicholson, perhaps the key legal figure behind the mountain of legal work required to be climbed during the Covid-19 pandemic, is LawFuel’s Lawyer of the Year for 2020.Drafting unprecedented, urgent legislation and legislative […]
The investigation into potential criminal charges against Donald Trump went up a notch this week as US Attorneys appointed Paul Weiss lawyer (on leave for the purpose) to assist in the investigation of Trump and his family and businesses.Pomerantz is an experienced white collar crime attorney. He had established a small criminal defense practice before
Why are litigators departing from Meredith Connell?
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Three candidates left in the race to succeed Charlie Jacobs as Linklaters’ senior partnerIt looks like Magic Circle law firm Linklaters could shortly have a woman senior partner as the trend towards female lawyers heading major law firms continues.Linklaters have seen the departure of the only male contender for the top role for the person
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The Pandemic does not appear to have harmed too many Big Law FirmsBig 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 remain steady
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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.Add to
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It’s an embarrassment for the privacy law firm if true. And we think it may be.A hacker claims to have stolen files belonging to the Big Law firm Jones Day – an expert in data privacy and cyber security law – and posted many of them on the dark web.Jones Day is the tenth largest
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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. But
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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) who
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 2000
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