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Large law firms have not been good at creating an environment in whic...
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Making Partner - How Things Are Changing Stateside

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Advice for Associates

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Many lawyers do not like the title of my latest book, "The End of Lawyers?" And yet I am at pains to...
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Everyone seems to agree that this is the craziest, most stressful recruiting season the US has seen ...
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The Declining Fortunes Of Once Fortunate Law Firms

What has the world come to when Cravath, Swaine & Moore has a terrible year? The firm that has serve...
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Playing a key role in the high profile field of foreign investment

The Canadian bid to buy Auckland International Airport, the Russian acquisition of New Zealand Dairi...
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The New Legal Landscape Following Lehman's Failure

The US's top law firms are facing an uncertain new landscape following the demise of two of Wall Str...
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Justice Rhys Harrison's Westpac Decision

Justice Rhys Harrison could excuse himself a moment of wry amusement that it was he - rather than an...
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US Supreme Court Justice Scalia's

This past June, all of the Supreme Court justices conducted fairly lengthy interviews with reporters...
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The Hard-Assed Chief Justice's Judgment

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Teflon Silvio's Luck Runs Out

For most of his political career Silvio Berlusconi has faced allegations and charges of tax fraud, c...
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Happy Couple? - They're The  Number 1 Most Expensive Celebrity Divorce

Celebrity divorces are always great fodder for the tabloid media – and even us, from time to time....
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Mills v. McCartney – The Full Text

Text of full judgment: Heather Mills v Sir Paul McCartney
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One of the fastest-rising young IP lawyers is also Silicon Valley's most colorful

Neel Chatterjee represents Internet companies like PhotoBucket, eBay and the hotter-than-hot Faceboo...
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The Paul Newman Will

A review of the will and codicil that Paul Newman left when he died in September reveals an 18-page ...
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The Scrabbulous Lawsuit

After many months of doing virtually nothing, Hasbro, maker of the board game Scrabble, finally move...
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How IT Is Transforming Legal Services

By David Curle, Legal Technology. Access to information is a dangerous thing -- to the people who h...
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Kiwi Lawyers and Their Pro Bono Work

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What The Big Firms Need For 2010 - Some Love

Last year was traumatic for many law firms. Few avoided staff cutbacks or shorter time working. In m...
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Law Firm v. Client

Last month, Susan Blount, the general counsel of Prudential Financial, sent a letter to the 60 law f...
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Small Kiwi Firms Have Room For Improvement

Small firms have plenty of room for improved profitability if the results of Markhams’ Legal Pract...
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Former Wall Street Lawyer To Give Away His Billions

From The New York Times. When David M. Rubenstein turned 54, he read that white Jewish males were l...
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The Chris Finlayson Speech

Speech at New Zealand Bar Association Conference
Saturday, 12 September 2009

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The Greg King Profile

Greg King, the son of a prison guard, is one of the country's best defence lawyers, with clients inc...
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US Environmental Lawyer Speaks Out

Steven Donziger knew pursuing a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Chevron-Texaco wouldn't be easy....
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Civil Litigation in New Zealand

By Saskia Righarts and Shana Fonnesbeck, University of Otago Legal Issues Centre. From the New Zeala...
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Twitter - The Legal Risks


By Andrew Murray - The push publication system used by the micro-blogging site means anything yo...
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Big Changes at Harvard Law School

While Yale Law School recently lost several big-name professors, its rival in Cambridge has been exp...
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Keeping Lady Lawyers - The Canadian Way

The Canadian and American bars have more than language in common. They share some of the same proble...
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Inside India's Legal Outsourcing Machine

Nestled amid the bustle of north Mumbai, the headquarters of Pangea3, one of India’s biggest legal...
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The Firm at the Centre of the Tiger Coverup

In the summer of 2007, a representative for Tiger Woods called an editor at Golf Digest with some aw...
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Judging The Judges - The Bill WIlson Affair

Judicial Conduct Commissioner David Gasgoigne has requested that an eminent retired jurist from Aust...
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Six Market Trends You Can't Afford To Ignore

2008 heralded in a stark reality for law firms, the Complete Lawyer reports. Growth in outside couns...
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The Lawyer Who Could Be King

Adebayo Ogunmeno is a lawyer in Kansas City, Kan., but he is considering a second career: being a k...
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A Q & A With Stephen Franks

Why are you leaving Chapman Tripp?

Because I’ve had to turn away too much interesting and i...
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In Praise of Law Firm Layoffs

Dan Slater, the former writer of The Wall Street Journal Law Blog, argues that layoffs at law firms ...
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The Sizzling Life Of A Beijing Associate

Welcome to ZZ’s world: a whirl of good weed, wild parties and wilder girls. In Beijing.

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Tax Time
Hogan's Heroes - Paul Hogan's Legal Posse

Actor Paul Hogan and his financial adviser Tony Stewart hired more than 20 top lawyers and accountan...
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When banking a cheque does NOT mean full and final acceptance

A recent Rotorua High Court decision gives an insight into how to bank a cheque offered as part but ...
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The US legal world has been transformed in the last year, and so has the American Lawyer seventh ann...
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Why Did One Of America's Biggest Law Firms Die?

The demise of the 118-year-old Heller Ehrman has left questions about what went wrong. Heller died b...
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An Unhappy Departure - Sydney Law Firm Split

The former managing partner of Gadens in Sydney, Michael Bradley, has left the firm, taking part of ...
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