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
The movement of the Big Four accounting firms into the legal space continues strongly and none moreso than EY who are planning rapid expansion of their legal division. Bloomberg Big Law report that EY’s John Knox, Singapore-based and who became EY’s new global legal managed services leader in July, is working to grow the legal
In a surprise move, well known corporate lawyer and name partner at his own firm, Mark Lowndes, is to merge his practice with Tompkins Wake in Auckland. Lowndes team is set to join Tompkins Wake Tompkins on 1 September. Lowndes founder Mark Lowndes, Director Kerri Dewe, and Associate Reuben Payne will join Tompkins Wake’s Auckland
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14 Litigation Up-And-Comers – LawFuel’s Power List of Emerging Litigators A number of younger lawyers are looking to enter the Power List as New Zealand’s top litigation stars. LawFuel’s survey showed 14 of the top ‘ones to watch’ on the litigation front. Power Lawyers Write With Staedtler Pens [adrotate banner=”93″] Amanda Hyde The Top-Ranked Emerging
NBR are appealing the award of $269,000 costs award made in favour of former National Minister Steven Joyce, after he had won a defamation case against the newspaper involving a column written by Matthew Hooton and involving Tweets and apologies. Justice Pheroze Jagose heard the case last year and made the decision that Joyce had
