NZ Needs Fewer Banks, Not More Introducing more competition into the New Zealand banking sector would be served by fewer banks and more ‘nano banks’, says the CEO of a specialist credit risk firm. Meurig Chapman said the Commerce Commission report was merely paying lip service to the concept of competition in the banking market. […]
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>> Latest Law Jobs Here . . New Jobs Daily Comments by Shane Jones that Justice Cheryl Gwyn was “a Communist Judge’ have lead to the inevitable criticism and complaints from lawyers. Justice Gwyn, appointed to the High Court in 2019, was formerly the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security. A former partner at both Chapman
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New Zealand Law Gender Equality Report The New Zealand Law Society’s 2023 Gender Equality Charter (GEC) survey reveals that women comprise over half the profession (55.4 percent) but their representation often stops at the boardroom door. It is, as it is in many jurisdictions, a ‘room for improvement’ report. The New Zealand Law Society report,
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>> Check your new law job on New Zealand’s best law jobs network Auckland firms Glaister Ennor and Keegan Alexander are to merge in December, combining two mid-level power players in the Auckland legal market. The firms have a substantial history between them with Glaister Ennor, with 12 partners and over 60 staff and 100 years’ history while Keegan
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Russell McVeagh Opens First South Island Office Russell McVeagh is set to expand to the South Island, opening an office in Queenstown headed by local lawyer Tony Van Aart of Van Aart Sycamore Lawyers, the Dunedin-based commercial law boutique. The new office opens on 1 December and will take existing staff members from Van Aart
The New Zealand Law Society has initiated an investigation into New Zealand Law Society president Frazer Barton with two private complaints against him being lodged with the Society. The investigations come in the wake of Barton’s connection to the destruction of documents by Presbyterian Support Otago, as detailed in the final report of the Royal
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Lawyer Tug-of-War: NZ Law Firms Battle Global Competition for Legal Talent The legal law jobs landscape in New Zealand in 2024 is characterized by intense competition for top talent, including from overseas, with firms and in-house teams experiencing significant challenges in attracting and retaining skilled lawyers. The 2024 LawFuel law job survey shows that there
Kaplan Returns To Roots With New Litigation Boutique Few legal figures stand out as prominently as Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan in the American legal universe. A trailblazing attorney with a penchant for taking on high-profile cases, Kaplan has consistently pushed the boundaries of justice and equality scoring recent victory against former President Donald Trump in the
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The delay in the sentencing of former Green MP and Hamas supporter Golriz Ghahraman has set off a Twitter-X storm with Court-spun tales of her parliamentary security detail equalling the PMs and her PTSD issues due to her alleged tendency to ‘build a house and then burn it down’. >> Latest law jobs here .
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Ben Thompson, legal affairs writer Law firm AI applications are growing in importance as the legal industry undergoes rapid transformation as firms around the globe recognize the importance of embracing generative AI to remain competitive. While historically cautious about technological change, the pace of AI advancement and its swift adoption by corporate legal departments has
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