Minnesota Jury Delivers $65.5 Million Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson December 19, 2025 PAUL, Minn. – A Minnesota jury awarded $65.5 million to a 37-year-old mother of three minor children after finding in her favor in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, concluding that the company’s talc products exposed her to asbestos and contributed to […]
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Article source: Koffell Brininger Nesbit, Law Firm OH Columbus is a city bustling with vibrant neighborhoods, busy streets, and a dynamic nightlife that attracts residents and visitors alike. With this energy comes a heightened need for awareness around driving laws, particularly those concerning driving under the influence (DUI). Facing a DUI charge in Columbus can
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Article source: Books Law Group Legal issues are difficult for anybody without expertise in the area, with the American Bar Association reporting that self-represented litigants face significantly lower success rates in civil proceedings. According to recent legal research, represented parties are 5 times more likely to achieve favorable outcomes compared to those without legal counsel,
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NZ Law’s Power Lawyer List 2025 By John Bowie, LawFuel Publisher | The 2025 LawFuel Power List delivers its usual cocktail of institutional heavyweights, courtroom titans, regulatory shock troops, and a few strategists whose influence is quiet but devastatingly real. It’s opinionated, occasionally provocative, and guaranteed to irritate at least some of the people who
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LawFuel Power List 2005 No. 35 As General Counsel and Company Secretary for ANZ Bank New Zealand, overseeing the legal and corporate governance framework for the country’s largest bank, David Bricklebank’s position on the list reflects his sway over legal affairs. His role places him at the centre of complex regulatory, conduct and governance demands,
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 11 Russell secured a $135.6 million ASB settlement in October 2025, one of New Zealand’s largest banking payouts without a liability admission, after four years of class action litigation over Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act disclosure breaches. The ANZ case continues. That’s plaintiff-side power: making banks sweat, resisting retrospective
LawFuel Power List No. 7 Chang moves up three spots because the SFO under her leadership stopped resembling a bureaucratic afterthought and started resembling a threat. Foreign-bribery whistleblower platforms, Ponzi plea deals, sustained prosecutions of corporate fraud—2025 saw the SFO prosecuting with a swagger that’s been absent for years. The Court of Appeal’s criticism in
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 8 LawFuel’s 2024 Lawyer of the Year, Ron Mansfield’s defence of eye surgeon Philip Polkinghorne in the 2024 murder trial was New Zealand’s highest-profile criminal case in a generation—eight weeks of wall-to-wall media coverage, a jury note revealing “most people don’t think there’s enough evidence to support suicide” but acquitting
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 9 Redington oversees one of New Zealand’s largest legal teams (70+ lawyers) and the IRD’s digital transformation—one of the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest government IT projects. That’s not glamorous work, but it’s power: tax revenue ($116 billion annually) funds everything from hospitals to highways, and Redington’s team interprets the Inland Revenue
