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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 »
Lawyer Orlov

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 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…

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

They’re In the Money – Legally Aided Lawyers »

countingmoney

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. »

rothstein

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

Judge Dismissed – So It Can Happen »

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Last month saw the enforced retirement of a Judge from the Grand Court of the Caymans, following a 47 page opinion from the Privy Council. …

Sep 7 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
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Tougher Times For the London Law Job

Times are a-changing for lawyers seeking work in the UK.  A New Zealand Lawyer story on the changes to the new quota system introduced to the UK, limits the number of tier-two visas each law firm…

Sep 6 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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Greedy Lawyers Chewing Big Apple Chefs

The WSJ has reported that some of the Big Apple’s biggest chefs are feeling the heat all the way from the kitchen to the courthouse.  The lawyers are  suing famous restaurants for violating wage laws for…

Sep 6 2010 / Read More »
The Hill SimonPower

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 »
Law Life sleepless

Insomnia Driving You Screaming Mad?

Okay, sleeplessness might be seen as an occupational hazard for lawyers but this article indicated there are a few things lawyers can do to avoid those sleepless nights fretting over unbilled time, uncollected fees, the troublesome…

Sep 4 2010 / Read More »
The Society salesman

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 »
Screaming Aussie richard-ackland

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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They Stone Lawyers, Don’t They?

It’s tough being a lawyer at the best of times – well, kind of – but being a lawyer in Iran is beyond even being a South Auckland boot-banger.  Take women’s rights activist Shiva Ahari, (pictured)…

Sep 7 2010 / Read More »

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