Anything that makes lawyers scream - with pain, pleasure - just anything.
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And so the QCs return. On the one hand the whole deal with QCs is redolent with privilege and elitism, licensed to bill and exemplifying the snooty traits that so turns off the fee-paying public. There’s considerable status anxiety possessed by some senior barristers over removal of the title. Who the hell wants to be an SC? What does it stand for again? And anyway, being at the top of your game (let’s stick with theory here) is worthy of suitably prestigious recognition with the cache that comes from being a “Queen’s Counsel,” is it not?
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London’s colourful mayor Boris Johnson has put London legal noses out of joint by ignoring their representation on London’s International Business Advisory Council, a body set up to improve London’s role as a place to live and work. Legal work is a major economic contributor to London’s economy, but lawyers themselves are miffed at missing the chance to use their skills and experience to help shape the city’s economic future. See the report in LegalWeek.

However, others have seen the snub - if that is what it is - as a wakeup call for a profession that has an over-inflated sense of self importance, providing over-engineered advice at extortionate cost. Others, however, have indicated that no-one can match the supreme commercial nous of British Airways, an IBA representative.


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Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003 - The blog of David Farrar
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Media law and ethics in New Zealand - From Steven Price, a media law barrister and adjunct media law lecturer in Wellington, author of 'Media Minefield' and well known radio commentator on media matters.
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Aotearoa, international blog - what does that mean, anyway?
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A top-rating legal tabloid - everything you need to know - or didn't even know you needed to know - about the law. (US law, anyway).
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Irreverent legal news from the City - every Friday, curiously enough.
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KIWISFIRST reports NEWS that furthers the open and equitable administration of justice in New Zealand. Its Mission is to advance, through accurate journalism, the three pillars of a responsible judicial system; transparency, lawful compliance and accountability. "legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus"
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I'm a politically and socially aware Wellingtonian, a media professional of 20 years’ experience with catholic interests in such things and issues as urban transport, climate change, Flight of the Conchords, civil society, the law, how well the news media serves the public and much more besides. I am politically non-partisan, admiring and often liking politicians of most persuasions. Above all I am a skeptic, which is quite a different animal from a cynic. This aim of this blog is to present a personalised, eclectic mix of essays with a literary journalism bent; media criticism; and breaking news on important and not-so-important issues. It is anonymous, but not because I am trying to hide my identity. When I started in journalism, newspaper stories rarely had bylines. They stood or fell on their content, not who their author was. I want this blog to be like that. Poneke is the Maori transliteration of Port Nicholson, which was the original name the British settlers gave to Wellington. The actual Maori name for the area that today is New Zealand’s capital is Te Whanganui-a-Tara, or the Great Harbour of Tara, a reference to a chief named Tara, said to have visited the area 800 years ago.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about law in the US, from the people who publish the Wall Street Journal.
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The latest, law-related celebrity gossip - all true, of course. And often verified with court-certified documents and illegally-obtained photographs. Don't miss it.
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Bell Gully employment lawyer Andrew Scott-Howman writes on workplace law.
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But MPs in those parties have to accept that they are hitch-hikers. They must laugh at the leader’s jokes, and skip in step with him, even if the leader can’t skip, or changes step without warning.
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Down here in New Zealand (and it’s not much different in Australia), it’s hard for law firms to find mid-level lawyers who have removed themselves to the bright lights and big money of London, New York, Dubai, Hong Kong, Tokyo and other centers.
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Local legal news and gossip as featured in the National Business Review.
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