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Bell Gully’s SKYCity Fire War Room To Manage Fletchers’ Position

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The devastating SkyCity convention centre fire has Fletcher Construction’s lawyers, Bell Gully, in a war room setting dealing with the potential fallout from the catastrophic inferno. Amid reports that insurers could potentially refuse to pay out if the fire was caused by recklessness or “gross irresponsibility” The SkyCity Convention Centre fire has left Fletcher Contruction’s […]

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Are Lawyers Saying Sayonara To Lockstep Compensation?

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We reported last week about the aggressive stance taken by Cleary Gottlieb over the departure of a senior legal team to Freshfields. We now see The Lawyer has written about the ‘doomed’ lockstep model, with New York legal recruiter Mark Rosen, chairman of Mark Bruce International, predicting the end of the lockstep era. The reason

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Who Is The Lawyer Defending Grace Millane’s Alleged Killer?

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Auckland criminal lawyer Ian Brookie has hit the headlines with his latest case, defending the alleged murderer of English backpacker Grace Millane. Named by LawFuel as one of the up-and-coming litigation stars, Brookie is a former Meredith Connell prosecutor, where he worked for a period with Rudd Watts and Stone (now MinterEllisonRuddWatts) until establishing criminal

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Litigation Law Firm Goes The Crypto Currency Payment Route

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Law firms are carefully examining the ethical and risk issues attaching to accepting crypto currency payments The ‘feared’ litigation juggernaut Quinn Emanuel has indicated it will take crypto currency payments after examining the options of doing so. The firm that is regarded by some as the firm most lawyers are afraid of seeing on the

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The Bee in Becroft’s Bonnet: Where Are The Lawyers?

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The busiest court in the country is set in a location without its own criminal law firm, relying instead on the local community law centre. Mangere has what Childrens’ Commissioner Andrew Becroft says is a ‘huge need’ for lawyers, but there is no firm in the area.Māngere Community Law Centre was the brainchild of a group

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Bank This – Big Money For the Former Wellington Solicitor

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Former Wellington solicitor David McLean made a profitable move to his current employer, Westpac Bank, and has now also seen his remuneration rise to $2.455 million. The increase for Power List member McLean has seen an increase of over $14,500 according to the Bank’s recently released financial reports and despite his parent bank’s chief executive

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Cleary’s Firing of Corporate Team Shows Increasing Aggression in Market for Legal Talent

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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s firing of a four partner team that planned to move to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a further example of the increasing aggression for legal talent shown in the competitive corporate legal market in the US. It has also provoked some criticism for the impact it will have on Clearys – and potentially

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How – and Why – The NZ Transport Agency Sidelined Its Lawyers

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If They Didn’t Like What Was Happening Employees Were Told to ‘Get off the bus’ Anonymous* There are fresh revelations about the NZTA’s dubious work on developing new transport technologies, which details how NZTA officials under Fergus Gammie made astonishing and over the top promises about the potential for certain types of transport technologies they were wanting

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