Cleary Gottlieb partners Claudia Annacker and Ferdinando Emanuele have been lauded as 2019 “Lawyers of the Year” and the firm’s Italy and France offices were named “Firms of the Year” at the inaugural Benchmark Litigation Europe Awards. The winning national firm and lawyer awards are: Claudia Annacker: France Lawyer of the Year Ferdinando Emanuele: Italy Lawyer of
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The Associate Minister of Justice, Aupito William Sio, has today announced the appointment of five Deputy Chairpersons to the Human Rights Review Tribunal to ensure that people have greater access to justice and that their voices are heard. “This Government has acknowledged the unacceptable backlog of cases before the Human Rights Review Tribunal that developed
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Employee retention strategies a priority as 53 percent of Australian legal firms plan for growth in 2019 The 2019 ALPMA Australian Legal Industry Salary & HR Issues Survey reveals that, in addition to employment projections remaining positive (53% of law firms expecting to grow employment at their firms in 2019, compared with 42% in 2018),
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Former District Court Judge Tony Lendrum had been a mediator for many years before his judicial appointment and now, having returned to his mediation practice, is busier than ever. The Hawkes Bay-based mediator has worked nationally and handled over 1200 mediations and judicial settlement conferences. Recognised as one of the country’s leading family law mediators,
Continuing his pre-eminent role in New Zealand mediation, Warren Sowerby has over 2000 mediations to his credit and his mediation success has extended well beyond New Zealand, with mediations in Asia, Australia, the UK, US and Russia. A ‘high stakes’ mediator, Warren Sowerby has developed a practice that has seen him trusted to help resolve
Freshfields’ announcement to significantly push up its associate pay is a major and dramatic move by the giant law firm. The announcement from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was the highest real term pay rise by any large City firm for a decade and takes the rate for a newly qualified lawyer from £85,000 to £100,000. The
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Jeremy Ford, a lawyer at Juno Legal is the winner of the 2019 award. He is currently engaged in-house at the Overseas Investment Office and was nominated in his previous role as General Council, Earthquake Commission. The judges said the award recognises the significant impact that he made through his work at EQC – an
Ali Kourani Was Trained by Hizballah’s External Terrorist Operations Component and Gathered Intelligence in New York City in Support of Attack-Planning Efforts Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a jury returned a guilty verdict today against Ali Kourani, a/k/a “Ali Mohamad Kourani,” a/k/a “Jacob Lewis,”
Former Court of Appeal Judges Justice Lynn Stevens and Justice John Wild have been re-sworn in as Court of Appeal judges. The Judges were sworn in at the beginning of May for a 12 month term. Justice Stevens was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1997 and High Court Judge in 2006. He was a Court of
The Commerce Commission has closed its investigation into David Ferrier’s acquisition of a 70% equity interest in Cavalier Wool Holdings Limited as its concerns with the transaction have been addressed. In October last year the Commission opened an investigation of the acquisition under section 47 of the Commerce Act. The Commission was concerned that the
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