Highly regarded litigator, Cecil Hanafin, has joined Anthony Harper as a partner in the litigation team. Hanafin has almost 20 years’ experience, including more than a decade at New Zealand law firms and, most recently, five years as a barrister at Canterbury Chambers, one of the leading sets of independent barristers’ chambers in the South Island.
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Ratepayers across Tauranga are picking up a legal and professional advice bill exceeding $1.2 million in the aftermath of the fatal Mauao (Mount Maunganui) landslide, highlighting the mounting exposure and legal complexities facing local authorities in disaster response.
Figures presented to the Tauranga City Council (TCC) reveal that responding to the tragic 22 January 2026 slip, which claimed six lives at the Mount Maunganui Beachside Holiday Park, has so far cost more than $5 million from the council’s $7 million emergency risk reserves.
Of that, professional advice and legal review expenses have rapidly spiralled past $1.7 million, with external counsel and legal support alone accounting for well over $1.2 million.
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King & Spalding is making a conspicuously expensive-looking play for global arbitration dominance. Its latest recruit is Thomas Voisin, former managing partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Paris office, who joins after handling more than 100 commercial and investment arbitrations. Voisin becomes the ninth international disputes partner recruited in just three months. The real statement came earlier
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Power Point: South African lawyer and former politician Mathews Phosa pursued an unusual approach to legal fees: helping mining communities secure and develop mineral rights and, in some cases, taking equity rather than conventional fees. Decades later, his business interests stretch across mining, forestry, logistics and other sectors, although claims about the precise size of
The winners of the 2026 Queensland Law Society (QLS) Excellence in Law Awards were announced at the annual Awards Gala held at The Star Brisbane on Saturday 22 August 2026. The event recognised outstanding contributions across 12 categories, highlighting dedication, innovation, leadership, access to justice, and service to the Queensland legal community and the public.
Power Point – Tony Buzbee’s latest River Oaks acquisition isn’t simply another trophy-home purchase. The Houston trial lawyer is assembling a two-acre estate by demolishing a 15,000-square-foot neighbouring mansion, while salvaging an estimated $4 million of its contents and building gardens in its place. It is an unusually vivid glimpse of the wealth generated at
It’s all good news for US law firms’ for the first half of 2026 – revenues up (12.4%) and a sharp prise in demand – but that’s not the full picture yet as the second half of the year will tell the story about whether US lawyers are having a great year, or just a
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McGuireWoods congratulates former Deputy Managing Partner Todd Steggerda, who was sworn in on Monday as the new U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. Ambassador Steggerda held key firm leadership roles since joining McGuireWoods in 2015. Leveraging his experience as a United States
New Zealand’s proposed under-16 social media restrictions have acquired something governments generally prefer legislation not to have, which is having lawyers asking awkward questions about how they will actually work. The Government’s Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill would require operators of designated social media platforms to take reasonable steps to
Paul, Weiss has recruited prominent Supreme Court and appellate advocate William M. Jay from Goodwin Proctor to lead its Washington, D.C.-based Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation Practice. A former Assistant to the Solicitor General and clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, Jay brings deep high-court credentials, having argued 19 cases before the US Supreme Court and
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