The majority of serious crime victims lack faith in the justice system and feel justice was not served in their case, according to new research released by Victim Support. Victim Support released preliminary findings from the study at the two-day Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata Safe and Effective Justice: Strengthening the Criminal Justice System for
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Charles Needham* The Practice of law is increasingly doing away with the notion that ‘lawyers’ in the conventional sense are the ones to provide the advice businesses and people require. The need for lawyers is diminishing, with the onset of technology and ‘new-model legal providers’, who are now handling business and personal issues in a
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FOLEY ADDS FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL CAPUANO IN BOSTON BOSTON, MASS. – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that former U.S. Congressman Michael Capuano has joined the firm’s Government Solutions Practice as a public affairs director, splitting his time between the firm’s Boston and Washington D.C. offices. He joins Foley’s team of former Congressmen, which includes public affairs directors Dennis Cardoza and Scott Klug,
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Diminutive music lawyer Farrah Usmani is stepping into a new world. The 5 foot, 3 inch , 135 lb Loeb & Loeb music lawyer, Farrah “H-Town Hustler” Usmani, will enter the ring tonight to take on Jenny Sciullo to raise money for the Nashville-area charity, The Charley Foundation. As the headline fight, the women have already raised
Lime scooters have been in the news with wheel-locks and gridlocks with Councils, but one law firm has trialled them successfully . . in their own offices. Dunedin’s Jenny Beck Law have been scooting the corridors of law after discarding the idea of taking Limes to the Emerson’s brewery on eight Limes. Instead they took
John Bowie – The Mainzeal case was a win for litigation funder LPF Group, which hit the trifecta after succeeding in the PSA kiwifruit case and the earlier settlement in the PwC claim involving Dave Henderson’s property group. But it will also place litigation funding into sharp relief with the Law Commission’s imminent review of
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) has announced new leadership for its Global Financial Investors (GFI) group. The changes will see Charles Hayes take the helm as joint leader of the GFI group globally from 1 May 2019 alongside Markus Paul. In December this year, Arend von Riegen will succeed Markus whose term will end after
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LawFuel subscribers will recall our June 2018 article about London’s top-earning lawyers, which featured David Higgins, among others, who left Freshfields to join the aggressively expansive Kirkland & Ellis. Higgins, a private equity lawyer, made the move that some saw as insulting to his old firm and the Magic Circle, but it was nonetheless followed
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Seattle, February 26, 2019 – Buchalter is pleased to announce that the Seattle office has relocated to its permanent space in the premier downtown Seattle US Bank Centre located at 1420 5th Avenue, Suite 3100. “Finding a permanent home in Seattle has been a high priority for us. We chose US Bank Centre because of its location
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Today, technology law firm Simmonds Stewart launched its 2019 techlaw intern programme in conjunction with the Law School at the University of Auckland. The programme, first run in 2018, offers law students paid intern positions at companies in the high-growth tech sector. The programme is a first for New Zealand law students (and, as far
