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Lane Neave Expands To Wellington With Acquisition of Boutique Law Practice

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Christchurch-based Lane Neave has expanded to Wellington with the incorporation of boutique law firm Bell & Co. Lane Neave has offices in Auckland and Queenstown as well as Christchurch. The 24 partner firm has a strong focus on employment law matters with Managing Partner Andrew Shaw in Christchurch and Fiona McMillan in Auckland co-leading the […]

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Minters Partner & Olympian Joins EY Law In Race To Grow Firm

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EY Law has increased its Auckland-based legal team with the recruitment of former MinterEllisonRuddWatts partner Cameron Taylor. Taylor, a former Olympian has joined EY Law who are focused on expanding ‘their footprint’ in the New Zealand legal market. As well as the recruitment of Taylor, EY Law have also made Brendon Prebble, also a former

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NZ LegalTech Firm Snags Key LinkedIn Exec In Recruitment Coup

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LegalTech startup Law Vu has recruited a senior LinkedIn executive in a recruitment coup that will further help the startup’s rise. Greg Stephenson was North America’s marketing chief for Microsoft-owned LinkedIn who came to New Zealand because his Kiwi wife was keen to return.  LawVu has been successfully fund-raising as LawFuel has reported and has

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The Paradox Papers – What Does The Pandora Papers Dump Really Mean For Anti-Money Laundering?

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  Ron Pol – When the solutions to Panama, Paradise, and Pandora papers prevent better anti-crime outcomes.   The latest round of coordinated outrage from a carefully manicured document leak – dubbed the Pandora Papers – provoked the usual storm of readymade “solutions” this week to “fix” the anti-money laundering system. But when perceptions (no

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LawFuel Power List Lawyer Appointed to the High Court

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Christchurch barrister Jonathan Eaton QC has been appointed a High Court judge, sitting in Christchurch.  He sat this year at number 27 on the LawFuel Power List of the country’s most powerful and influential lawyers. Attorney‑General David Parker​ announced the appointment this week, when he also announced that Auckland lawyer Clive Taylor was an associate

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Are The Crown Solicitors’ Still Making Too Much . . Or Is That Just One Media Report?

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John Bowie* The funding for the 16 Crown Solicitors’ offices, at $41 million, has piqued the interest of Guyon Espiner in an article in RNZ pointing to Auckland Crown Solicitor and Power List member Brian Dickey luxuriating’ in a “light-filled space on the top floor of a central city Auckland high rise”. Dickey, at Meredith

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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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The Judge Who Queried The Obvious: Why Send Drug Users to the Drug Suppliers?

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It’s a bit like coals-to-Newcastle, or having the Taliban come to teach us how to educate more women. For District Court Judge Russell Collins, providing a discount to a Mongrel Mob member who was to attend the taxpayer-funded meth-treatment programme run by operated in part by the so-called ‘notorious’ Sonny Smith, a high profile Mob

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Russell McVeagh Partner Departure

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A Russell McVeagh partner has resigned following an ‘independent external” review by an investigator over alleged breach or breaches of the firm’s policies, which the partner denies having breached. “A partner has recently resigned from the Russell McVeagh partnership. This followed the appointment of an independent external investigator to complete a thorough investigation into concerns raised that the

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