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Private Law Firms Fail to Meet Pay Expectations for Legal Workers in New Zealand

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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Bourkes Law: Courtroom Cellphone Drama Sees Community Magistrate Investigated

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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 Expands With Intention To Built A ‘Vastly Different Culture’ to Other Law Firms

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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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Power Lawyer Stacey Shortall Wins Diversity & Inclusion Award

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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How Lawyers Can Use the LinkedIn Algorithm to Their Advantage in 2023

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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The Tingey Files: Meeting With Top Power Lawyer ‘Backfired’ Says Complainant

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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SFO Announces Prison Sentence For Corrupt Former Council Executive

Prison sentences handed down to a corrupt former council executive and his associate today reflect the serious nature of their crime and the widespread harm that can be caused by corruption, says the Serious Fraud Office. Former Westland District Council Group Manager of District Assets Vivek Goel was sentenced to three years and eight months’

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