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How 2 College Dropouts Just Raised $100 Million For Their AI-Powered Litigation Funding Business

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Peter Crossen – The growing list of litigation funding companies normally sees investment banking types setting up funds. But in the case of litigation startup Legalist the founder is a 23 year old Harvard dropout – just the sort of person to attract the attention of venture capital funders like Peter Thiel. Legalist founder Eva […]

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Which Are New Zealand’s Oldest Law Firms? – And Who Are The More Recent Contenders For Long Term Survival?

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Herald columnist Sasha Borissenko did a useful job of listing the oldest law firms in New Zealand, which include names reaching into the profession’s Jurassic period, well at least 150 years. She reported AUT Helen Dervan’s comments that firms if properly managed can survive in both upturns and downturns, which combined with the legal regulation

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Class Action Lawyer’s Big Day

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Christchurch lawyer Grant Cameron scored a major win with his ‘opt-out’ class action win this week, representing another major advance in class action litigation in New Zealand. His lawyers argued an opt out action would better protect the rights of class members, be more efficient, and allow better access to justice.  Southern Response opposed an opt

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Peter Jackson’s Big Week: Former Employee Convicted & A Billionaire Buy-In

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A Former Employee’s Conviction, A Jet Sale and a Billionaire Buy-in . . A Big Week For the Movie Mogul The conviction for fraud of Movie mogul Sir Peter Jackson’s former aviation company director Eugene John DeMarco  has been another unhappy aviation experience for the movie mogul, who recently sold his top-end private jet for

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Walmart’s New Law Job: The Company’s First Digital Citizenship Counsel

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Walmart Steps on Amazon’s Shoes as it Increases Its e-Commerce Position New legal roles emerge almost daily, as evidenced by retail giant Walmart’s recent appointment of former Amazon counsel Nuala O’Connor (pictured) as the company’s first Chief Counsel of Digital Citizenship. In essence, that means that Ms O’Connor, who comes with over 20 years’ experience

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Is This The PM’s ‘Go To’ QC?

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Robert Morgan*  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s crisis-de-jour is the sex scandal surrounding allegations around an alleged staffer in Labour HQ and the PM has once again sought the assistance of QC Maria Dew to help sort out the mess. You may recall that Bankside Chambers-based Ms Dew, an employment law specialist and Top 10 mediator

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Dress For (Legal) Success – Cavell Leitch Add A New Law Firm Initiative To The Growing List . .

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John Bowie* So here’s another initiative for your law firm to make in an age when making a difference in an age of sameness is all important. Cavell Leitch have taken the initiative following the initiative taken by some firms, like Australia’s McCabe Curwood. In a world of flexible work hours, hot desks, casual fridays,

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Why Allen & Overy and O’Melveny Fell Over . . And What It Says About US-UK Firms

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“Compelling synergies” between two Big Law firms not enough to cement merger deal Attempts by City-based legal giant Allen & Overy to enter the US legal market have collapsed after 18 months of talks with US – based O’Melveny & Myers  and evidences the structural differences between US and UK law firms. Allen & Overy

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