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Provincial NZ Law Firm Offers $25000 To Attract Lawyers – It Worked Before, Why Not Now?

Law firms seeking lawyers to work in the provinces are taking aggressive steps to recruit staff, with reports that one law firm is offering new solicitors up to $25,000 cash deposit for a house to attract quality staff. A Hasting-based law firm has made the offer, with the advertisement looking for a senior and junior […]

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2 Maori Women Who Used Their Law Degrees Via Different Paths To Reach The Same Employer

Career Advice, Law Job News, New Zealand Law News / February 5, 2018

Two women lawyers, both Maori, have wound up working for the same company after taking entirely separate routes to their current jobs: One a varied and more circuitous journey and one a more traditional one. Both demonstrate the opportunities that exist for women lawyers notwithstanding the obstacles that confront many in the profession. VUW Law

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Dealing With Self-Represented Defendants in NZ Law

New Zealand Law News / January 31, 2018

Dealing with self represented defendants has been an issue for the courts for some time, notwithstanding the Court of Appeal indicating that amicus curiae appointments should be rare to avoid conflicts, confusion and undermining the legal aid system. The Court of Appeal decision in Grenville Henare Fahey v. The Queen saw the court consider submissions

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Wellington QC Appointed Associate Judge

New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / January 31, 2018

Wellington Queen’s Counsel and former partner of what is now Minter Ellison Ken Johnston has been appointed an Associate Judge of the High Court. The appointment was announced by Attorney General David Parker. Ken Johnston practised from Lambton Chambers and has handled extensive arbitration work, as well as commercial and criminal trial and appellate work. Following

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NZ Law News – Bell Gully leads in M&A league tables for 2017

New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / January 25, 2018

Bell Gully has retained its market-leading position as a legal adviser for mergers and acquisitions, according to two major international league tables released in January. Annual reviews from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters ranked Bell Gully within the top 20 firms in Australasia in three out of four measures of merger and acquisition activity in 2017.

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More Women Than Men in NZ Law Profession

New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / January 25, 2018

It was always coming – the day when women outnumbered men in the New Zealand legal profession. And now it has arrived, with the NZ Law Society announcing that of the 13,103 lawyers practising, 6553 are women. Women admitted to the bar have exceeded men since the early 1990s, but the gap has now closed.

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NZ PM Jacinda Ardern Relents to Old Guard Campaigner Winston Peters

New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / January 19, 2018

The pregnancy of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has lead to Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters accepting the baubles of Ms Ardern’s office for at least six weeks while she takes leave to have her baby in June. Ironically perhaps, Ms Arderns’ pregnancy was found out during the coalition talks where Mr Peters was centre state

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The LawFuel Power List And the Politician Who Rules Them All (Lawyers, & More)

Lawyers, New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / January 18, 2018

Paul Crail Among New Zealand’s most powerful lawyers, outlined in the third LawFuel “Power List”, the politicians and jurists are excluded from membership. We all know they have power. The purpose of the Power List is to outline those non-political, non-judicial legal identifies who wield power within New Zealand. But one politician who has enveloped

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Russell McVeagh advises on recently announced sale of Paymark, a leading New Zealand payment network

New Zealand Law News, NZ Press Releases, Press Releases / January 18, 2018

Acting for the bank shareholders of Paymark (ANZ, ASB, BNZ and Westpac), the law firm is advising on its signing of a $190 million sale agreement with Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment. The sale agreement includes the extension of the service agreements currently in force between Paymark and the four leading acquiring

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Kensington Swan makes five new senior appointments

New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / January 18, 2018

Kensington Swan is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Special Counsel and two new Senior Associates, effective from 1 January 2018. These promotions are effective from 1 January 2018, and are part of our ongoing commitment to the development and progression of excellent lawyers within the firm. Each of the following individuals are

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