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NZ’s Legal Market Recovery Has Started But Don’t Expect Champagne In The Boardroom Yet

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New Zealand’s legal hiring market is finally recovering, but it is a selective, skills‑driven rebound rather than a broad-based boom. >> Law Roles on LawFuel Recent commentary from recruiters confirms that litigation, disputes, employment, banking and finance, and governance/regulatory roles are leading the upturn. LawNews reports “green shoots” in legal recruitment, with strongest demand over […]

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Silks, Supremacy, and Sleepless Nights – Inside Chris Bishop’s Playbook as Attorney-General

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If you want to understand the constitutional worldview of New Zealand’s brand new Attorney-General, look no further than his Beehive office wall. Taking pride of place is a framed copy of Fitzgerald v Muldoon, the landmark 1976 ruling that removed all doubt about Parliament’s role as the country’s paramount law-making body. “The judgment’s laid out

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FNZ’s US$4.6b Class Action – Inside the Employee Shareholder Revolt

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A colossal US$4.6 billion (about NZ$7.7 billion) class action against global wealth‑tech group FNZ has opened in the New Zealand High Court, immediately triggering a fierce procedural fight over whether the dispute belongs in Wellington’s courtroom or behind closed doors in offshore arbitration rooms in London. Billed as one of the largest corporate shareholder actions

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MinterEllison Slashing Graduate Jobs: Is AI Replacing Junior Lawyers?

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AI is Eating the Entry-level Lunch For years, partners have whispered about how many juniors they actually need if a machine can read 10,000 documents in an hour. This week, MinterEllison in Australia stopped whispering and started acting. The firm has effectively put the Australian legal market on notice, slashing its 2025-26 graduate intake by

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NZ Lawyer News – Cavell Leitch Recruits former Minters Partner to Launch Wellington Office

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Christchurch-based Cavell Leitch is opening its Wellington office, recruiting Rodney Craig, formerly with MinterEllisonRuddWatts is to set up the capital office. The thirteen-principal firm has focused on organic growth and is seeking to grow its business with the latest announcement. Craig was a partner at MinterEllisonRuddWatts for 14 years and was previously a partner at

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Doing the Mahi on Maiki: How TVNZ Tried to Bury Its Own Scandal

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John Bowie, LawFuel publisher It takes a certain perverted genius for the state broadcaster to threaten to sue a commercial rival over what it primly calls an “employment matter”. But here we are with the Maiki Sherman affair, something Maiki herself might term ‘Faggotgate’ should she be on the right side of the debacle. It’s

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NZ Law – Chapman Tripp’s New Podcast Series

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In what feels like the legal sector’s latest bid to colonise every available earbud, Chapman Tripp has dipped its toes into the podcast waters with The Special Conditions. Because, of course, what New Zealand’s infrastructure industry really needed was yet another podcast. Chapman Tripp have already dived into podcasting with The Aotearoa Circle (with Alana

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Hamilton Law Firm Fined $60K for AML Breaches and Obstruction

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A Hamilton-based law firm has been fined $60,000 after pleading guilty to multiple breaches of New Zealand’s Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act (AML/CFT), following a Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) investigation that exposed what regulators described as prolonged and systemic non-compliance. Foster & Milroy admitted to criminal failures including not undertaking a

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ANZ’s CCCFA Defence: The Dog Ate My Compliance Calculator

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By John Bowie  |  LawFuel publisher The summary judgment hearing may be over, but as Justice Venning considers the verdict, ANZ’s problem remains entirely the same — and the bank’s three lines of defence have a familiar quality: plausible at the bar, less convincing in the cold light of the statute. Few things are quite

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NZ Law – Former Dentons Lawyer Joins Lowndes Jordan

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>> See LawFuel.com for the breaking law news AUCKLAND 13 April 2026 – Experienced corporate law practitioner Nick Scott has joined corporate and commercial law firm Lowndes Jordan as Special Counsel. Formerly a partner in the corporate and commercial team of Dentons Kensington Swan, Nick brings more than 35 years’ experience in corporate and commercial law.

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