Latham Watkins – Throughout history, high profile court cases have capitaved the public. Historians still discuss the significance of the trials of Socrates and Galileo that occurred over 2000 and 1000 years ago respectively. And it seems that ever few years the news hits for th next “trial of the century.” When a company of
Cracking $3 billion in law firm revenues is a top effort on anyone’s count, but for Latham & Watkins there’s more to come, they say. The firm is currently Number 1 on Am Law 100 with $3.064 in 2017 revenues as reported by Law.com, with a seven percent increase in attorney numbers and with profits per partner
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Working in Taranaki, the Bay of Plenty or New Zealand’s beautiful, wild West Coast – all have legal jobs that have been listed on the LawFuel law jobs network. LawFuel’s rapidly expanding legal jobs network posts jobs not only to the main, law jobs site, but also via Facebook’s NZ law jobs groups, LinkedIN and
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Dentons has expanded its offering in Australia with partner Robyn Chatwood bringing her intellectual property expertise to the Melbourne office. Relocating from Dentons’ London office, Robyn brings a wealth of experience in both IP and IT, across franchising and distribution, commercial contracts and concession agreements, information technology and communications law, e-commerce law, data protection/privacy and
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Long serving, hard case Otago Law School Dean Mark Henaghan has called it a day after almost 50 years at his beloved university, including 19 years as dean of the law school. But his role as one of the country’s best known and most highly regarded legal academics is not forsaking legal education, having accepted
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A video-blogging (“vlogging”) lawyer providing tips for other juniors seeking to improve their chances of scoring a decent legal job has received a variety of oft-censored comments on the law blog speaking to the centre piece of the vlogging enterprise, Christie Wolfe. The article in Legal Cheek spoke to Wolfe, who works for person injury
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On February 20, Skadden secured the dismissal of a putative class action filed in the Supreme Court for the State of New York, New York County on behalf of Matthew Bender & Co. The three named plaintiffs alleged that one section of prior editions of Matthew Bender’s annual publication titled “New York Landlord Tenant Law”
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Tom Burnett, contributor – As if the #Metoo sex abuse issue is not enough, now leading law firm Russell McVeagh must concern itself with whether clients will head for the exit in the wake of the sexual assault claims in recent days. The most recent harassment claim against the firm related to “consensual sexual” encounters
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Over the past 20 years there have been a limited number of allegations of poor behaviour involving consensual sexual events including on our premises. A social media post has referred to one of these, which occurred more than 10 years ago. Due to the consensual nature of the event, a formal complaint was never made.
LawVision Group – On a recent business trip to Latin America I witnessed an interesting everyday event that directly speaks to the value of leadership when dealing with a group of strong personalities. As I was walking along a park I saw a professional dog walker lead two packs of dogs into a clearing. Each
