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So Who’s On The Legal Aid Rich List, Then? »

It’s a list that is received with great expressions of doing the ‘public good’ and standing up for the underdog and all those other tiresome phrases that emerge like treacle…

Sep 2 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
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Knuckle Rapping From The Judge »

Auckland JudgeDavid McNaughton has gave some knuckle rapping to lawyers Evgeny Orlov and Shaurya Malaviyaover the mess they’ve made of a case involving a client who alleged drugged and raped…

Sep 1 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
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Have You Seen This Lawyer? »

Mohammad Mostafaei – along with the Iran regime’s sense of humanity – is missing!  If you locate him please tell the Iranian authorities that he is (hopefully) alive and well…

Jul 28 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
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The Man With The Battered Briefcase »

By John Bowie – Alan Hubbard doesn’t fit the image of the modern financier. The Presbyterian woyserism. The old shirts. The VW. He’s as far removed from the bling-laden wide…

Jun 24 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
The Firm

They’re In the Money – Legally Aided Lawyers »

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It’s been the bete noir for the legal profession for the past year or so, but this report shows that…

Sep 2 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

Death of the Hourly Fee Exaggerated »

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The death of the hourly fee may be delayed, it would seem.  The recently published “Legal Department Benchmarking Report” indicates…

Sep 1 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

Bell Gully Go All Techo at Morgo »

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Bell Gully are sending two of their partners to Jenny Morel’s MORGO techo shindig in Wairakei,being David Flacks and Dean…

Sep 1 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

Jailed Lawyer Ordered To Repay $363 Million. Chickenfeed. »

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They don’t pay much in jail, but lawyer Scott Rothstein, the former South Florida lawyer serving 50 years in prison…

Sep 1 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
The Firm

They’re In the Money – Legally Aided Lawyers »

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It’s been the bete noir for the legal profession for the past year or so, but this report shows that the Legal Services Agency has been doling out around 20 per cent more money to legal aid lawyers than the year before.  We’ll have the…

Sep 2 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

Death of the Hourly Fee Exaggerated »

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The death of the hourly fee may be delayed, it would seem.  The recently published “Legal Department Benchmarking Report” indicates that alternative fee arrangements are less common in Australia and New Zealand than many might have thought, although the report indicated the trend towards AFAs…

Sep 1 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

Bell Gully Go All Techo at Morgo »

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Bell Gully are sending two of their partners to Jenny Morel’s MORGO techo shindig in Wairakei,being David Flacks and Dean Oppenhuis who will lecture the inventor-entrepreneurs on “Going Global”.  Think trees-to-Nokia and you’ll get the picture.…

Sep 1 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

Jailed Lawyer Ordered To Repay $363 Million. Chickenfeed. »

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They don’t pay much in jail, but lawyer Scott Rothstein, the former South Florida lawyer serving 50 years in prison for a US$1.2-billion Ponzi scheme, was ordered by a judge to pay his victims US$363-million.  So maybe times have changed?  The Florida court imposed the order…

Sep 1 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

The Great Partner Cull »

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Partner numbers at the large and not-so-large firms are declining overall, designed to preserve partner earnings and raises the obvious question of how smaller firms are fairing.  Auckland-based accountants Markhams, who carry out an annual small market survey, indicate that like their larger brethren many…

Aug 23 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
The Ladies

Here Come The Ladies . . Barristers, That Is »

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The growing representation of women in the legal profession has been one of its defining characteristics over the past quarter century.  Law Society figures show…

Jul 26 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
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Unmasking The Stig

What sort of spoil sport is Mr Justice Morgan, anyway?  The Beeb lost its case in keeping the Top Gear stunt driver’s identity secret.  The Stig was revealed as Ben Collins, 35, Top Gear’s incognito racing…

Sep 1 2010 / Read More »
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King’s Court

TV lawyers in New Zealand have surfaced with varying degrees of success over the years – Mike Bungay being a TV darling at one point – but they’ve generally been confined to a role as talking…

Jul 16 2010 / Read More »
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Oops . . Oh, Sorry, That’s MY Coke!

Ditzy Paris is in trouble all over again as her coke fell out of her handbag when she was only reaching for her lippy.  What does a girl have to do to have some innocent fun…

Aug 29 2010 / Read More »
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Power Off! For Now

Simon Power’s planned speech to outline his ongoing quest to rebuild a broken justice system was delayed by the funeral of the young soldier killed in Afghanistan.  The Minister’s ongoing quest to become the most reformative…

Aug 11 2010 / Read More »
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Taxing-Up in the Cooks

John Bowie – It’s an odd thing, but ‘diving’up here in the Cook Islands (or ‘lagoon-floating’ as I prefer to call it) which is analogous to the law with it’s oily-smooth surface, just as if BP…

Jun 11 2010 / Read More »
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Focus, Focus . . The NZLS Is Focusing

After a whole bunch of trouble dealing with its formerly pesky Auckland branch, the NZLS is now out and about in the provinces and elsewhere seeing what its membership actually wants, as LawFuel reports.  What do…

Jul 28 2010 / Read More »
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An Aussie View on The Wilson Affair

From “Justinian” publisher and SMH columnist Richard Ackland: The solemn edifice of justice depends on the public having some sort of respect for and confidence in judges. That sounds like one of William Blackstone’s platitudinous pronouncements…

Sep 2 2010 / Read More »
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Judge v. Judge

Let battle commence. The application by Justice Bill Wilson for judicial review of the decision by the Judicial Conduct Commissioner Sir David Gascoigne to appoint a panel to consider his removal from office is obviously historic,…

Sep 1 2010 / Read More »

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