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How Graeme Todd’s MidLife Law Career Leap of Faith Paid Off

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] When Graeme Todd started his Queenstown-based law firm seven years ago in a move his wife thought was inspired more from a mid-life crisis than proper consideration. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After all, he had enjoyed a successful career over almost three decades working in a large firm that had served him well. But concerns over firm strategy […]

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Are Baby Boomer Law Partners Under Performing and Coasting To Retirement?

We read and hear a lot about the over-worked and usually over-compensated law partner, but Altman Weil’s latest survey of the US market shows that many partners are slacking – coasting their way to retirement in fact. The survey, the 10th undertaken in the US market, provided a startling conclusion: that 40 per cent of

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8 Women Who Fought (Or Still Fight) Sexual Harassment in the Law Profession

Jan McCreal* The #MeToo campaign that has caught the law profession in its net has seen a number of women lawyers – some practising still, some not, who have spoken up about their own experiences in being harassed in the workplace. A report conducted jointly by the TUC and Everyday Sexism found that 52% of women had

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3 Ways You Can Get Surefire Success With Your Legal Content

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For those in the marketing business, the key to the traffic kingdom these days is content – more specifically ‘content marketing’. But for lawyers seeking to avail themselves of some marketing muscle, as well as being able to explain often complex legal issues, the question is – “How?” And as JD Supra’s Adrian Lurrsen explains

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3 Surefire Ways Lawyers Can Use Storytelling To Create Greater Impact with Legal Content

When I hear a mainstream marketing mantra make its way into the legal marketplace, I often find myself wondering: how, exactly, will that happen? What will it look like, on the ground? In this case, how will lawyers, their practice groups, and law firms incorporate storytelling into a very particular marketing discipline characterized by risk aversion,

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Jim Farmer Weighs In On MacLennan ‘Investigation’ Calling For Law Society Committee to Be Reined In

Jim Farmer QC has heavily criticised the Law Society’s standards committee for their prosecution of barrister Catriona MacLennan, saying he “earnestly hoped that the Law Society will quickly rein in its National Standards Committee.” Ms MacLennan, who has publicly pronounced that she would ‘not be silenced’ on the matter’, criticised the comments and decision by

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#Metoo And Fixing Gender-Hostile Workplaces Conceals a “Second Generation” Problem

Australian Sex discrimination expert Dr Karen O’Connell believes gender-hostile workplaces are not being dealt with properly. The issue of sexual discrimination and harassment has been reaching a crescendo recently with the global #Metoo campaign, with a range of harassment issues in the United States, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and elsewhere. Dr O’Connell, speaking to

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