Inaugural NAB Law Firm Survey Carries Some Salutary Messages for Lawyers Powered By LawFuel – Lawyers are critical to SMEs. But that doesn’t mean they get it right every time. In NAB’s inaugural Legal Services Industry Survey, we find out what SME clients really need, want and value – giving lawyers unique insights into how they […]
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New ‘Five Mile’ Premises for Growing Legal Leader Powered By LawFuel – We are all very excited at TODD & WALKER Law for the move into our new Five Mile premises on 9 September. This means that our Queenstown office located at Level 3, 36 Shotover Street and our Frankton office at Level 1 Aurum
New Zealand’s legal jobs continue to evolve with fascinating roles across multiple areas, reflecting a continued growth for in-house legal jobs in particular, say leading law jobs network, LawFuel. The growth in corporate lawyers in New Zealand has generally reflected a global trend towards significant growth in corporate or in-house legal teams. New Zealand has
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The Musical Barrister To Play a New Tune in Court Classical trumpeter, cathedral singer and rock band bass-playing barrister Jonathan Krebs of Napier has been made a District Judge along with Auckland lawyer Clare Bennett. Mr Krebs, who practices out of both Auckland and Napier, is best known in legal circles for his successful representation
Lane Neave advises on merger of New Zealand’s largest Credit Union Lane Neave advised three of four entities on a merger which has created New Zealand’s largest credit union. >> Commercial and private client job – Christchurch The transaction brings together Credit Union Baywide, Credit Union South, Credit Union Central and Aotearoa Credit Union following
Nola Dangen, a leading member of the Auckland District Law Society and a lawyer experienced in disciplinary and ethical matters through her Law Society work, has been suspended for two months for negligence “at the very high end of the negligence spectrum,” The suspension follows a ‘late’ admission of guilt and involves three apparent inaccurate
National law firm, Lane Neave, has acted for the family owned Sanderson Group on the sale of three large retirement villages to NZX listed company, Arvida Limited. Under the $180m deal, completed on 31 July 2019, the Sanderson Group sold Bethlehem Country Club and Bethlehem Shores in Tauranga, along with the Queenstown Country Club, which
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Powered by LawFuel – International law firm Shine Lawyers have appointed Angela Parlane to take over leadership of Shine Lawyers New Zealand, as former Managing Director Andrew Hooker announces his retirement. Ms Parlane joined Shine Lawyers New Zealand as a director in February 2018 having spent the eight years prior running her own boutique law
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Sir Robert Jones* writes about the planned class action against the ANZ Bank and its chances of success . . and the senior lawyer leading the charge. Since I wrote about the RAM, mug “investors” looking to blame the ANZ for their stupidity, it’s come to light that the instigators of this action, such as
“Female Friendly” DLA Piper Promotion Powered By LawFuel –DLA Piper New Zealand is pleased to announce the appointment of Alicia Murray to Partner. By any measure, DLA Piper is one of the most ‘female friendly’ big law firms in New Zealand. With Alicia’s promotion, 41% of partners are women. Alicia is President of the Auckland
