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From Chapman Tripp, With Love

NBR Briefcase – John Bowie – Chapman Tripp has provided a rich training and recruitment ground for the growing Wellington boutique, Greenwood Roche Chisnall, founded in 2005 by Chapman Tripp partners John Greenwood and Bob Roche, along with former Bell Gully partner David Chisnall. It’s now attracted redoubtable Chapman Tripp partner Brigid McArthur, who spent [...]

Dec 20 2010 | Posted in Changing Roles,The Ladies | Read More »

“Have I Got A Deal For You!” – Lawyers Selling Real Estate

NZ Law Society president Paul Temm thinks lawyers need to be more engaged in the sale of real estate. They now have a significant opportunity to enter the real estate market he told a function held at the West Auckland offices of lawyer and realtor Rhonda Evans. Temm said that practitioners had for many years [...]

Dec 6 2010 | Posted in Changing Roles,Law Life,The Firm | Read More »

Banking Fees At Bankside – And Justice Wilson’s New Digs

Briefcase also reports on Justice Wilson’s new digs with Sir Robert Jones and the ex-jurists over at Bankside Chambers. “I thought (Bankside) was named after the sheer volume of fees that must sluice through its ledger, is evidently named after a short street. It’s certainly a lot better than the name of the Wellington chambers [...]

Dec 1 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Changing Roles | Read More »

NZLS L. ADLS – Yes, Love is in the Air

At last, it appears that not only a lasting truce, but a full union between the Auckland District Law Society and the NZ Law Society is likely, according to NBR Briefcase’s John Bowie. It’s not by any means sealed, but they’re talking and they have that feeling that This Could Be It. True love, at [...]

Oct 20 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Changing Roles,The Society | Read More »

Cartoon Lawyers – Don’t Laugh

Following the column’s discussion about branding issues, Mark Kirkland from Kirkland Enright emailed us with an article from branding experts about his firm, Kirkland Enright’s branding. The firm’s mould-breaking website features cartoon characters and removes much of the stuffy, me-tooish aspects of many law firm sites and helps provide the competitive advantage that any good [...]

Oct 14 2010 | Posted in Changing Roles,Law Heroes,The Firm | Read More »

To Gown, or Not To Gown? That is the Question.

We haven’t seen such a QC-laden email exchange since the Thomas/Farmer missives. Court lawyers are working up an email storm over Law Society president Jonathan Temm’s suggestion, doubtless at Attorney General Finlayson’s suggestion or support, to reintroduce gowns for trials of indictable offences in the District Court. “Law News” reported yesterday some of the views [...]

Oct 14 2010 | Posted in Changing Roles,The Society | Read More »

Legal Dressing Down . . and Up

It’s all so deja vu this formal wear for lawyers but it’s reared it ugly seam. But the QCs and others are getting their nightgowns in a knot over something started by NZLS president Jonathan Temm. Or was it Attorney General Chris Finlayson? Or was it QC Robert Lithgow who wrote, in part: These gowns [...]

Oct 6 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Changing Roles,Featured | Read More »

No Privilege In House

The European Court of Justice has said privilege doesn’t extend to inhouse lawyers. This much anticipated decision, reported here in the Guardian,did not take the opportunity to reconsider the application of legal privilege to the antitrust advice given by in-house lawyers.

Sep 15 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Changing Roles | Read More »

Changing Chairs At the JCC

The resignation of Ian Haynes as Judicial Conduct Commissioner this month was probably not surprising, but nevertheless seemed to come as something of a surprise to many in the legal community. His position was one of seat-warming rather than bottom-spanking with his hand having been forced on the issue of Justice Bill Wilson’s alleged conflict [...]

Jun 22 2009 | Posted in Changing Roles | Read More »