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Defending Epstein: The Lawyers Defending Jeffrey Epstein (And The Arraignment Stumble)

Headlining, LawStars, New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / July 10, 2019

The jet-setting Epstein, 66, was arrested Saturday when his private jet landed at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, following which he was held in jail over the weekend as he awaited his first court appearance. Epstein’s multiple homes in Europe, the Virgin Islands, Manhattan and elsewhere, as well a his two jets and fleet […]

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Top Mediator Sets Up Singapore Chambers

Headlining NZ, LawStars, NZ Power Law Firms, Press Releases / July 8, 2019

Leading Mediator Geoff Sharp has been involved in setting up mediation chambers in Singapore involving a British QC and Singaporean Maxwell Mediators , not to be confused with Singapore’s Maxwell Chambers which bills itself as the world’s first dispute resolution complex, is intended to introduce a chambers that involves the three jurisdictions in what Geoff

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Former Baker + McKenzie Boss Rises To New Role

Featured, LawStars, Lawyers / July 5, 2019

Former Baker + McKenzie chief Christine Lagarde will be the first non-economist and woman to hold the role as president of the European Central Bank. Ms Lagarde was chairwoman of Baker & McKenzie and has since held cabinet positions in the French government and been managing director of the International Monetary Fund sincve 2011. The

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The Two Women Who Put a Billion Dollar Law Firm Together

Headlining, Law Firms, LawStars / June 25, 2019

Women lawyers may have their challenges in the law, but when they rise to them there can be an unstoppable momentum, such as the two power lawyers who lead the Big Law merger of Bryan Cave and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP). The combined firm now has a turnover of $1 billion with 560 partners across

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Craig Saga Hits Rocky Seas – Reviving the Ghosts of Saxmere Past

Headlining NZ, LawStars, New Zealand Law News, NZ Top in LawFuel / June 19, 2019

John Bowie – It may have been inevitable that a saga like the Colin (“Enough is enough”) saga would entangle the judicial system itself. And now, as the Herald reveals today in its story ‘The judge, the QC and the holiday’, it sees the cosy relationship between bar and bench once again hitting the rocky

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Alan Dershowitz Denies Sexual Misconduct Allegations & Accuses David Boies & Firm of Making False Accusations

Featured, LawStars, Lawyers, Press Releases / June 10, 2019

Press release from Alan Dershowitz reported on NewsMax: “David Boies, his law firm, and his client Virginia Giuffre, have falsely accused me of sexual misconduct with a woman I have never met. Giuffre, represented by the Boies firm, is now suing me for truthfully denying the false charge. Among the most important witnesses proving that

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Freeing Pell: The Barrister With the Case of His Career

Australia Law News, Headlining, Headlining NZ, LawStars / June 6, 2019

In a career of high publicity and renown, Melbourne barrister Bret Walker SC has the case of his career on his hands with the attempt to free former Cardinal George Pell from prison. But the Court are listening, along with the rest of Australia and legal world. Walker’s attempts to persuade the Appeal Court that

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Antonia Kidman: Six Children & Two Legal Jobs. “It gets stressful”

Australia Law News, LawStars, New Zealand Law News / May 7, 2019

The younger sister of actress Nicole Kidman has recently qualified as a lawyer, interning for two law firms and raising six children at the same time. The Singapore-based Kidman, 48, was talking on a Sydney television show when she said she was also making one day’s appearance a week in court with a criminal lawyer

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From Catwalk Modelling to Judicial Robes – The Latest High Court Judge’s Colourful Career

LawStars, New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / April 25, 2019

Auckland barrister Tracey Walker, this week appointed to the High Court bench, has seen a lot since her days catwalk modelling during legal studies, to working with media lawyer Willie Akel in the Kim Dotcom defence A media law expert herself, Justice Walker intended to become a journalist before becoming a lawyer. “I would have

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Kardashian “Aces” Torts

Featured, LawStars / April 19, 2019

Kim Kardashian has bragged of ‘acing her Torts’ exam as the nation absorbs the news of having her as a lawyer. On Wednesday, the 38-year-old shared the exciting news about her torts test with a mere 60 million social media followers. The Twitter post was complete with the necessary emojis. The “Keeping Up with the

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