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

>> 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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Best Lawyers in America 2025 Shows The Changing Dynamic of the US Legal Market

Featured, Press Releases, Rankings, US Law / August 19, 2024

What Does The 2025 ‘Best Lawyers’ Tell Us About the US Law Business? Tom Borman It’s a big job – to say the least – selecting the best lawyers in America but who better than the leading directory called ‘Best Lawyers in America’? What is perhaps more interesting is the changing landscape in the US,

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Lawyer of the Year Natalie Coates Joins Chambers

New Zealand Law News, Rankings / August 19, 2024

Natalie Coates, LawFuel’s 2023 Lawyer of the Year, is leaving Kāhui Legal, the boutique firm specializing in Māori legal issues, to join Thorndon Chambers. Thorndon Chambers has 21 barristers, headed by Sir Terence Arnold KC, and specializes in commercial, international and public law issues. >> Latest Law Jobs on New Zealand’s Best Law News &

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Johnny Depp Trial Law Star Camille Vasquez Moves

BigLaw, Rankings, US Law / August 19, 2024

The ‘Johnny Depp’ Effect of Reputation Management Ben Thomson, Senior legal contributor Camille Vasquez, who rose to fame with her defense of Johnny Depp in his case against Amber Heard, has moved firms in a move that reflects the growing importance of reputation management in litigation. The Johnny Depp case was something of a high

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The Mesothelioma Lawyer List: New York’s Winning Asbestos Attorneys

Featured, Rankings, US Law / August 15, 2024

Mesothelioma Attorneys New York Winners List Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Seeking the best mesothelioma lawyers in New York is always made easier with a Forbes List and for 2024 the company has provided just that. New York ranks fourth in the U.S. for asbestos-related deaths, with significant numbers of deaths occurring in counties like

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NZ Law – Russell McVeagh Lands in Queenstown

New Zealand Law News, Rankings, Russell McVeagh / August 15, 2024

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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Environmental Litigation ‘Star’ Makes Law Firm Move

Rankings, US Law / August 5, 2024

Paul Hastings Hire Top Litigation Lawyer One of the leading environmental litigation lawyers in the US, Brian D. Israel, has joined Paul Hastings LLP as a partner and co-head of the firm’s environmental litigation practice. He has particular expertise in handling complex environmental litigation, particularly in the areas of Natural Resource Damages claims and major

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Investigation Into Law Society President Commenced

New Zealand Law News, Rankings / August 1, 2024

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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Law Star Sachdev Strikes Again For Paul Weiss, London

BigLaw, Rankings, UK Law / August 1, 2024

The Latest Paul Weiss Hire Paul Weiss continues to boost its London office with yet another hire – and yet another from their now-standard recruitment target: Kirkland & Ellis. The firm has recruited Jeremy Leggate, an investment funds partner, who has a substantial client base. He has previously been an associate with both Sidley Austin

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“Formula for Disaster” And The Lawyer Who Gave Abbott’s $495M Gut-Punch in Baby Formula Lawsuit

Rankings, US Law / July 30, 2024

Lawyer Jake Plattenberger told the jury to ‘make it hurt’ when they awarded their almost half-billion dollar award against Abbott Laboratories Inc. And hurt it did. In a plot twist worthy of a John Grisham novel, Abbott Laboratories just got served a financial bottle they can’t return with the massive baby formula verdict Plattenberger achieved

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