Deborah Hill Cone: Law firm culture is still a 'Brotopia'
COMMENT: Will anything really change at law firms like Russell McVeagh?
COMMENT: Will anything really change at law firms like Russell McVeagh?
Two cases have had a three-year delay in having decisions delivered.
Exclusive: Kiwi Bruce Robinson was charged following a roof collapse in Poland in 2006.
Anthony Banbrook has been struck off as a lawyer for doing legal work while suspended.
A new legal service will allow disputes to be resolved online without the need of court.
Mai Chen has launched an "online marketplace" for the legal profession.
A lawyer was sentenced for making false statements to help gain a $41 million bank loan.
Parole has been denied to a lawyer who "sometimes treats staff like receptionists".
Career workshops for female lawyers highlight the challenges women face in their careers.
Two Auckland lawyers have developed software to ensure companies' bookkeeping practices are above board.
Raising two kids and battling cancer - Juliet Mawley had to rely on Legal Aid in a recent hearing. But she feels shortchanged because of tightening budgets for legal aid across the country. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Police research concludes a loophole is being increasingly used to launder $1.6 billion in dirty money annually.
The bid to overturn a ruling that he pay US$25 million to former business partner Michael Kidd has failed.
A robot that has successfully challenged more than 160,000 parking tickets, is now helping those who have lost their homes.
COMMENT: The legal profession should be possible to craft rules to bar certain kinds of nastiness.
COMMENT: The biggest problem facing the insolvency industry isn't unaccredited and unregulated professionals, it is passive liquidators.
On one of the documents he claimed witnessing a husband had forged his wife's signature.
COMMENT: Van Heeren claims he cannot pay the US$25m as most of his assets have been transferred to tax haven-based entities.
Is extending anti-money laundering laws to include lawyers the solution to dealing with foreign trusts?
The case between Alex van Heeren and Michael Kidd has reached a new round of appeals.
The suit is perhaps the broadest challenge yet to the federal system.
A lawyer has been censured and fined $1500 for sub-standard record keeping and acting where there was a conflict of interest.
A former partner in an Auckland law firm since fallen on "hard times" has won for being unlawfully arrested and "charged over nothing".
The Supreme Court won't let Heartland New Zealand appeal a ruling that excused Vero Insurance New Zealand from covering losses.
A wide-ranging and five year review, released today, examines New Zealand's burial and cremation law and recommends the current Act be repealed
Wonderful tales told by an uncle who practised law in Surfers Paradise led Tim Rainey to the verdict that law was the profession for him.
"Why doesn't she leave?" That is the wrong question to ask. It places responsibility for the situation on the victim, rather than the perpetrator, writes Catriona MacLennan.
Businessman Michael Thompson argues he should be able to keep more than half of an $8 million payment the Supreme Court says is relationship property.
Three overseas investors' claim against a law firm associated with an ill-fated Auckland housing development can now be revived.