LegalTech startup Law Vu has recruited a senior LinkedIn executive in a recruitment coup that will further help the startup’s rise. Greg Stephenson was North America’s marketing chief for Microsoft-owned LinkedIn who came to New Zealand because his Kiwi wife was keen to return. LawVu has been successfully fund-raising as LawFuel has reported and has […]
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Ron Pol – When the solutions to Panama, Paradise, and Pandora papers prevent better anti-crime outcomes. The latest round of coordinated outrage from a carefully manicured document leak – dubbed the Pandora Papers – provoked the usual storm of readymade “solutions” this week to “fix” the anti-money laundering system. But when perceptions (no
John Bowie* The funding for the 16 Crown Solicitors’ offices, at $41 million, has piqued the interest of Guyon Espiner in an article in RNZ pointing to Auckland Crown Solicitor and Power List member Brian Dickey luxuriating’ in a “light-filled space on the top floor of a central city Auckland high rise”. Dickey, at Meredith
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Scott Russell doesn’t necessarily come across as a big ticket litigator, but he has a potentially billion dollar claim to handle now and has the cred to pull it off, particularly with his well funded backing from the litigation funders on both sides of the Tasman. A former Bell Gully lawyer, Russell moved to London
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It’s a bit like coals-to-Newcastle, or having the Taliban come to teach us how to educate more women. For District Court Judge Russell Collins, providing a discount to a Mongrel Mob member who was to attend the taxpayer-funded meth-treatment programme run by operated in part by the so-called ‘notorious’ Sonny Smith, a high profile Mob
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Five talented Russell McVeagh partners have been recognised as leading lawyers across Asia in their areas of specialty at the Women in Business Law Awards 2021 Asia. Top Banking and Finance partner Deemple Budhia and market-leading Technology and Digital partner Liz Blythe were each named ‘Lawyer of the Year’ for a second consecutive year in their areas of ‘Structured Finance and Securitisation’
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The Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has made a finding that Auckland lawyer Quentin Duff was at the relevant time not a fit and proper person or was otherwise unsuited to engage in practice as a lawyer due to his attempts to evade paying tax. Mr Duff faced one charge of misconduct in relation to
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>> Latest law jobs on the LawFuel Network – In-House, Law Firms, NGOs – Daily Updates Lawyer Hannah Rawnsley actions in fleeing to Wanaka with partner William Willis has embarrassed at least two District Court judges, being her partner’s mother and the co-owner of the Wanaka house, District Court Judge Josephine Bouchier. fled alert level
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Samantha Barrass, a kiwi economist with international experience as a regulator has been named as the FMA’s new Chief Executive, having served at the forefront of radical changes made to the regulation and ownership of law firms in the UK. Ms Barrass replaces Rob Everett as Chief Executive of the FMA, taking over in January
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MinterEllisonRuddWatts–MinterEllisonRuddWatts Partner Stacey Shortall has joined Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington’s distinguished alumni, after being named as a Distinguished Alumni Award winner – one of only six selected in the biennial award process. Award recipients are chosen based on making positive impacts in their communities and beyond, and their achievements are outstanding examples of
