In a surprise move, well known corporate lawyer and name partner at his own firm, Mark Lowndes, is to merge his practice with Tompkins Wake in Auckland. Lowndes team is set to join Tompkins Wake Tompkins on 1 September. Lowndes founder Mark Lowndes, Director Kerri Dewe, and Associate Reuben Payne will join Tompkins Wake’s Auckland […]
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As pressures mount on in-house legal departments and their in-house lawyers to meet the pressures corporates face, a new EY survey shows the varied benefits that accrue to the in-house legal departments by using external lawyers. A report from EY Law taken from over 1000 legal departments shows that some are using external legal managed
The Commercial Bay development has attracted some of the major law firms to its waterfront location this month. Currently Chapman Tripp are moving into the space, where PriceWaterhouseCoopers are anchor tenant in a building that is more than 90 per cent leased but which has been seriously delayed by construction problems and then the pandemic.
Its a case of a nasty divorce that just got nastier disaffected litigant Allison Huynh alleged that Big Law firm Morrison & Foerster had been a “willing architect and facilitator” in a nefarious scheme to cheat her and her children out of former husband and Google code writer Scott Hassan’s share of a fortune. Hassan
Bristol-based TLT Solicitors law firm has closed in on the £100m mark in a year when the law firm elected its first new managing partner in almost two decades, according to a report in InsiderMedia. In the year to 30 April 2020, revenue climbed by 13 per cent rise from £87.6m to £98.8m. Growth across
J Lo and husband Alex Rodriguez have hired Big Law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in their bid to buy Major League Baseball’s New York Mets, having beaten out the hedge fund mogul Steven Cohen who is now looking for separate representation to buy the Mets. Wachtell is representing Rodriguez, a former New York
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The exodus of transactional lawyers from Irell & Manella continues with two corporate partners joining Reed Smith. Irell & Manella is abandoning most of its transactional practices in an effort to focus solely on high-value litigation work, in a move that’s lead to the departure of a number of partners, including two more this week.
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NBR are appealing the award of $269,000 costs award made in favour of former National Minister Steven Joyce, after he had won a defamation case against the newspaper involving a column written by Matthew Hooton and involving Tweets and apologies. Justice Pheroze Jagose heard the case last year and made the decision that Joyce had
The fact that lawyers may be ignored by more tech-savvy industries, leaving them out in the cold, is something that has been identified as a real threat by a legaltech expert this week. Speaking a an online event, Rick Seabrook, (left) founder of law firm technology consultancy Panoram, said he was unsure whether the legal
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