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NZ First To Launch Global Entrepreneurship Week

Monday, 16 November 2009, 4:09 pm | LawFuel

Global Entrepreneurship Week, the international week of competition and events encouraging and celebrating entrepreneurial activity, was started in Wellington, New Zealand as the first country to see the light of the new day. More >>

Global Entrepreneur Week Launches First In NZ

Friday, 13 November 2009, 4:44 pm | Law Fuel

The launch of the international Global Entrepreneur Week starts first in the world in Wellington next Monday with an ‘innovation breakfast’ at the Wellington mayoral chambers lead by GEW patron and TradeMe founder Sam Morgan and Wellington mayor Kerry ... More >>

Lawyers Agree with Finlayson on Legal Training

Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 11:20 am | LawFuel

LawFuel.co.nz - The NZ Legal Jobs & News site reports a poll of lawyers on the legal jobs site shows that most agree with Attorney General Chris Finlayson that court lawyers need more training (42 per cent) compared to 37 per cent who say the Attorney ... More >>

Bundling services encouraged for property lawyers

Thursday, 15 October 2009, 4:15 pm | LawFuel

The reduction in fee income from property-based work has cut into the revenues of property lawyers, particularly conveyancers. An inflation-adjusted fee for an average house purchase in 1983 would today be around $3500 plus GST, hugely more than the ... More >>

An Upturn in Legal Jobs Emerges . . At Last

Thursday, 15 October 2009, 1:13 pm | LawFuel

Many law firms are now seeing an upturn in work, creating new legal job opportunities for lawyers, according to Wellington legal recruiter Damian Hanna in an interview with legal online jobs board and legal news site LawFuel.co.nz. More >>

Changes Proposed to Financial Requirements Regime

Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 12:11 pm | LawFuel

Chapman Tripp - “The changes to the new financial regulation regime announced this week by Commerce Minister Simon Power address some of our concerns – but not all of them,” Chapman Tripp Partner Tim Williams said today. More >>

John Key's Legal Top 10

Friday, 2 October 2009, 1:35 pm | LawFuel

LawFuel / NBR - Briefcase John Key's Legal Top 10 By John Bowie - John Key only needs his own fairground barker, like the funnier-than-Letterman Johnny Carson, the late, late night show host, who had Ed McMahon of “Heere’s Johnny!” fame. This is ... More >>

Vince Siemer's blog records the judge's history

Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 10:47 am | LawFuel

Retired District Court Judge Michael Lance QC’s background has been detailed in Vince Siemer’s ‘KiwisFirst’ blog after the Deputy Solicitor General refused an Official Information Act request for documents relating to the Judge’s involvement ... More >>

New Public Law Firm Enters New Zealand Market

Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 6:07 pm | LawFuel

A new public law firm has opened in Wellington, with former Chapman Tripp partner Stephen Franks starting his new firm, Franks & Ogilvie, with former Telecom counsel Rob Ogilvie. Franks has been a partner with Chapman Tripp since 1981, although he ... More >>

Lawyers Split Over Bain Compensation Issue

Monday, 22 June 2009, 3:05 pm | LawFuel

Lawyers appear to be almost evenly split over whether David Bain should receive compensation, according to an online poll conducted by legal news and legal jobs site LawFuel.co.nz. The poll, which simply asked whether David Bain should receive compensation following ... More >>

Swine Flu And The Lawyers

Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 11:06 am | LawFuel

The Government has wide powers under the Health Act, while one firm stockpiles Tamiflu The swine flu emergency has created a raft of employment and other issues for lawyers to deal with, but what are law firms themselves doing to face the first pandemic ... More >>

Compensation is by no means a given for David Bain

Monday, 8 June 2009, 2:26 pm | LawFuel

David Bain's lead lawyer, Michael Reed QC has not surprisingly indicated that a submission to Cabinet for compensation for David Bain will be virtually as inevitable as night following day, however the issue is considerably more vexed than it might appear ... More >>

Legal Fees on the Rise

Thursday, 4 June 2009, 12:43 pm | LawFuel

It may be surprising in a recession, but legal fees may be on the rise according to recently released figures. More >>

Gloomy Legal Jobs News Continues

Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 11:43 am | LawFuel

Gloomy news continues to hit the legal jobs market with more layoffs and a continuing downturn in the international market. DLA Phillips Fox, who laid off 12 lawyers across both their Australian and New Zealand offices late lat year, have laid off a further ... More >>

C J Thompson Appointed Principal Environment Judge

Monday, 11 May 2009, 3:51 pm | LawFuel

Former Blenheim lawyer Craig Thompson has been appointed Principal Environment Court Judge. He was appointed an Alternate Environment Judge in 2001 and has been a full-time Environment Judge since August 2003. More >>

Lawyers Stressed? Not According To This Survey

Monday, 4 May 2009, 3:17 pm | LawFuel

While lawyers may complain about stress and use it to justify high income levels, the job ranks way down in the stress ratings according to a survey from a US employment firm. Surgeons, airline pilots and firemen endure more stress than lawyers, according ... More >>

Outsourcing Legal Work Could Reach Our Shores

Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 12:39 pm | LawFuel

One of the world's largest firms is eyeing this part of the world to outsource work The recession has created further advances in moves by large law firms to outsource their work, with not just India in their sights, but also South Africa and Australia, ... More >>