Legal jobs are up in New Zealand by almost 30 per cent according to TradeMe Jobs’ report, a fact borne out by an increase in law job listings on the LawFuel law jobs site, too. The TradeMe Jobs figures showed an overall increase in jobs of over 12 per cent in the three months to
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LawVision – Can it really be Fall again? Some of us have hardly noticed, being more astonished by the Cubs in the playoffs, or perhaps dismayed by the upcoming US election. But law firm leaders know it. As we enter October, firms are gearing up their year-end efforts – budgeting, rate setting, collections, and starting
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Skadden Arps – On September 20, 2016, Skadden presented a seminar titled “Government Enforcement Investigations – Trends and Perspectives from the UK, US and China” in London. The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight Mark Steward gave introductory remarks. A panel discussion followed, moderated by Keith Krakaur, who heads Skadden’s
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Arnall Golden Gregory – Tenet Healthcare Corporation, an investor-owned healthcare services company based in Texas, and two of its Atlanta-based subsidiaries have entered into an agreement with the government to resolve criminal charges and civil claims stemming from a scheme to defraud the United States and to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). Under the agreement,
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Slater and Gordon, the law firm poster child-turned basket case, has been a shocking example of how law firms might ‘go public’ and embrace the new age of deregulated law practice, drowning in a sea of debt and bad news days. Since buying listed firm Quindell, Slater and Gordon’s fortunes turned south spectacularly with much
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A rape allegation brought against Donald Trump has received a status conference hearing in December from a Federal Judge, Ronnie Abrams. The claim relates to a “Jane Doe” claim filed by a complainant who alleges Trump raped her when she was 13 in the 1990 and has now received an amended complaint from a witness “Jane
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When looking for better search engine visibility for your law firm’s website, one of the key tactics necessary is using the correct keywords. Google’s front page is a leaderboard, with the pages ranked 1 – 10. Good keyword research and competitor ‘spying’ combined with great content will serve to lift your law firm up
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has captured attention on a number of fronts – including how she lives her life – but now an interview with the 83 year old US Supreme Court justice has thrown some keenly-observed light upon what is necessary to bring up a strong daughter. The interview with the New York Times
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Schumaker Loop & Kendrick – The lawsuit against the NCAA over whether Division I men’s basketball and football players can be compensated for the commercial use of their names, images and likenesses came to an abrupt end on Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court denied petitions by both O’Bannon and the NCAA to review the
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Payment of interns working at law firms has stirred up plenty of controversy in recent times and a LinkedIn article from writer and author Justin Bariso has pointed out some “wage slavery” that may be going on with New York law firms encouraged not to pay interns, but to collect the fees they generate. There
