Dan Garner – The leakage from the once ‘fastest growing law firm in the world’ – aka Pierce Bainbridge, continues as six partners have left since August, with some being short-term stayers. A Law.com report quoted Pierce managing partner and former tank commander John Pierce (left) saying: “not everyone is cut out for SEAL training […]
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Hawkes Bay based and Japanese owned forestry and timber products company Pan Pac Forest Products Limited has received the first forestry standing consent under the Overseas Investment Act, with top law firm MinterEllisonRuddWatts advising throughout the process. Under the changes to the Overseas Investment Act introduced in 2018, a standing consent enables overseas persons like
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Revamp of guidelines for meth sentencing welcomed The New Zealand Bar Association welcomes a Court of Appeal decision which gives detailed guidance on sentencing people convicted of offences related to the importation, manufacture and supply of methamphetamine. The court accepted submissions by both the New Zealand Bar Association and the New Zealand Law Society that
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Innocence Project See Release of Willie Veasy Powered By LawFuel –Willie Veasy, a Philadelphia man first convicted of murder in 1993, has been cleared this week of all charges and freed thanks to Jim Figorski and Christine Levin of Dechert and the Pennsylvania Innocence Project at Temple University Beasley School of Law. This is Jim
Attorney, Female Founder & Blogger Rachel Rodgers Karin Conroy* Many female founders in the law industry face unique challenges that result in a refined ability to manage their time and effectively build their own firm. Throughout their career, they have learned that there is great value in learning the effective measures of juggling a career
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27 Mark Weenink October 29, 2018 by LawFuel Editors (Edit) Bankers to the Government and another of the banks to be facing the regulatory fire coming from the Reserve Bank, former Minter Ellison Rudd Watts managing partner Mark Weenink sits on the bank’s management team. Holding the title of General Manager,Regulatory Affairs, Compliance & General Counsel New
20 Martin Smith IRD legal boss Martin Smith has one of the most influential and largest in-house legal teams in the country under his management. Formerly a tax consulting partner in a major accounting practice in Sydney and Director of Taxation Research for Ernst & Young in New Zealand, he has degrees from Adelaide University
The DLA Piper partner who accused colleague and DLA Piper partner Louis Lehot of sexually assaulting her has been placed on leave herself. The firm said that it was placing Vanina Guerrero on paid leave while it investigates “serious issues” with her conduct that it called unrelated to her accusations against Lehot. Guerrero had earlier
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(October 17, 2019, Ft. Lauderdale, FL) — Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP (KDV), a leading national law firm, today announced that it is expanding in Florida with the opening of an Orlando office and adding litigation Partner Abbye E. Alexander and Associates Andrew L. Burnstine and Christopher J. Perini. The firm opened its first Florida office in
Esteemed Foreign Legal Consultant Bolsters Firm’s International Capabilities MIAMI (Oct. 17, 2019) – Foley & Lardner LLP is pleased to announce that attorney Pedro Romano Fragoso Pires, a veteran foreign legal consultant, has joined the firm as a member of its Business Law Department. With more than 25 years of legal experience, Fragoso Pires advises U.S. and foreign
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