When judging whether a law job is the job you really want, you’ll doubtless gauge the various options: teaching, banking, business – but what of pornography, for instance? Which is precisely what English law student Ella Hughes decided after making waves online, so to speak, with her pornographic acting. Her first video achieved over 4 […]
Chloe Swarbrick, 23, the newbie MP and the youngest to warm a parliamentary seat for 42 years, is the lawyer who didn’t want to be a lawyer but has nevertheless engaged in multiple careers by her current, young age. The Green Party MP who was almost certainly elected this weekend, barring any upset with special
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Leading Queens Counsel David Goddard has been announced as LawFuel New Zealand’s Lawyer of the Year. Mr Goddard is one of the leading appellate lawyers in New Zealand and handles a wide variety of major appellate, regulatory and public law work. Despite his prominence at the bar, he does not hold a New Zealand law
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Metiria Turei (Ngāti Kahungunu) has almost disappeared from headlines as we turn our attention to those still in the election race. There is hope, however, that Turei will continue to lay bare the many ways poverty exists in Aotearoa. In stories on Turei, her own personal struggles were frequently discussed. Although the media often
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] America is agog at The Bacherlorette, momentarily even forgetting The Donald. But while everyone awaits the ultimate gift of ‘The Rose’, it is valuable to learn some lessons from Bacherlorette Rachel Lindsay, the lawyer. Just what ‘legal lessons’ has she taught us – and what did you not know about her legal career and
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Well, just who are President Donald Trump’s new dream legal team? The Robert Mueller investigation of the Trump campaign’s links to the Russians and their moves to closely examine the Trump Organization’s links also has lead the president to push-back against the Mueller legal team, which also has it’s fair share of stars. So
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] So who exactly is Natalia Veselnitskya, the Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr to talk about potentially damaging information involving Hillary Clinton and the Democrats during the last US election? The lawyer is perhaps more than she seems – less glamorous Russian show pony lawyer and more Russian power player. Some of the
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Wellington barrister and recently retired Chapman Tripp partner Pheroze Jagose has been appointed to the High Court, the Attorney General announced today. Mr Jagose was a telecommunications and commercial litigation specialist at Chapman Tripp, before leaving to join the bar in 2016, where he worked in competition, trade practices and other areas of litigation.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Chief Justice John G Roberts Jr wished bad luck upon school graduates in dispensing some graduation advice that might have taken many by surprise. Speaking at a ninth grade commencement address at an elite school attended by his son, the speech was described by the Washington Post as “personal, understated and popular probably because it touched on
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Famed attorney F Lee Bailey is rightly renowned for his courtroom exploits, but the renown is now more focused on his second bankruptcy as he fights the IRS. The attorney, best known most recently for his OJ Simpson team membership defense, has also a record of defending and winning some of the toughest cases
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