Powered By LawFuel – With this initial five year contract, DWF will become a provider of insurance and real estate legal services to BT. A number of staff from BT’s in-house Claims and Corporate Property teams will transfer from BT to DWF in the fourth quarter of 2019. DWF will use its Complex, Managed and Connected Services platforms to
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Powered By LawFuel– Yvette McGee Brown, Jones Day’s Partner-in-Charge of Diversity, Inclusion & Advancement and a partner in the Firm’s Business & Tort Litigation Practice, has been named to Savoy Magazine‘s list of the 2019 Most Influential Women in Corporate America. The Savoy selection committee includes its editorial board and community leaders with representatives from the academic and
Property expert makes Partner in latest wave of firm promotions Powered By LawFuel – July 2019 – Leading national law firm Kensington Swan has promoted commercial property expert Michelle Hill to Partner. Michelle joins partners Matthew Ockleston and Paula Ormandy in leading the Auckland property team, which has seen significant recent growth and is part
London ‘celebrity barrister’, sometimes referred to as the ‘chemsex barrister’, after supplying his teenage boyfriend with drugs that lead to his death, has been suspended again after returning only recently to the bar following his first suspension. Henry Hendron, who has represented Conservative MP Nadine Dorries and former Apprentice contestant Stella English in earlier cases,
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The sudden death of highly experienced Christchurch barrister Tim Fournier has left colleagues and family mourning the death of the popular lawyer. He died on Friday after reportedly being injured in a fall. Known as both a cheerful and engaging personality, as well as a savvy and successful criminal defence lawyer, Fournier had been involved in
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WRMK Lawyers Welcome Lawyer to Dargaville Team Powered By LawFuel -WRMK Lawyers is delighted to welcome Ihapera (Pera) Paniora to its team of Dargaville lawyers. Pera is a member of WRMK’s dispute resolution team, and has a particular interest in providing employment law advice and support. She has previously worked at other smaller Dargaville firms
When the law firm founder leaves the room you know your law firm has some problems and in the case of LeClairRyan that appears to be the case. Founding partner Gary LeClair is leaving his firm along with two other partners, following a raft of departures from the firm. Last yeaar almost 10 per cent
NewLaw firm Nexus Law Group intends expanding its footprint in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and has moved to a new national headquarters in Sydney, which opened on 21 July. The firm has also opened an office in South Australia following the addition of Tim Donlan, a trust law expert. Donlan said that he is excited
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Stepping Up The Diversity Pace There is great huffing and puffing about what law firms are doing in the diversity space and Whitney & Dorsey have not exactly lead the pack, ranking at 141st place for Am Law’s 2019 Diversity Scorecard recently. But times are changing and the firm is now introducing a new ‘diversity hours’
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Decision-Makers Speak Out: Content Works Best When It’s Actionable Powered By LawFuel – According to the newly-released survey on digital content marketing, decision-makers in corporate legal departments and across the C-suite point to ‘utility’ rather than the length of content or the headline, that most attracts them to a piece of content. But while
