Christine Thompson, who today won a share of $8 million received by her ex-husband, wanted to "set the law straight for other women", says her lawyer.

A High Court stoush between a lawyer suing her former partners for establishing a new firm without her has settled.

An Auckland franchising lawyer has accused certain colleagues in the profession of laziness after his work was plagiarised a third time.

A South African lawyer who suppressed his "out of control" history has been deemed fit and proper to be a lawyer in NZ.

An architect of the Trinity forestry tax scheme has failed to convince the High Court to halt bankruptcy action against him.

They say what goes around comes around, and so it is for lawyer Boon Gunn Hong whose excessive suspension has been quashed on appeal.

There are many ways of telling whether someone is telling the truth. Unfortunately they do not include the way they look and sound, writes Robert Fisher.

A Tauranga law firm will have to pay $150,000 more to retirees who lost money in Blue Chip, a Court of Appeal ruling has found.

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom will face tougher new bail conditions and make a daily visit to the police for at least the next week.

Kim Dotcom is banned from using helicopters, travelling by boat or going 80 kilometres from his home, ahead of a bail hearing next Monday.

Jock Anderson is questioning why the identity of the NZ judge with the highest rate of jailing drink drivers will not be revealed.

A high profile Queen's Counsel and one of the country's biggest law firms are stepping down from Kim Dotcom's legal team.

More than three times as many lawyers were struck off this year than in 2009 and the trend is continuing.

A lawyer who misspelled the name of the trial judge incurs the wrath Justice Wylie and complaints against judges on the decline in this week's Caseload.

Struck-off Auckland ex-lawyer Barry Hart is back in the saddle, this time as a "lay advocate" representing banned jockey David Walker.

It has taken a while, but a fancy feed to pay tribute to Justice Simon Moore QC is rescheduled for next March - a year after the judge was sworn in.

Jock Anderson remembers a time when violent attacks on police officers were condemned and not brushed off by slick lawyers paid to find ways of shifting the blame.

More defamation damages awarded to Joe Karam, judges clamping down on media reporting and legal aid payments dropping in this week's legal blog.

Jock Anderson delves into one of former judge Lester Chisholm's little known but significant credentials.

Simpson Grierson has achieved a certificate called a Rainbow Tick, which recognises the law firm for being inclusive of gender and sexual diversity.

The Law Society has not criticised Justice Minister Judith Collins over the naming of Sir Robert Chambers Lane in Christchurch, as Jock Anderson writes.

The Crown will not appeal a decision to give a teen who assaulted schoolboy Stephen Dudley before his death last year a discharge without conviction.

Crime barristers are up in arms over an increase in self-represented litigants and a surge in appeals based on the competency of lawyers, writes Jock Anderson.

Many are angered by the fact that the two brothers who who beat and punched Stephen Dudley have walked from court free, anonymous and unpunished, writes Jock Anderson

Failed finance company director Trevor Ludlow has done contract work for a receiver with his own fraud convictions since being released on parole.

There are signs the judiciary may be eager to restrict news media court coverage, writes legal blogger Jock Anderson.

John Banks is to be sentenced tomorrow after being earlier found guilty of electoral fraud in relation to his last mayoral bid. What is likely to happen to him?