Chief Justice Dame Helen Winkelmann may have only been in the top legal role for over three years, but her impact has been pronounced in areas ranging from access to justice issues to digitisation programmes. Negotiating the Covid pandemic has been a major challenge, which has been compounded – or exacerbated – by the increase […]
A former sports lawyer who worked with sports management group IMG in London has joined law firm Gibson Sheat handling clients including the Wellington Phoenix FC and Basketball New Zealand. Tenille Burnside had previously worked in Auckland for Russell McVeagh and also handles work involving technology, start-ups and other clients. In 2020 she completed a
Profile lawyer and Power List member Mai Chen has apparently closed her law firm, established with Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC in 1994, becoming Public Law Toolbox Chambers. The Chen Palmer website now directs to the new ‘Toolbox Chambers’ site. There is no reference to the former firm’s disappearance as a branded boutique that was proudly
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The growth of Tompkins Wake – a 700 per cent growth rate across its Waikato-Bay of Plenty base and including Auckland – has seen a new Chair bring new energy to the role as the firm looks towards its 100th anniversary. Scott Ratuki has been a partner at the firm for 13 years and has
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>> Latest Law Jobs on LawFuel In-house lawyers will benefit from a new partnership agreement signed this month between the In-House Lawyers Association of New Zealand (ILANZ) and insurance and investments provider MAS. While the two organisations have collaborated for several years, the new partnership will see the organisations work on a long-term programme of activities to support
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How Climate Change & the Sustainability Mandate are Changing how Law Firms Operate Frankie McKeefry moved from public sector law reform, to Interpol, then Corporate before now working to evolving business for the 21st century. The increasing focus in business on climate, sustainability and related issues is no longer the focus of the occasional ‘greenie’
Auckland barrister Tudor Clee, who has been assisting journalist Charlotte Bellis with her attempts to return home to give birth to her child, told Radio New Zealand he had been asked for similar help from around 30 pregnant women seeking to return home. Clee told RNZ there were around 200 women who had been in
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Former Waitangi Tribunal member and Labour Minister Michael Bassett writes about the Maori ‘power grab’ for local government under the report with “flatulent phrases and portentous utterances” on proposed local government law reform and the politics behind it, saying it is ‘racially-charged’ legislation. Michael Bassett* Recently we saw how the government’s proposed health structural reforms
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Candice Harris & Jarrod Haar* – Internationally, and especially within the US, there has been a lot of talk about the so-called “great resignation” – the trend seeing large numbers of workers leaving their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic, having reevaluated their priorities or simply because there are more opportunities than ever before. While there
She’s been dubbed the ‘Diva of Divorce’, but Aryesha Vardag the UK divorce law supremo is actually more than just a top divorce lawyer handling major matrimonial splits, she is truly a ‘femme fatale’ of divorce law. She keeps her client list secret, but has at different times represented celebrities, royalty, footballers, entrepreneurs and
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