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Power Law Firms – Kensington Swan boosts banking and finance team with new partner

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Kensington Swan is delighted to welcome Liz Lim as a partner to the national banking and finance team. Liz will play an integral role in growing the practice nationwide from her base in Auckland. Liz is a specialist banking and finance lawyer with over 15 years’ experience working in New Zealand and internationally. She has […]

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It Seems The Much-Heralded ‘Public Service’ Is Not Sufficient to Attract Judges . . We Simply Need to Pay Them More

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Tony Hubbard – Who said Judge’s were over-paid? And why should ‘public service’ alone be sufficient to attract new judges to the bench? The Remuneration Authority has decided that Judges, particularly District and Maori Court Judges, deserve more and – in a recruitment initiative focused on money rather than public service – they have decreed

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Attorney General Continues to Lead The 2020 Power List of New Zealand’s Most Powerful Lawyers

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LawFuel – 30 December 2019 – David Parker remains the most powerful lawyer in New Zealand under the newly released 2020 LawFuel Power List of the country’s 50 most powerful lawyers. The feature encompasses law professionals other than judges and politicians, excepting the Attorney General by virtue of his power over the profession. Also making

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The LawFuel Power List – The 50 Most Powerful Lawyers in New Zealand in 2020

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The 2020 edition of LawFuel’s Power List has identified New Zealand’s most powerful, 50 lawyers. The fifth edition of one of LawFuel’s most-read features has brought together the power players in the New Zealand legal profession from senior silks to former jurists, from leading civil servants to corporate lawyers. Developed through interviews with leading corporate

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Warren Alcock

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48 Warren Alcock The growing influence and power of sport has seen Warren Alcock inhabit the List for a couple of years, rising one place since last year. A native of Napier, he graduated from Otago Law School with a first class honours degree together with a BA in economics.  Before leaving the faculty he also

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Aedeen Boadita-Cormican

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18 Aedeen Boadita-Cormican Rising Power Acting Treasury solicitor following the departure of former Legal Counsel Jeremy Salmond, the Cambridge qualified former ACC General Counsel and Company Secretary is well placed to find her role confirmed. Formerly with Crown Law and hailing from Ireland, she came to New Zealand in 2008 after working as a barrister

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Maria Dew QC

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Maria Dew’s most recent foray into the public sphere has been her investigator of the Labour Party’s sexual assault allegations – matters that most would have thought should have been a Police matter rather than the subject of a private enquiry. Nonetheless, Ms Dew has a close relationship with the Labour leadership, which LawFuel has

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Tiana Epati – Lawyer of the Year & 'The Reluctant President' Tiana Epati Brings a Fresh Face to the Law Profession

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Law Society President and Criminal Lawyer Tiana Epati has been named New Zealand Lawyer of the Year. Ms Epati, 43, who ascended to the presidency of the Law Society in April this year, was named by legal news website LawFuel as the Lawyer of the Year for the impact her elevation has had on the

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