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Big Bucks on Chapman’s Big Deal

NBR Briefcase – John Bowie – What about leaving the year with a Big Deal Bang? One of the year’s biggest deals is going down right now, lead by Chapman Tripp and valued at $2.2 billion. The new listing of the $2.2 billion Heartland merger (MARAC, Pyne Gould, CBS Canterbury and Southern Cross Building Society) [...]

Dec 20 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Law Heroes,The Firm | Read More »

Telling the SFO To Just FO!

There are at least three disturbing things about this week’s action by the SFO against the NBR in respect of the South Canterbury Finance investigation, reports the NBR Briefcase column. First, it came the very month in which New Zealand was ranked in the top 10 in the world for media freedom. It highlights an [...]

Oct 20 2010 | Posted in Law Heroes,Screaming Scandals | 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 »

Slating Slater, Or Not

First there’s Steven Price on the David Harvey Judgement: “70 pages! It took Judge David Harvey that long to establish that Whale Oil (a) had a case to answer for breaching a range of name suppression orders and (b) was guilty. . . . But I have to say, I’m not sure Mr Oil’s legal [...]

Sep 16 2010 | Posted in Law Heroes,Legal Exotica | Read More »

Christchurch Lawyers Shaken, And Stirred

The Christchurch earthquake shook up everyone, including the lawyers, but things are under control as they return to their offices . . slowly. Some, like Cavell Leitch, were well prepared while others may be out of their offices for quite some time, as LawFuel reported here.

Sep 12 2010 | Posted in Law Heroes,The Firm | Read More »

Lawyering on in Christchurch

John Bowie – God and the government must be really mad with Canterbury. First the finance company, now the earthquake. But, it seems, the government has now come round even if God may still be making up His mind. And, for politicians anyway, it has to said that this is their Giuliani moment as Key [...]

Sep 8 2010 | Posted in Law Heroes,Law Life,The Firm | Read More »

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 from the lips of lawyers, but the recipients of the legal aid largesse (our words, certainly not theirs) are covered in this story and show, [...]

Sep 2 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Law Heroes,Lording It | Read More »

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 a woman escort after he was given electronic bail to live at a holiday park north of Auckland. Change lawyers, was the advice, and tell [...]

Sep 1 2010 | Posted in Law Heroes | Read More »

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 and that they should start dusting off their nuclear scientist ploy of holding family members’ hostage. And they can fire their PR team while they’re [...]

Jul 28 2010 | Posted in Law Heroes,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

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 boys of the Viaduct and their flashy wives and girlfriends as a man can get without a time machine or, in Mr Hubbard’s case, a [...]

Jun 24 2010 | Posted in Law Heroes,Screaming Scandals | Read More »