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Lawyers Involved in Billion Dollar Deals
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 10:51 am | LawFuel
The Fletchers Building buyout of Australia's Crane Group was one that gathered headlines on both sides of the Tasman, but two other major deals also set the year off to a cracking start for commercial lawyers here, in Australia and - in one case reported ... More >>
Heartland" deal a $2.2 billion whopper to finish the year
Friday, 17 December 2010, 8:27 pm | LawFuel
LawFuel.co.nz – Law News & Jobs wire - Lawyers Chapman Tripp have been working hard sealing the biggest deal of the year – the $2.2 billion “Heartland” merger that will next month create one of New Zealand’s largest finance institutions. More >>
Government Changes Rules For Legal Services
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 9:29 am | LawFuel
If lawyers want to play the law game with government, the rules are about to change More >>
Top Earning Legal Aid Lawyers Audited
Monday, 15 November 2010, 4:57 pm | LawFuel
Top Earning Legal Aid Lawyers Audited Reports indicate top earning legal aid lawyers are under the audit spotlight Top earning legal aid lawyers are being audited by the Legal Services Authority, according to reports from senior lawyers. More >>
New Zealand Law Society welcomes dialogue w ADLS
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 12:32 pm | LawFuel
New Zealand Law Society President Jonathan Temm says ongoing discussions with the Auckland District Law Society Inc have considered how the two organisations might work to combine their Auckland operations. More >>
More Lawyers Face Legal Aid Suspension
Friday, 15 October 2010, 11:00 am | LawFuel
More lawyers face suspension from the legal aid roster, following last week's termination of three lawyers' contracts with the Legal Services Agency. More >>
Women Lawyers Predominate in Most Powerful List
Friday, 8 October 2010, 12:14 pm | LawFuel
Lawyers predominate professionally in the Forbes 'Most Powerful Women' list, with Most Powerful Woman Number 1 being the president's wife and attorney Michelle Obama. More >>
Law profession debates formal court wear
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 12:19 pm | LawFuel
LawFuel reports that the legal profession is in a vigorous debate over the Law Society’s suggestion that the profession adopt the wearing of gowns for trials of indictable offences in the District Courts. The suggestion from Law Society president Jonathan ... More >>
Law Society Charges McKay and Hill
Monday, 27 September 2010, 5:21 pm | LawFuel
The Law Society has issued charges against Napier lawyers Gerald McKay and Richard Hill following the freezing of their firm's trust account in June. More >>
Labour Wavered Over Abolition of Privy Council
Friday, 24 September 2010, 9:44 am | LawFuel
*LawFuel.co.nz* - Former Attorney-General Margaret Wilson has revealed the previous Labour-led Government reconsidered its plans to proceed with abolition of appeals to the Privy Council in the wake of the outcry generated by the proposal. More >>
Missing Lawyer Subject to Law Society Enquiry
Monday, 20 September 2010, 2:11 pm | LawFuel
The Wellington lawyer who went missing on the south coast of Wellington is believed to have been the subject of a Law Society enquiry, according to the NBR 'Briefcase' column. More >>
Christchurch Lawyers Continue Through Quakes
Monday, 13 September 2010, 11:02 am | LawFuel
By John Bowie - NBR “Briefcase Column" & LawFuel.co.nz - For lawyers, the quake and its after shocks caused obvious problems with accommodation, but didn’t slow things up unduly for the larger firms, although some were clearly better prepared ... More >>
Judges Cross Swords
Friday, 3 September 2010, 3:10 pm | LawFuel
The Justice Wilson hearing in the High Court at Wellington today saw former Court of Appeal judge Sir Edmund Thomas vigorously reject accusations from Justice Wilson's lawyer Colin Carruthers QC that he was guilty of any "fantasy" in his views on the ... More >>
Tiger Wood Divorce Statement
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 12:43 pm | LawFuel
McGuireWoods LLP, counsel for Elin Nordegren and Sasser, Cestero and Sasser P.A., counsel for Tiger Woods, make the following announcement: Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods confirmed today that they have divorced. Judgment was entered today in Bay ... More >>
Corporate Law report carries some unwelcome news
Wednesday, 18 August 2010, 12:22 pm | LawFuel
A new survey of corporate law users has produced some bad news for large law firms, including increased pressure on the fees charged to corporates for legal services and the need to keep to quoted fee estimates. More >>
Earnings down, overheads up, deals down
Thursday, 12 August 2010, 12:20 pm | LawFuel
Lawyers are facing tougher times in the recession. Earnings are dropping significantly among smaller and medium-sized firms with firms across the spectrum maintaining earnings by "releasing" partners. More >>
New Zealand A World Leader in Per Capita Lawyers
Thursday, 15 July 2010, 4:46 pm | LawFuel
Lawfuel, the legal jobs and legal news website said New Zealand is third behind the United States, with one lawyer per 265 people and Brazil with one per 326 of its citizens. New Zealand, with 10,800 lawyers comes in at one in 391. More >>
Labour Out To Get Finlayson
Friday, 2 July 2010, 2:18 pm | Law Fuel
The Labour Opposition is 'out to get' Attorney General Chris Finlayson, according to NBR columnist John Bowie in his 'Briefcase' column today.See: ScreamingLawyer More >>
Women Judges More Favoured by Lawyers
Friday, 18 June 2010, 11:14 am | Law Fuel
LawFuel.co.nz - A survey of barristers conducted by website publishers KiwisFirst, published by Vince Siemer, have shown that retiring Court of Appeal Judge David Baragwanath was the highest overall scorer at 9.1, with embattled Supreme Court Justice Bill ... More >>
Senior Judge Reshuffle Sees Upset Glazebrook
Friday, 18 June 2010, 11:09 am | Law Fuel
A reshuffling of the judges on the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal has left some judicial noses out of joint, according to NBR's 'Briefcase' columnist John Bowie. More >>
