>> General Counsel Role – Auckland – Check Here Admitted to the bar in 1991, Mike began his career at Bell Gully. He spent two years with Herbert Smith in London before returning to Bell Gully, where he was a litigation partner from 2001 to 2017. He joined the independent bar in 2017 and was […]
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This year’s honours quietly confirm who really sets the rules in New Zealand – and it’s not just the judges in red robes New Zealand’s King’s Birthday Honours list has once again proved a useful, acid test for what the establishment thinks “the law” is really for – and this year, the answer is: constitutional
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Jacob Barry is the latest senior litigator to depart Meredith Connell, adding further weight to the ongoing questions around the Crown Solicitor firm’s ability to retain top-tier talent, or whether the move signals a strategic slimming of the firm. Now joining Lindsay Francis & Mangan’s Auckland office as a partner, Barry brings a well-established reputation
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The New Zealand Bar Association | Ngā Ahorangi Motuhake o te Ture is urging the Government to reconsider proposed legislation by taking a broader view of long-term effects of making such retrospective laws. >> NZ Law Jobs here The Government has said that it intends to introduce legislation to prevent the courts from deciding claims
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Three more senior litigators have walked from MC to Richmond Chambers. The pattern is now too consistent to be coincidence – and it sharpens a question the firm still hasn’t answered: is the Crown warrant a launchpad, or a liferaft? John Bowie Meredith Connell, New Zealand’s oldest Crown Solicitor’s office and, by its own count,
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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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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
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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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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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
