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Lawyers – Are You Adequately Insured For Illness and Income Protection?

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A recent report showed New Zealanders are under insured in several areas, including income protection and critical illness, two areas that are of critical importance to lawyers. This article looks at the issue from Medical Assurance Society. Life and income protection insurance helps build financial resilience for you and your family should the worst happen. […]

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Litigator-Turned-Software Publisher Develops ‘Two Bees’ App To Take The Sting Out of Costs Queries

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Insurance barrister Steve Keall has had ample experience with clients discussing costs on civil claims, but the broad ‘best guess’ approach was not something that filled the bill for him, or the clients. He set about developing a smarter and accurate way to assess costs, developing an online calculator app that tallied costs under both

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The Lawyers Who Created A Digital Accessibility Solution For Website Owners

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Creating a new digital accessibility app has been an interesting journey for two Rotorua lawyers whose iaccess app is designed to provide greater accessibility choices for website users who are impaired in some way. Lawyers Danielle Caudwell and Ros Morshead set up the app when they were seeking some challenges beyond their legal work. The

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‘Fake News’, Says Jones Day Over US Election Voter Fraud Challenge . . But The News Remains

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The chaotic US election has been enveloped in the ‘voter fraud’ controversy, which has also largely enveloped Big Law firm Jones Day and their involvement in lawsuits for the GOP. The firm has worked to avoid being drawn into the controvery, any more than it can, that is, by releasing a statement that affirms that

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MinterEllisonRuddWatts Gender Diversity Recognition

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MinterEllisonRuddWatts’ leadership of gender diversity initiatives in the legal profession has again been recognised by the prestigious Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2020. The awards celebrate the achievements of leading women in the legal profession, as well as progressive initiatives for gender diversity, mentorship, minority women, talent management, and work-life

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Are Lawyers – And Others – Ready For The Coming Trust Law Changes?

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In what is dubbed as the biggest change to trust law in 60 years, people entitled to benefit from trusts will soon receive basic information about them. For some, finding out they’re a beneficiary of a trust may come as a surprise. Following an 18-month lead-in, on January 30 the new Trusts Act takes effect.

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Una’s Joyless Day: Crown Law & Solicitor General Attacked Over Abuse Claims

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The Solicitor General, Una Jagose QC and Crown Law came under vociferous attack during the hearings into historic abuse claims being held presently. Jagose, a LawFuel power list member, had given evidence earlier when she said some cases handled by Crown Law had been poorly handled, but that the office had ‘evolved’ in how it

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The Business Email Compromise Scam – Who Is Liable?

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The increase in the number of email scams or business email compromise scams is a major concern for lawyers. This article from Australia’s GotoCourt Lawyers looks at the liability issue. Michaelle Makela* During an initial consult, a client presented the following scenario: The client had engaged a local small business in Melbourne (Business) to complete

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