WRMK Lawyers Welcome Lawyer to Dargaville Team Powered By LawFuel -WRMK Lawyers is delighted to welcome Ihapera (Pera) Paniora to its team of Dargaville lawyers. Pera is a member of WRMK’s dispute resolution team, and has a particular interest in providing employment law advice and support. She has previously worked at other smaller Dargaville firms
When it comes to measuring true parity among law firms, it is the equity partner list that tells the true story of female parity in the large firms. The LawFuel equity partner list shows that more firms are disbanding the ‘paid partner’ roles, which conceal a multitude of issues, and instead provide true equity parity
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The LawFuel Gender Survey: New Zealand’s Most Female-Friendly Law Firms A Power List Feature – Our Power Sponsors LawFuel Power List Survey: The Gender Survey list is based on all partners, equity and salaried, although the more significant list is the percentage of equity partners who are female (shown in our second list). We have
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A foreign exchange broker who used forged documents to disguise his company’s financial status has pleaded guilty to fraud. Russell Maher (52) pleaded guilty today at the Auckland District Court to 47 charges of ‘Using forged documents’ brought by the Serious Fraud Office. The charges relate to Forex Brokers Limited (FBL), through which the defendant
Brian Henry’s attempts to extricate himself from the Whaleoil defamation has become a question of the case that won’t go away. A Newsroom story reported that the “unorthodox advocate” has been trying to remove himself from the three year old defamation case following Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater’s stroke last October. As a result of Slater’s
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Russell McVeagh Appoint ‘Home Grown’ Talent Powered By LawFuel – Commercial litigation and dispute resolution lawyer Will Irving has been promoted from senior associate to partner at Russell McVeagh. Based in the firm’s Auckland office, Will’s particular specialties include disputes and advisory work across the financial services, energy, and infrastructure/property sectors. Will is a “home-grown” Russell McVeagh
Conservative Lawyers Blast Trump’s Racist Tweets A Conservative group of leading lawyers has castigated the ‘abhorrent behavior’ of President Trump and the failure of the Republican Caucus to make comment. “We refuse to share the silence of most of the Republican caucus in Congress, whose timidity in the face of this abhorrent behavior reflects
Ministry of Justice – High Court – Mr Cameron Slater submits he is no longer a party to defamation proceedings brought against him because he has been made bankrupt. The Court makes explicit that a term and condition of its order the proceeding may continue against him is that he must comply with the orders
LawFuel’s 2017 Lawyer of the Year, leading commercial silk David Goddard QC is to be appointed to the High Court and Court of Appeal on 26 July, which has raised some eyebrows for a reason quite separate from Mr Goddard’s unquestioned abilities and intellect. The concerns raised by several senior counsel were that the appointment
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Dunedin-based law firm Westgate & Williams has been ordered to pay a former personal assistant $30,000 after she was ‘humiliated and emotionally distressed’ by her dismissal. The employee, Joanne Morrison worked in the firm’s Balclutha office and an Employment relations Authority case in March has found that she was unfairly dismissed by the firm. An
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