28 Jack Hodder, QC Jack Hodder QC former Chapman Tripp senior litigator Jack Hodder has continued to demonstrate his power plays through his recent representation of former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, and fellow directors Peter Gomm, Clive Tilby, and Sir Paul Collins who were all directors of the failed Mainzeal Construction company in 2013. He was also hired […]
Auckland barrister Andrew Simpson, 41, has pleaded guilty to money laundering transactions which allegedly aided the Comancheros Motorcycle Club. He was arrested in April along with others during a number of raids across Auckland when almost $4 million in assets was seized. His name suppression was dropped on Wednesday, at the High Court at Auckland in
Facebook is losing out to other social media platforms for law firms, according to a new report. Consultancy Good2bSocial’s annual report card, the Social Law Firm Index includes more firms than ever since commencing its reports in 2013, measuring social media reach, performance, engagement on both firm websites and social media platforms. DLA Piper came
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Liz Blythe named NZ’s top young private practice talent Technology Partner Liz Blythe has been honoured with the title ‘Young Private Practice Lawyer of the Year’ at the 2019 New Zealand Law Awards. Liz is passionate about technology and helping her clients to achieve positive change through innovation. Liz’s specialist area of expertise, her significant
Stewart Germann has been a leading franchise lawyer for many years, but he has also recently qualified as a Certified Franchise Executive (CFE), being the only internationally recognised professional accreditation programme for franchise executives. He is also to lecture in a subject that to a large extent has been neglected by New Zealand’s tertiary institutions
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The Small Law Firm Survey: Small Firms Can Still Earn Big Money – Plus The 3 Big Profit Drivers The Moore Markhams survey of small law firms in the Auckland region has shown strong profitability among smaller law firms, albeit with a slight decrease over the past year. However, the survey does indicate that small
Described this week as ‘Winston Peters’ right hand man’, lawyer Brian Henry has been a long time Peters counsel, in more ways than one. But the developing NZ First scandal is unlikely to greatly dent the lawyer who has seen all this before. Recently appearing in the Auckland High Court proceeding brought by Peters in
Proposed class action looks to teach an expensive lesson to Aussie private equity firm and directors behind the Intueri Education Group failure – Former MD Kevin Chin Took Home AUD13 Million ‘Bonus’ Help is near to hand for the more than 800 shareholders who invested in Intueri Education Group Limited, the NZX and ASX-listed company
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Nicole Black knows a thing or two about lawyers and technology. She’s very much the ‘been there done that’ tech law expert, having written or co-written two books on technology and the law, as well as numerous articles on legal technology. But there is one area of technology that – hands down – she believes
Australian legal startup Lawpath has closed a $4.4 million fundraising round, one of the largest in Australian legaltech history. Lawpath, founded in 2014, has been a foundation member of the booming Australian legaltech environment, providing a fixed-fee system and an easy-to-use online platform for legal clients. Lawpath CEO Dominic Woolrych said the oversubscribed round demonstrated
