Why has New Zealand’s Judicial processes ranked so badly in a recent World Bank report? Economist Dr Bryce Wilkinson examines the reasons There are many things that only government can do. When it fails to excel, no one else can step in. We are all worse off. Immigration policy is one example. The reports of […]
The endless articles about AI would have you thinking that it is top-of-mind for lawyers and law firm CEOs, but not so. The Number One issue – at least according to a UK survey, is cyber security. The HSBC UK survey was conducted with The Lawyer magazine, showing thast 70 per cent of law firms saw cyber-security
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Russell McVeagh has acted for global private equity firm The Riverside Company on all aspects of its majority investment in Hiway Group. Hiway Group is a market-leading provider of road construction and maintenance, geotechnical and environmental services in New Zealand and Australia. The Russell McVeagh team worked closely with Riverside partners Steven Spiteri and Nick
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Kansas City, Mo. (September 24, 2018) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has named Thomas Burns as its chief financial officer (CFO), based in the firm’s Kansas City office. Burns, a financial executive with more than 25 years of experience across multiple industries, will be responsible for Littler’s accounting strategy and
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Russell McVeagh is investigating a further complaint relating to “inappropriate comments” made by an unnamed partner while at a client event and under the influence of alcohol. In a press release issued today, the firm which has been at the centre of a major sexual harassment complaint said that an independent investigation was under way.
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Skadden ranked in the top 2 percent of the Most Innovative Law Firms, according to BTI Consulting Group’s 2019 Legal Innovation and Technology Outlook. Based on interviews with hundreds of top legal decision makers in the U.S. at companies with $1 billion or more in revenue, the report identified firms that “embrace innovation and technology
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The Former Site of Zum Schneider in Montauk to Open as Vincent’s Sel Rrose Oyster Bar and Restaurant in 2019 New York, September 13, 2018 – The law firm Warshaw Burstein, LLP represented the owner of the New York City restaurant Sel Rrose in purchasing the Montauk building that formerly housed a branch of Zum Schneider. Sel Rrose will
The stories of Kim Kardashian going to law school have been doing the rounds, including in our previous post on the matter. But is she actually going to law school, as husband Kanye West hinted in an interview last weekend? Or not? Her efforts to raise awareness about prison reform have been has been using
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The ability of new technology to increase the lawyers’ efficiency continues to expand along with the technology driven by new AI apps. But now, with the introduction into New Zealand of the Dragon ‘Anywhere’ app, there is a true ability for an increasingly mobile legal workforce to maintain and increase their productivity with the power
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A new report on racial and gender in the law bias in the US has demonstrated how rampant the bias is and why efforts to control it are failing. The report, “You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Interrupting Racial & Gender Bias in the Legal Profession,” is based on a 2016 survey of 2,827
