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DLA Piper Africa partners with Olympic gold medallist and African sprint sensation Letsile Tebogo

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DLA Piper’s Olympian Partnership DLA Piper Africa is proud to announce its partnership with 2024 Olympic Gold medallist and African sprint sensation, Letsile Tebogo. Under its partnership, DLA Piper Africa will be Tebogo’s official legal sponsor, providing the 21-year-old Motswana sprinter with legal services locally in Botswana, across Africa and globally. Born in Kanye, Botswana, […]

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New Zealand Legal Job Market: A Diverse Landscape of Opportunities

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NZ Law Job Opportunities The legal job market in New Zealand is currently bustling with a wide array of opportunities for legal professionals at various stages of their careers, based on the recent listings shown on the LawFuel Law Jobs network. From fresh graduates to seasoned experts, the recent job listings on LawFuel showcase the

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ComCom Banking Report Hypocritical, Says Credit Expert

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NZ Needs Fewer Banks, Not More Introducing more competition into the New Zealand banking sector would be served by fewer banks and more ‘nano banks’, says the CEO of a specialist credit risk firm. Meurig Chapman said the Commerce Commission report was merely paying lip service to the concept of competition in the banking market.

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“Communist Judge” Comment Leads To Legal Complaints To Attorney General

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>> Latest Law Jobs Here . . New Jobs Daily Comments by Shane Jones that Justice Cheryl Gwyn was “a Communist Judge’ have lead to the inevitable criticism and complaints from lawyers. Justice Gwyn, appointed to the High Court in 2019, was formerly the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security. A former partner at both Chapman

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New Zealand Law Profession Sees Women Stopped At the Boardroom Door

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New Zealand Law Gender Equality Report The New Zealand Law Society’s 2023 Gender Equality Charter (GEC) survey reveals that women comprise over half the profession (55.4 percent) but their representation often stops at the boardroom door. It is, as it is in many jurisdictions, a ‘room for improvement’ report. The New Zealand Law Society report,

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NZ Law News – Establishment Auckland Law Firms Including Billionaire Lawyer’s To Merge

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>> Check your new law job on New Zealand’s best law jobs network Auckland firms Glaister Ennor and Keegan Alexander are to merge in December, combining two mid-level power players in the Auckland legal market. The firms have a substantial history between them with Glaister Ennor, with 12 partners and over 60 staff and 100 years’ history while Keegan

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NZ Law – Russell McVeagh Lands in Queenstown

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Russell McVeagh Opens First South Island Office Russell McVeagh is set to expand to the South Island, opening an office in Queenstown headed by local lawyer Tony Van Aart of Van Aart Sycamore Lawyers, the Dunedin-based commercial law boutique. The new office opens on 1 December and will take existing staff members from Van Aart

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Investigation Into Law Society President Commenced

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The New Zealand Law Society has initiated an investigation into New Zealand Law Society president Frazer Barton with two private complaints against him being lodged with the Society. The investigations come in the wake of Barton’s connection to the destruction of documents by Presbyterian Support Otago, as detailed in the final report of the Royal

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New Zealand Law: LawFuel 2024 Law Job Survey

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Lawyer Tug-of-War: NZ Law Firms Battle Global Competition for Legal Talent The legal law jobs landscape in New Zealand in 2024 is characterized by intense competition for top talent, including from overseas, with firms and in-house teams experiencing significant challenges in attracting and retaining skilled lawyers.  The 2024 LawFuel law job survey shows that there

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