D Day For Eric Watson
A bankruptcy hearing against Eric Watson is set following recent legal action over loans and debts due from him
Who Is Dick DeGuerin, The Octogenerian Texas Law Star?
Who is Dick DeGuerin the Texas legal star?
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The ‘Fearsome’ Law Firm List: What Makes A Fearsome Firm?
What gets a law firm onto the BTI Fearsome Firm List?
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Russell McVeagh expands private client offering with new special counsel
In a somewhat different move for a major law firm, Russell McVeagh have recruited a long-time private practice, self-employed lawyer who practised for eight years in her own practice in the private law arena, focused on trust, estate and relationship property issues. Priscilla Brown previously worked for both MinterEllisonRuddWatts and TGT Legal Russell McVeagh has
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Former Norton Rose Risk Lawyer Joins Linklaters to Set Up New Team
Law firms are increasingly moving into the risk advisory space and Linklaters have now moved to set up their own risk advisory practice by hiring Nortonn Rose’s Jane Caskey, former Global Head of their Risk Advisory practice. The Linklaters media release is below: Linklaters announces the appointment of Jane Caskey as Global Head of Risk
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Chapman Tripp’s Swanky New Offices Win Award
Chapman Tripp are delighted in their new offices in Wellington having won an ArchitectureNow award for the fitout of their new offices in the Deloitte building, Customhouse Quay. The new offices, over two levels, accommodate around 130 people in the building, providing a combination of reception, amenity and meeting spaces. The judges described the fitout
FortyEight Chambers Grows With Further Addition
FortyEight Shortland Barristers has continued to grow since its establishment in 2018, with former Russell McVeagh Senior Associate Patrick Senior joining the group. FortyEight currently have 14 barristers working from Chambers focused on commercial and regulatory work. Patrick Senior has handled work in environmental law, urban development, climate change and related matters. He moved to
Capital Lawyers Come Out of Retirement To Battle Out-of-Control Wellington Council
The shambolic proceedings in Wellington’s endless earthquake strengthening and bicycle lane obsession has brought two retired lawyers to the forefront of a new activism to attempt to provide some measure of common sense to the capital’s parlous state. The much-vaunted pedestrianization of the ‘Golden Mile’, part of an attempt to get Wellington moving, but which
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VUW Law Professor Becomes Dean of Law, Canterbury University
Professor Petra Butler has been appointed Dean of Law at the University of Canterbury. A faculty member at the School of Law at Victoria University since February 2000 at the Faculty of Law, she also holds the positions of Director of the Institute of Small and Micro-States and Fellow at the British Institute of International
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