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Pathways in the Law: Prestige Lawyers

Cross cultural and bilingual legal expertisePrestige Lawyers in the heart of Auckland is an international law firm that’s been operating since 2008. The firm was conceived by director and principal Royal Reed. The legal team deal mainly with Chinese-speaking communities, but not all of their lawyers are native Chinese. They’re an ethnically diverse…

Sentencing lessons from the Baby Moko case

Shailer and Haerewa v R [2017] NZCA 38On 10 August 2015, two months after three-year-old Moko Rangitoheriri had been placed into the temporary care of Tania Shailer and David Haerewa, baby Moko was pronounced dead in a resuscitation room at Taupo Hospital’s Emergency Department. The primary cause of Moko’s death was…

Appeal for help in fighting modern slavery

On a trip to South-east Asia in October last year, Dunedin lawyer Peter Sara met an agency dealing with human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Mr Sara is the chair of the New Zealand wing of International Needs, an international Christian charity. The object of the trip was to seek out opportunities…

Unconscious bias trial at Victoria University Law School

The New Zealand Law Society and Victoria University’s Law School are collaborating to equip future members of the legal profession with unconscious bias training. This work stems from a recommendation made by the Law Society’s Women’s Advisory Panel to embed unconscious bias training at key stages of legal careers.

How to defend your job in the age of automation

It doesn’t matter if you like it, or even if you believe it, automation is accelerating. At some point – not far off according to some – most people will simply have no way of adding economic value. Robots and computers will deliver the same results cheaper, faster, and more…

Supreme Court’s guide for disclosure of trust documents

An issue frequently arising for trustees is how to approach a request by a beneficiary for trust documents. The recent Supreme Court decision Erceg v Erceg [2017] NZSC 28 provides helpful guidance for trustees when faced with such a request and sets out the factors to consider when balancing the…

Strategies for profitability in law firms

The past two years have been good for most law firms in the United Kingdom and New Zealand with both profitability and cash flow improving. While there are significant issues, especially around staff retention and attraction, and also succession planning, most firms have done well. There are also issues concerning certain…

On career design, with the help of luminaries

I have gathered you all here today to tell you about career design, with the help of my good friends Amy Poehler and Daniel Kahneman. Our careers are cool and wondrous things that we get to guide and design how we like (mostly). Design is about conscious care given to how…

Marketing your law practice online

Lawyers and law firms need to make sure their online brand is visible and on point, are sending the right message to the right people, are blogging enough to keep Google interested, are LinkedIn, and aren’t committing a faux pas on Twitter. It can be a lot to get your…

Joining adult children to their parents’ relationship property proceedings as trust beneficiaries

Relationship property proceedings often affect more than just the parties to the relationship. Although the remedies available under the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (the PRA) in relation to trusts are limited, orders that are made can still affect beneficiaries. In the family trust context these will often be children of…

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