Australian-based ‘legal disrupter’ LegalVision has opened its doors in New Zealand with a plan to do to the local market what it has been doing in Australia. As we wrote in LawFuel last year, LegalVision began life as a business resource for business owners rather than as a law firm but now has over 350,000 […]
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DLA Piper has moved its Wellington office into new waterfront premises in the Deloitte building. DLA Piper’s New Zealand Country Managing Partner, Martin Wiseman, says “Our move in Wellington is another exciting step in our firm’s ongoing pursuit of excellence and innovation. Once again, we have created a world-class, technically sophisticated office environment which not
Arthur Taylor, the now somewhat celebrated “jailhouse lawyer” is making a return to court by suing his former landlords, Corrections, over their banning of the book ‘Gangland’ from New Zealand prisons. The book, written by journalist Jared Savage, deals with organised crime in New Zealand and specifically the ‘inside story’ of how the police took
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BigLaw TikTok Lawyer A pandemic-ruined birthday lead to lawyer Cecillia Xie deciding that she would make a video that went viral and lead to her current position as a TikTok lawyer-influencer. The Morrison & Foerster privacy lawyer is also a Harvard graduate and has become a significant influencer in terms of legal issues, including recent
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David Perry QC is regarded as one of Britain’s most formidable Queens’ Counsel, handling a diverse range of clients, who now include the China-focused Hong Kong government intent on enforcing their controversial ‘security laws’ against pro-democracy protesters. Perry has been appointed by a Hong Kong court to represent them in the trial of well known
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Employment law specialist Shelley Kopu, who once led EY Law’s employment law team, has commenced practice as an employment lawyer at Shelley Kopu Law. The new law firm’s services include advising on all aspects on employment law, as well as mediation and investigation. Shelley Kopu has both private practice and in-house experience having practiced at Chris Patterson Barrister, SBM
The Russian billionaire vendor of the mansion recently sold to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry has sought to obtain private emails from New Zealand-based law news site LawFuel.com. Russian banker Sergey Grishin has indicated that he will take legal action against the small kiwi-based website and has attempted to obtain emails between the website and its
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The practice manager of two Christchurch barristers stole around $170,000 over a 16 months’ period to feed her meth addiction. Barristers Rupert Glover and Margaret Sewell have worked from their chambers for several years and employed Sarah McGirr as a reportedly ‘cheerful and obliging’ practice manager. Glover described the series of thefts to Stuff.co.nz as
The twin 23-year-old girls inspired by their non-lawyer father’s arguments for Maori Land Rights has seen them develop their respective legal careers, recently reported in the Southland Times. The twins, who grew up in Bluff and attended high school in Invercargill, are of Kāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe descent. Their father was on the Titi/Mutton
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The setting up of women-only networks and reverse mentoring programmes may be unwittingly undermining gender diversity within law firms, according to new research. A report by Thomson Reuters that measures the effectiveness of common diversity initiatives warns against programmes that support the ‘erroneous perception that female lawyers are fundamentally different than male lawyers and therefore
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