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The LawFuel Gender Survey: New Zealand’s Most Female-Friendly Law Firms in 2020

The LawFuel Gender Survey: New Zealand’s Most Female-Friendly Big Law Firms in 2020 Gender equality continues as one of the major objectives for most law firms who seek to equalize female partner numbers to the preponderance of female law graduates, as well as the demand for greater opportunity for women to reach the highest levels […]

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Bell Gully Chair Wins Diversity & Inclusion Award

Bell Gully chair Anna Buchly has won the 2020 INFINZ Hunter Campbell Diversity and Inclusion award, underpinning the firm’s commitment to providing a diverse and inclusive environment. At the awards held in Auckland last night, Anna was recognised for encouraging and nurturing diversity, in particular around gender and diverse representation at all levels. Managing partner Haydn Wong said the firm’s

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Fast-Growing Asia-Pacific Law Firm To Expand Operations in New Zealand

LegalVision, Asia-Pacific’s fastest-growing law firm, has announced plans to expand its operations into New Zealand from 1 January 2021. LegalVision has assisted over 150,000 Australian businesses and will replicate in New Zealand its successful tech-driven model of providing highly responsive, fixed-fee legal services. “The New Zealand market is similar to Australia in that there is

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Is It Just As Well Judith Collins Is Hanging On To Her Practising Certificate?

The nightmare election result for the National Party may have been anticipated by leader Judith Collins, who told a group of Hamilton lawyers last week that she was holding on to her practising certificate as something to fall back on. Her question now may be whether fallback time has come. Asked why she retained her

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Law Marketing & How To Use the Rainmaking Cycle to Become a Rainmaker

Law Firm Rainmaking Recommendations   Lindsay Griffiths* – In many different blogs and Rainmaking Recommendations, I have said – repeatedly, that Rainmaking is about 3 things: Creating visibility and becoming known as an authority in the field of law that you practice – this is known as Marketing yourself and your services; Meeting people – whether in

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Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad

Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives – Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post. The never-before-revealed meeting is

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Socialists . . And The Need to Explain ‘Socialism’

Bob Jones – The meaning of the word “socialism” is not in dispute. The Oxford dictionary describes it as, “A political and economic theory of social organisation which advocates that the community as a whole should own and control the means of production, capital and property. Also, a transitionary social state between the overthrow of

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Bullying At The Bar – The ‘Culture of Fear’ That Pervades The Legal Institution

Jenna Shay – The English Bar has long been regarded as as bastion of some of the brightest lawyers in the country, but no more, it would seem. Instead, a recent report referred to the ‘culture of fear’ at the bar and the bullying and harassment that occurs. A new report from the UK Bar

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