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Leading IP Lawyer Writes Book To ‘Connect The Dots’ On Pressing Issues of our Time

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Leading New Zealand IP lawyer Clive Elliott has been concerned like many people on what is happening with the state of the world – and its human inhabitants. Grasping the issue he posted a LinkedIn message about a book he has written to deal with the issues of  inequality, polarization, extremism, global warming, and the […]

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The ‘Virgin’ Lawyer Behind The New Zealand Banking Class Action

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Scott Russell doesn’t necessarily come across as a big ticket litigator, but he has a potentially billion dollar claim to  handle now and has the cred to pull it off, particularly with his well funded backing from the litigation funders on both sides of the Tasman. A former Bell Gully lawyer, Russell moved to London

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Women Storm The LawFuel Power List of New Zealand’s Most Powerful Lawyers

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More women than ever make the top 50 most powerful and influential lawyers in New Zealand on LawFuel list The top fifty in LawFuel Power Law list of the country’s most influencial lawyers in the Power List includes more women than ever, with 23 women making the list, the highest in the five years’ the

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Covid Court – How Covid is Changing Face(s) of Court Trials . . And Juries

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As New Zealand’s alert levels edge downwards the changing face of trials and court work has entered the realms of the new normal – face masks, scanning-in and social distancing. New laws and case law continue and academic treatises on the effect of Covid on society, the law, Maori, the justice system and more continue

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Leading Silk Rips Lining From Leading Law Firm FieldFisher

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“What was needed was not legal advice but judgement, common sense and the courage to stand up to the executive as appropriate.” Leading QC Alison Levitt has excoriated law firm FieldFisher and partner Matthew Lohn in a report over advice the law firm provided to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, (RICS) saying the firm

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Class Action Lawyer Q&A: Litigator Gregory Cade Talks About Toyota 4Runner Class Action Lawsuit

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The owner of a 2005 Toyota 4Runner is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit filed in South Carolina. Hundreds of 4Runner owners joined the suit over defective rusting issues. They are represented by Environmental Litigation Group, P.C. lawyer Gregory Cade, who answers questions about the class action lawsuit. Q: What is the Toyota 4Runner

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The Highest Paid In-House Counsel List – But How Should Their Pay Be Ranked?

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And the gender diversity issue that persists with In-House Counsel too Pandemic or not, 2020 was generally a very good year for partners at Big Law, but General Counsel in the US Fortune 1000 companies ‘suffered’ a relatively flat years according to Corporate Counsel’s recently released 2021 GC Compensation Survey. The average salaries were in the

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Disbarred Lawyer Found Guilty of Stealing Settlement Monies & Cheating on Taxes

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LOS ANGELES – A disbarred personal-injury lawyer was found guilty by a federal jury today of 22 felonies for stealing the majority of a multimillion-dollar settlement that should have been paid to a car accident victim, as well as cheating on his federal income taxes.           Philip James Layfield, a.k.a. “Philip Samuel Pesin,” 48, of Las

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The Big Law Firm Partner Who Took Transparency To A Whole New Level

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An Allen & Overy partner’s intimate encounter with a staffer was one that set up the unwanted viral phenomenon driving the firm’s PR side crazy, no doubt, and driving the partner to post his resignation letter. The video was going about WhatsApp with the footage explained by legal blog RollOnFriday where the A&O partner’s antics

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Refugee Lawyer-Turned-Silicon Valley Law Managing Partner Featured in Law Career Feature

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Quinn Emanuel Silicon Valley Managing Partner Victoria Maroulis was featured in the AmLaw Litigation Daily for doing her part to broaden the pipeline into the legal profession. Maroulis, who arrived in the United States in 1988 as political refugee from the Soviet Union, worked her way through remedial reading courses at Ohlone College, a community college in Fremont, CA,

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