Law Firms

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Law firms love compliments for their professionalism, gender neutrality, Rainbow ticks and their efforts to save the planet – but now Anderson Lloyd have also become a ‘Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace’, earning the support and hearty congratulations from the Canterbury Breastfeeding Advocacy Service. Anderson Lloyd are believed to the first firm in New Zealand to be […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Kate Harveston* If someone needs legal assistance, they’re not likely to turn to just anyone for help. When the time comes to hire a lawyer, just about everyone is going to look for a law firm that they genuinely trust. They want to know they’re putting their future in the hands of someone who cares

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The recent refusal by the Commerce Commission to permit the merger between Vero and Tower Insurance is an example of the key decisions being made by one of New Zealand’s most important regulatory bodies.  It also demonstrates the need for lawyers to be ‘on their game’ when it comes to assessing the criteria that apply

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Newly appointed High Court Judge Gerardus van Bohemen may have one of the more colourful careers already behind him – from fights with the Russians in New York, to police drug raids in Wellington.  The man who has been partner in three law firms and had multiple re-entry trips back to Foreign Affairs will

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Peter Watts QC, one of New Zealand’s leading barristers and legal academics, is joining Auckland’s Bankside Chambers in full time practice. A Power Lawyer on LawFuel’s Power Lawyer list, Mr Watts is also a Visiting Professor at Oxford University, where he teaches each year with such celebrated lawyers as retired judge Lord Hoffman. Peter Watts

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HAENA PARK was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to three years in prison for defrauding investors of more than $23 million.  PARK pled guilty on January 13, 2017, to one count of commodities fraud before U.S. District