According to a report on Newsroom.co.nz, duty lawyers are issuing a threat to cease their services due to a lack of pay increases spanning the past 25 years. Janine Bonifant, a member of the New Zealand Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee, stated that since duty lawyers are considered contractors, they are unable to form a
Are NZ Law Firms Exploiting Staffers with Uncompensated Overtime? Major law firms have a stark difference in attitude towards working conditions for legal staff, according to an informal review of the firms by NZ Herald writer Sasha Borissenko. Check LawFuel’s Law Site – The article follows the report released by the Aotearoa Legal Workers’ Union
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Power List Headliner Michael Heron KC Fronts Bourkes Law Inquiry Top ranking Power List member Michael Heron KC is to head another inquiry, this time into a community magistrate who threatened to have criminal lawyer Sami Taghavi placed in a cell for allegedly using a cellphone in Court. According to her online profile, Taghavi, from
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Law Firm and Culture Difference New Zealand law firm K3 Legal has taken the next step in its growth and appointed two new directors to its team, and has also added a new senior associate to its civil litigation group. >> In-House Counsel? Family Law? Government? We have New Zealand’s Best Law Jobs Right Here
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New Zealand Lawyer of the Year Wins Again LawFuel Power Lawyer and former New Zealand Lawyer of the Year Stacey Shortall has won the Chambers Asia Pacific Award for Partner Stacey Shortall was named as the winner of Chambers Asia Pacific Award for Outstanding Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion category in Singapore. >> Best Law Jobs Are Here
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A debate should be held regarding the way in which white collar crime is dealt with in New Zealand law compared to other types of crime, where there is greater leniency and immunity
Sir David Williams KC is New Zealand’s leading international arbitrator and a former High Court Judge who is now retiring.
Lucy King* We’ve produced a bit of content to persuade you to use LinkedIn for personal branding, and for your professional services firm. So, by now, we hope you’d have your profile up-to-date, and that you have started to post regularly. If this sounds like you, the next questions you might be asking are… Why aren’t my
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Appointment of leading KC Paul Radich sees the barrister leave the LawFuel Power List just a year after making the list.
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Barrister Murray Tingey’s complainant had made the complaint about the former Bell Gully partner and senior commercial litigator many years later out of a “sense of duty” towards women in the legal profession, according to the counsel representing the Law Society Standards Committee. A meeting with Power Lawyer and Bell Gully Chairman Roger Partridge had
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