The debacle surrounding the firing of US attorney for New York’s Southern District has seen a new entrant in the spotlight: white collar crime specialist Audrey Strauss whose appointment has continued to shine a light upon the District’s ‘important cases’.Ms Strauss took over from Geoffrey Berman on an inetrim basis, which has confounded many observers, […]
The turmoil at Boies Schiller Flexner has continued with four litigators leaving for King & Spalding including a former firm exeutive committee member.King & Spalding had recruited four more complex commercial litigators from Boies Schiller Flexner, including one who had served on its executive committee. This now amounts to 35 partners who have left the
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The COVID crisis has bitten law firms hard in some areas with two major law firms – Meredith Connell and Lane Neave – shedding staff.Lane Neave has confirmed that 12 per cent of its staff, 21 lawyers and others, have been released as a result of the pandemic.In large part the downturn in work at
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The move to Zoom meetings, online courts and the other online, at-home work for lawyers has created a range of new issues, not the least being what lawyers’ online meetings sees them wearing and – but even more disconcerting – security issues involving problems with confidential information and privacy that should concern lawyers.The federal judiciary
AJ Park are to buy their competitor Baldwins in a $7.4 million deal.AJ Park are owned by legal services giant IPH Limited (ASX: IPH) and will see IPH pay approximately $7.4 million for the firm, including a deferred consideration of approximately $400,000.The deal will see AJ Park IP acquire Baldwins and the benefit of Baldwin’s
Auckland lawyer Ana Lenard, who came to New Zealand from war-torn Yugoslavia in 1994, has been awarded the New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin scholarship for outstanding women lawyers.The award honours Ethel Benjamin, New Zealand’s first woman barrister and solicitor, who was admitted to the bar in 1897. For over 20 years, through these awards, the
As Prince Andrew faces increasing pressure to speak with the American authorities regarding his links with deceased and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein his law firm has provided a firm rebuttal of claims of ‘zero co-operation’ with US authorities.So who are the Duke of York’s lawyers?His law firm, a six partner firm specialising in criminal work,
Dunedin lawyer Jenny Beck had called a staff meeting, post-lockdown, to discuss a matter with her 14 employees.The matter at hand was something none had expected – a one thousand dollar handout to each of them in a surprise move that had some in tears.There was one caveat coming with the handout. The money had
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Allen & Overy is one of the largest law firms in the world and managing an organization of that size when something like COVID struck was a major upheaval and it struck at a time when the firm was grappling with some significant, strategic issues.With over USD2 billion in revenues, 5500 staff and with 44
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