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Another Meredith Connell Exit As Jacob Barry Joins Boutique Litigation Bench

New Zealand Law News, NZ Power Law Firms, Press Releases / May 27, 2026

Jacob Barry is the latest senior litigator to depart Meredith Connell, adding further weight to the ongoing questions around the Crown Solicitor firm’s ability to retain top-tier talent, or whether the move signals a strategic slimming of the firm. Now joining Lindsay Francis & Mangan’s Auckland office as a partner, Barry brings a well-established reputation […]

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NZ Law News – Bar Association warns of growing risks to rule of law

New Zealand Law News, New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / May 25, 2026

The New Zealand Bar Association | Ngā Ahorangi Motuhake o te Ture is urging the Government to reconsider proposed legislation by taking a broader view of long-term effects of making such retrospective laws. >> NZ Law Jobs here The Government has said that it intends to introduce legislation to prevent the courts from deciding claims

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Crown Jewel or Holding Pattern? The Meredith Connell Question Won’t Go Away

Law Firms, New Zealand Law News, New Zealand Law News / May 20, 2026

Three more senior litigators have walked from MC to Richmond Chambers. The pattern is now too consistent to be coincidence – and it sharpens a question the firm still hasn’t answered: is the Crown warrant a launchpad, or a liferaft? John Bowie Meredith Connell, New Zealand’s oldest Crown Solicitor’s office and, by its own count,

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NZ’s Legal Market Recovery Has Started But Don’t Expect Champagne In The Boardroom Yet

New Zealand Law News, NZ Press Releases, Press Releases / May 19, 2026

New Zealand’s legal hiring market is finally recovering, but it is a selective, skills‑driven rebound rather than a broad-based boom. >> Law Roles on LawFuel Recent commentary from recruiters confirms that litigation, disputes, employment, banking and finance, and governance/regulatory roles are leading the upturn. LawNews reports “green shoots” in legal recruitment, with strongest demand over

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Silks, Supremacy, and Sleepless Nights – Inside Chris Bishop’s Playbook as Attorney-General

New Zealand Law News, New Zealand Law News / May 14, 2026

If you want to understand the constitutional worldview of New Zealand’s brand new Attorney-General, look no further than his Beehive office wall. Taking pride of place is a framed copy of Fitzgerald v Muldoon, the landmark 1976 ruling that removed all doubt about Parliament’s role as the country’s paramount law-making body. “The judgment’s laid out

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FNZ’s US$4.6b Class Action – Inside the Employee Shareholder Revolt

New Zealand Law News, New Zealand Law News, Press Releases, Russell McVeagh / May 13, 2026

A colossal US$4.6 billion (about NZ$7.7 billion) class action against global wealth‑tech group FNZ has opened in the New Zealand High Court, immediately triggering a fierce procedural fight over whether the dispute belongs in Wellington’s courtroom or behind closed doors in offshore arbitration rooms in London. Billed as one of the largest corporate shareholder actions

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MinterEllison Slashing Graduate Jobs: Is AI Replacing Junior Lawyers?

Australia Law News, Featured, Law Firms, Legal AI, MinterEllisonRuddWatts, New Zealand Law News / May 11, 2026

AI is Eating the Entry-level Lunch For years, partners have whispered about how many juniors they actually need if a machine can read 10,000 documents in an hour. This week, MinterEllison in Australia stopped whispering and started acting. The firm has effectively put the Australian legal market on notice, slashing its 2025-26 graduate intake by

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NZ Lawyer News – Cavell Leitch Recruits former Minters Partner to Launch Wellington Office

New Zealand Law News, New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / May 7, 2026

Christchurch-based Cavell Leitch is opening its Wellington office, recruiting Rodney Craig, formerly with MinterEllisonRuddWatts is to set up the capital office. The thirteen-principal firm has focused on organic growth and is seeking to grow its business with the latest announcement. Craig was a partner at MinterEllisonRuddWatts for 14 years and was previously a partner at

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Doing the Mahi on Maiki: How TVNZ Tried to Bury Its Own Scandal

Law Firms, New Zealand Law News, New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / May 6, 2026

John Bowie, LawFuel publisher It takes a certain perverted genius for the state broadcaster to threaten to sue a commercial rival over what it primly calls an “employment matter”. But here we are with the Maiki Sherman affair, something Maiki herself might term ‘Faggotgate’ should she be on the right side of the debacle. It’s

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NZ Law – Chapman Tripp’s New Podcast Series

Chapman Tripp, New Zealand Law News, New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / May 5, 2026

In what feels like the legal sector’s latest bid to colonise every available earbud, Chapman Tripp has dipped its toes into the podcast waters with The Special Conditions. Because, of course, what New Zealand’s infrastructure industry really needed was yet another podcast. Chapman Tripp have already dived into podcasting with The Aotearoa Circle (with Alana

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