The LawFuel List of the most ‘female-friendly’ law firms in 2017, measuring the number of female partners, principals and/or directors, was taken as at the end of September 2017. Note that ‘partners’ incorporates also non-salaried partners and the other ‘principal’ positions in law firms). Percentages have been rounded to the nearest number. The Female Friendly […]
Russell McVeagh partner and former chair Pip Greenwood, sitting at Number 16 on LawFuel list of New Zealand’s 50 most powerful lawyers, has been appointed to the board of Spark New Zealand. She become an independent non-executive director on 1 April 2018. “Following the retirement of Mark Verbiest, we were looking for relevant skills
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Among Australia’s most powerful lawyers, a LawFuel Power Selection of some of the most prominent – Allan Fels Professor Allan Herbert Miller Fels AO is regarded as the country’s leading regulator. An Australian economist, lawyer and public servant he is best known for his job as chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from
A new initiative to increase the lead role of women in the legal profession is being launched today in a joint initiative between the New Zealand Law Society and the New Zealand Bar Association. The move seeks to have women taking the lead in 30 per cent of litigation, arbitration and related proceedings within one
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The Law Society have announced that Auckland barrister Anthony David Banbrook has been struck off following a hearing on 2 November. Mr Banbrook had been a director of failed finance firm National Finance and in 2013 was sentenced to eight and a half months’ home detention and ordered to pay reparations of $75,000 for making an
The leading law firm is pleased to welcome to the Russell McVeagh partnership Cameron Law, who joins the firm from the transport sector, together with homegrown talents Ben Paterson and Joe Edwards. Russell McVeagh Board Chair, David Hoare says, “The firm is proud to welcome Cameron to the firm’s Environment, Planning and Natural Resources team,
Chapman Tripp is pleased to announce the appointment of three new partners, effective 1 December 2017. In the Auckland office, Hamish Bolland becomes a property partner. In our Wellington office, Lucy Cooper becomes a competition and regulatory partner, and Tim Sherman a commercial and technology, media and communications partner. Auckland Hamish Bolland, Construction and Major
Green MP and lawyer Golriz Ghahraman entered the age-old area of being criticised for representing “guilty” parties with criticism leveled at her by former Labour Party staffer Phil Quinn who criticised the new MP over the ‘moral and conscious’ choice’ in who she defended. The MP rejected accusations she is a “genocide denier” after
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Voice recognition technology has come a long way in recent years. Nuance Dragon Legal is the market leader and LawFuel took the opportunity to interview Asia Pacific Business manager for the company to find out exactly how the latest version is changing the way lawyers work – and what’s in store. Q & A for
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Launching tonight at an event hosted by leading law firm Russell McVeagh, the New Zealand Women’s Law Journal — Te Aho Kawe Kaupapa Ture a ngā Wāhine is a first for New Zealand’s legal profession as the only academic publication solely dedicated to publishing and supporting the work of women lawyers in the country. Berkeley,
