GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The NBA’s decision to impose $30 million in fines and strip the Los Angeles Clippers of five future first-round draft picks sends a powerful message to the league’s other teams: There are consequences for trying to circumvent the salary cap to land or retain a star player, says a New York sports law […]
Highly regarded litigator, Cecil Hanafin, has joined Anthony Harper as a partner in the litigation team. Hanafin has almost 20 years’ experience, including more than a decade at New Zealand law firms and, most recently, five years as a barrister at Canterbury Chambers, one of the leading sets of independent barristers’ chambers in the South Island.
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Ratepayers across Tauranga are picking up a legal and professional advice bill exceeding $1.2 million in the aftermath of the fatal Mauao (Mount Maunganui) landslide, highlighting the mounting exposure and legal complexities facing local authorities in disaster response.
Figures presented to the Tauranga City Council (TCC) reveal that responding to the tragic 22 January 2026 slip, which claimed six lives at the Mount Maunganui Beachside Holiday Park, has so far cost more than $5 million from the council’s $7 million emergency risk reserves.
Of that, professional advice and legal review expenses have rapidly spiralled past $1.7 million, with external counsel and legal support alone accounting for well over $1.2 million.
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A federal complaint filed in New Jersey has managed something most BigLaw disputes never do. It has put the partnership track’s least visible machinery, the allocation of supervisory credit, on a public court proceeding. Power Points: A Troutman Pepper Locke associate has sued the firm and two of its partners, alleging disability discrimination, interference with
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Ogletree Deakins, the specialist labor law firm has expanded its international network by opening a nine-lawyer team in Moterrey, Mexico with lawyers joining from labor law heavyweight Littler. The firm’s media announcement is below – MONTERREY, Mexico – September 2, 2026 – Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management,
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According to fresh survey data from LexisNexis UK, 15% of lawyers at large commercial law firms now admit they are completely dependent on AI to carry out their daily legal work. The reliance is almost as pronounced in corporate legal departments, where 13% of in-house counsel report identical dependency.
Artificial intelligence in the legal sector has crossed the rubicon from experimental pilot project to standard operating equipment.
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Power Point: South African lawyer and former politician Mathews Phosa pursued an unusual approach to legal fees: helping mining communities secure and develop mineral rights and, in some cases, taking equity rather than conventional fees. Decades later, his business interests stretch across mining, forestry, logistics and other sectors, although claims about the precise size of
Baker McKenzie have recruited a leading disputes lawyer from Linklaters to join the firm’s Hong Kong office. Justin Tang has handled major commercial disputes and arbitration matters across China and Asia Pacific. The firm’s media announcement is below – Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie announced today that prominent disputes lawyer Justin Tang has joined
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Meghan Markle’s Russian Billionaire Connection Has a Curious LawFuel Twist As we are all once again subjected to more emetic Harry-and-Meghan headline hogging, this time yet another trans-Atlantic move and apparently the possible resurrection of her acting gig, I’m energised by the idea of her appearing in Guy Ritchie’s gangster romp ‘The Gentlemen’. What ever
Power Point – Tony Buzbee’s latest River Oaks acquisition isn’t simply another trophy-home purchase. The Houston trial lawyer is assembling a two-acre estate by demolishing a 15,000-square-foot neighbouring mansion, while salvaging an estimated $4 million of its contents and building gardens in its place. It is an unusually vivid glimpse of the wealth generated at
