The top 10 of New Zealand’s most influential and powerful lawyers on the LawFuel List for 2024 – 1. Una Jagose KC Una Jagose QC, New Zealand’s Solicitor-General since 2016, remains at the top of the 2024 Power List, notwithstanding the most challenging year of her career. The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in […]
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Another younger dealmaker has made the cut in this year’s LawFuel Power List of the country’s 50 most powerful lawyers. Ian Beaumont at Russell McVeagh cut his dealmaking teeth at leading M&A and transactional law firm Skadden Arps in New York before returning to New Zealand and advising on some of the largest deals done
Auckland lawyer Aaron Nicholls has been struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors for misappropriating over $700,000 of client funds. The Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal made this decision after Nicholls failed to provide a satisfactory explanation for the missing money. Nicholls, who was suspended earlier this year due to client complaints about missing
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Law firms are commencing their Christmas ‘bashes’ in more-or-less traditional form, and a summary of some of the plans made by the big law firms was discussed in Sasha Borissenko’s Herald column, noting that Chapman Tripp, DLA Piper and Meredith Connell failed to respond to her request for details of their Christmas functions, putting them
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Harrison Cooper, Morgan Dalton-Mill, Trent Harris, Madeleine Hay, Josh Hayes, Emily James, David Keogh, Ella Knoester, Daniel Maier-Gant, Rebecca Meikle, Georgia Moore, Tallulah Parker, Ruby Tinson and Romy Wales have all been promoted, in recognition of their expertise and contribution to the firm. Top row: Harrison Cooper, Morgan Dalton-Mill, Trent Harris, Madeleine Hay, Josh Hayes,
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In a first for New Zealand, a guidebook for judges has been released in a move that provides transparency and also brings New Zealand into line with other jurisdictions. Criminal Jury Trials Bench Book is published by the Institute for Judicial Studies and brings New Zealand in line with other jurisdictions such as the United
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Bell Gully is named large law firm of the year at the New Zealand Law Awards 2024 held on Thursday 28 November in Auckland. Top Criminal Lawyer Joins LawFuel Power List in 2024 “This recognition is a testament to our team’s hard work and dedication, working alongside clients on some of New Zealand’s most significant
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Prominent criminal lawyer Emma Priest has joined the ranks of leading lawyers on LawFuel’s Power List as a result of both her work as an effective advocate and an effective legal educator. Emma Priest’s her’s two-decade journey has been marked by versatility and a career as a criminal lawyer, a job she loves as she
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Leading law firm, MinterEllisonRuddWatts was recognised for its outstanding M&A dealmaking at the New Zealand Law Awards last night. See: New Addition to LawFuel Power List – Top New Zealand Lawyer The firm’s leadership in legal services and ability to broker the most complex of commercial deals was recognised with the firm taking home top
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Leading commercial law firm Russell McVeagh is further growing its partnership, elevating senior talents Lauren Rapley* and Jeremy Upson to partner, effective 1 December 2024. Board Chair David Butler says, “We are delighted to welcome Lauren and Jeremy to the partnership. They are exceptional lawyers and team leaders who will further strengthen our ability to provide our clients with the best
