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Law Commission Monitoring Changes To Evidence Act
Friday, 20 June 2008, 10:45 am | LawFuel
It would be premature to reach a conclusion that the current rules on the disclosure of previous convictions needed changing because they had already been changed, says the President of the Law Commission Sir Geoffrey Palmer. More >>
Lawyers Can Sell Real Estate On Commission
Friday, 20 June 2008, 10:44 am | LawFuel
Strong lobbying for the removal of the ban on lawyers charging commission on real estate sales has been unsuccessful, said former NZLS president, Ian Haynes, at a recent seminar on the new Rules of Conduct and Client Care for Lawyers. More >>
Is This The Future Law Firm?
Thursday, 19 June 2008, 12:16 am | LawFuel
www.LawFuel.co.nz – The NZ Legal Jobs & Newswire - Can you imagine a law firm with no partners, no billing targets, no traditional steps towards partnership? Trust a law firm that acts for Google and Amazon to break the rules. More >>
Class Action Law Firm Admits Four-Decade Kickbacks
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 12:33 am | LawFuel
As part of an agreement with federal prosecutors, the New York-based law firm now known as Milberg LLP has admitted that senior members of the firm paid secret kickbacks to plaintiffs in more than 165 lawsuits filed from the 1970s through 2005 – lawsuits ... More >>
Challenges Ahead For Kiwi Law Firms
Monday, 16 June 2008, 11:49 am | LawFuel
More international links and law firm alliances will occur in future, along with more international outsourcing of legal work, according to boundary-pushing Auckland lawyer and law boutique pioneer Mark Lowndes More >>
Book May Fulfil Purpose Re Exemplary Damages
Monday, 16 June 2008, 12:15 am | LawFuel
Friday’s Supreme Court decision allowing the survivor of the Mt Wellington RSA attack to sue the Corrections Department should come as no surprise for the Government’s top legal adviser, the Solicitor-General. More >>
Floating Law Firms
Friday, 13 June 2008, 4:35 pm | LawFuel
The Law Jobs and News Wire The changing face of the law profession, starting with the flotation of Australia’s Slater and Walker law firm, is likely to continue with a major UK financier targeting the legal profession ahead of deregulation. More >>
New Regime For Trans-Tasman Deal Welcomed
Friday, 13 June 2008, 2:04 pm | LawFuel
The New Zealand Securities Commission and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today welcomed the announcement of the Mutual Recognition of Securities Offerings (MRSO) by the Minister of Commerce in New Zealand, Hon Lianne Dalziel and ... More >>
One Law Society Proposal Threatened By Auckland
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 9:50 am | LawFuel
Plans for the Law Society’s ‘One Society’ model are looking shaky as the newly elected Auckland District Law Society Council examines the repercussions for its membership of the radical new Act that is designed to reshape the modern legal profession. More >>
HP and Acer Settle Patent Litigation
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 9:33 am | LawFuel
HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that it has settled all ongoing patent litigation with Acer. The confidential settlement agreement resolves all claims asserted in three federal court lawsuits and two United States International Trade Commission investigations ... More >>
Former Broadcom CEO &CFO Indicted
Friday, 6 June 2008, 9:41 am | LawFuel
Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III, a co-founder and former chief executive officer of Broadcom, and William Ruehle, the former chief financial officer of the Irvine-based technology company, have been named in an indictment unsealed today that charges them with engaging ... More >>
Top Lawyer Leaves For Middle East Role
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 4:32 pm | LawFuel
The legal exodus to Dubai has attracted one of New Zealand’s leading commercial lawyers, Bell Gully partner Andrew Abernethy. He is to join British-based international law firm Norton Rose next month. More >>
NZ Law Offers Small Firms The Ability To Foot It
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 4:56 pm | LawFuel
The addition of two more firms into the NZ Law national network has further strengthened the group’s ability to competitively match the large law firms in technology, information-sharing and expertise. More >>
56 Firms Nationwide For NZ Law Limited
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 2:55 pm | LawFuel
NZ LAW’s membership has further increased with two firms joining the group, it was announced today. The admission of Dunedin’s Downie Stewart and Lower Hutt lawyers, Gillespie Young Watson, bring the group’s membership to 56 firms More >>
Class Action King Gets Prison For Kickback Scheme
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 11:12 am | LawFuel
Melvyn I. Weiss, a founding partner of the New York law firm now known as Milberg LLP, was sentenced this morning to 30 months in federal prison after admitting that he and others concealed secret payment arrangements that the firm had with named ... More >>
Trio Of Lost Cases - SG Praises Crown Prosecutions
Friday, 30 May 2008, 9:57 am | LawFuel
At a time when the the Police have lost three, high profile cases, the Solicitor General Dr David Collins has told Radio New Zealand the New Zealand Crown prosecution system is the best in the world. More >>
$1 Million Plus Costs Against Law Firm
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 9:37 am | LawFuel
In a judgment today from Justice Rhys Harrison, a rare award of indemnity costs in the amount of $1.057,691.25 was made in respect of an action that arose from Clive Bradbury's "deep-seated sense of grievance" over the Bank's ending of a solicitor-client ... More >>
Woman Wins First Round In Discrimination Case
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 10:21 am | LawFuel
A challenge against an ex legal chief's multi-million pound discrimination claim has failed. More >>
The Lord of the Rings Lawsuit Continues
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 12:55 am | LawFuel
The son of JRR Tolkien will try next week to halt Hollywood plans to follow the critical and commercial triumph of the Lord of the Rings trilogy by filming The Hobbit and a sequel, The Times reports. More >>
Calling John Burrett - Abduction Advice Needed
Friday, 23 May 2008, 11:09 am | LawFuel
I'm desperately trying to contact former Upper Hutt lawyer and convicted kidnap conspirator John Burrett to implement a plan to seize law firm consultant Ron Pol and conceal him in a cellar until he releases the names of two, top performing corporate law ... More >>
