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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Bell Gully is delighted to announce the appointment of two new partners, two special counsel, and nine senior associates. The new partners are experienced corporate lawyer Chris Hodges and litigation lawyer Brad Ward. “We are pleased to welcome Chris and Brad to the partnership. Both have contributed significantly to the firm over a long period of time,
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Jim Farmer QC writes on the rules committee reforms after COVID and asks whether it will improve or hinder access to justice
Law Star Judy Sheindlin, aka Judge Judy, as granted her alma mater, New York Law School, a $5 million scholarship for female law student. Sheindlin, one of television’s wealthiest stars after 25 years on her famed show, as well as books, television production and law, with a personal wealth estimated at around $440 million. The
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Kevin Downey, a partner at the Washington law firm Williams & Connolly, is the lead lawyer for Holmes. Robert Leach, an assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of California, will lead the prosecution for the government, along with other prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office. Holmes, a Stanford University dropout who founded Theranos
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The New Zealand Power Lawyers missing from the Herald’s ‘Power List’
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Bobbi Sternheim, LawFuel Law Star, is a tough and experienced New York-based trial lawyer who has handled major criminal and civil defense work
The recent ranking of the ‘Elite Women’ in law for 2021 is another ranking survey that sought to identify “exceptional female leaders” in the law who showed standout achievements. Whilst somewhat nebulous, the list of women included hardly any from the LawFuel Power List and included 13 partners, 11 ‘C suite executives’, nine counsel and
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Chapman Tripp is stoked and stunned to have won New Zealand Law Firm of the Year for the sixth consecutive year in the KangaNews Awards for the Australian and New Zealand debt markets. The winners are decided purely on the votes of market participants. KangaNews does not employ an awards committee or ask for awards pitches.
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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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