#Metoo issues have continued to plague the legal profession and it seems that despite the best intentions, some re-regulation, sanctions, client pressure and any number of other initiatives, the #Metoo problem remains. Alcohol and substance abuse, toxic work environments, power imbalance and other factors continue. Can it be solved? Writing in Legal Business, Nathalie Tidman […]
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Tauranga barristers chambers of Rita and Bill Nabney were enjoying a White Island Christmas party two days before Monday’s eruption. Barrister Rita Nabney said the staff and two tour guides were the only people on the island at the time of an 8am tour on Saturday, and spurting mud reached about 15 metres high. At
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Tax law can be demanding and – dare we say? – sometimes dry. But it can also be fascinating and stimulating. It has been, however, long dominated by male practitioners. Maria Clezy appears to be changing that perception. A young tax lawyer with Buddle Findlay, Maria has broken a number of barriers with her tax
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The latest round of public hearings into the Australian Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants (RCMPI), has seen ‘Lawyer X’ – Nicola Gobbo – describe herself as “the biggest mess known to mankind.” In part of the transcript read to the Commission, Ms Gobbo said: “I shouldn’t keep saying that I’m a pile
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English media law expert Mark Stephens says the decision by Prince Andrew to talk about his connections with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was a “catastrophic error”. Mark Stephens is a partner at Howard Kennedy LLP and gained national prominence through his representation of James Hewitt after his alleged affair with Princess Diana. In an interview with
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Former Wellington solicitor David McLean made a profitable move to his current employer, Westpac Bank, and has now also seen his remuneration rise to $2.455 million. The increase for Power List member McLean has seen an increase of over $14,500 according to the Bank’s recently released financial reports and despite his parent bank’s chief executive
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s firing of a four partner team that planned to move to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a further example of the increasing aggression for legal talent shown in the competitive corporate legal market in the US. It has also provoked some criticism for the impact it will have on Clearys – and potentially
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If They Didn’t Like What Was Happening Employees Were Told to ‘Get off the bus’ Anonymous* There are fresh revelations about the NZTA’s dubious work on developing new transport technologies, which details how NZTA officials under Fergus Gammie made astonishing and over the top promises about the potential for certain types of transport technologies they were wanting
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The litigation funders are fighting to battle CBL Corp, with the ‘first-up-best-dressed’ contender being Australian-based IMF Bentham, but now local heavyweight LPF Group has joined the fray with even more heavyweight institutional backing. The second class action against CBL Corp and its directors has been launched with the support of the company’s largest, institutional shareholder,
Innocence Project See Release of Willie Veasy Powered By LawFuel –Willie Veasy, a Philadelphia man first convicted of murder in 1993, has been cleared this week of all charges and freed thanks to Jim Figorski and Christine Levin of Dechert and the Pennsylvania Innocence Project at Temple University Beasley School of Law. This is Jim
