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NZ IP Lawyer Says COVID-9 Sees Surge in Trade Mark Innovation

Widespread redundancies and the need for businesses to re-invent themselves in a Covid-19 New Zealand has led to a spike in trade mark applications from Kiwi businesses particularly in Auckland, a leading local trade mark law firm reports. Speaking at the opening of Zone Law’s new offices in the newly refurbished St Kevin’s Arcade, on […]

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Meredith Connell Grows Litigation Expertise With Boutique Merger

Meredith Connell has expanded its litigation practice with the recent merger with Auckland-based Prestige Law. Prestige Law specialises in cross-border and cross-cultural litigation and disputes resolution, “serving a demographic of New Zealand that is in desperate need of high-quality legal services,” the firm said in a statement. Meredith Connell has been growing its presence as

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Ghislaine Maxwell Arrest Sees Prince Andrew Links To Obscure Lobbying Firm Propelled to prominence By A Kiwi Ambassador

Lawyers for Prince Andrew have increased their preparedness for their client’s potential problems by speaking with a Washington DC lobbyist whose career was propelled by a New Zealand ambassador into a world of often insalubrious clients, according to The New York Times.  London lawyers Blackfords are representing the prince in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, spoke with Washington

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Australia’s Most Female-Friendly Law Firm

Moray & Agnew the most female-friendly law firm in Australia according to a report in the Australian Financial Review. The insurance specialists promoted five partners and six senior associates the AFR reports. The firm’s managing partner Geoff Connellan told the newspaper: “We’re promoting the best lawyers for the job and it just happens that this year – and other

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Less Money For NQ Lawyers in London . . But There Is A Silver Lining

Sad but true. Newly qualified lawyers in the UK are up for more pay cuts as firms like Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, Slaughter and May and Hogan Lovells have all announced salary reductions for solicitors qualifying this autumn, while the jury is out for firms like Linklaters who are still in pay discussions. The

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Boies Law Firm Upheaval Continues With 4 Partner Defection to King & Spalding

Boies Schiller Law

The turmoil at Boies Schiller Flexner has continued with four litigators leaving for King & Spalding including a former firm exeutive committee member. King & Spalding had recruited four more complex commercial litigators from Boies Schiller Flexner, including one who had served on its executive committee. This now amounts to 35 partners who have left

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The Delicate but Essential Business of Legal PR: Six Things CEOs Need to Know

Kate Alexander* In the course of nearly 30 years of crisis work and issues management, we have successfully collaborated with numerous lawyers and legal advisers to help our clients communicate with media, staff, customers and other stakeholders. In our experience, sound legal advice is worth its weight in gold, and the objectives of a company’s

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Law Firm Ordered To Pay Half Million Dollars & Costs In Negligence Claim

Blenheim law firm Gascoigne Wicks has been ordered to pay half a million dollars to the former partner of a client after negligent advice leading to their separation. Justice Susan Thomas ruled in a High Co urtdecision issued this month that the firm’s failure to give good advice had resulted in the loss of relationship

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