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The Innovators: Titus Rahiri, Director at KorumLegal

Titus Rahiri LawFest organiser Andrew King continues a series of interviews with key legal professionals with their innovation and technology stories. What does legal innovation mean to you? Legal innovation has become a popular phrase in today’s legal ecosystem. Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, defined it…

Manage your energy

We’re often told to manage our time effectively to get things done – make to-do lists and block out time in the day for specific tasks. As demands on our time and energy continually increase, and we find ourselves stretched both in the workplace and in other areas of our lives,…

Please make terrible art

It is easy to think, as we advance in life, that we know far more and are definitely better than our younger selves. This is mostly true, but it is not totally true, and I have brought with me today my younger self to make my point. She will also…

Aotearoa's future courts: should online courts be our future?

Modern technology has pushed legal jurisdictions to consider other ways of administering justice. Increasingly, there is a trend to deliver justice in an online space, rather than in a physical courtroom. Tentative steps towards online justice have already been taken in New Zealand (eg, audio-visual links) but internationally, a more…

Survival of the healthiest

It’s a tough world out there now in the legal marketplace. Increasing fee and economic pressures, strong competition to hire the most capable young lawyers, baby boomers retiring without adequate succession plans in place, changing technology, artificial intelligence, culture change, and disruptive legal service provision offerings put enormous pressure on…

Lawyers missing opportunity to be thought leaders

Law is one profession where there are major opportunities for lawyers to become recognised thought leaders in their areas of expertise. This allows them to stand above their competition when it comes to reputations and visibility. But very few take advantage of this, leaving the door open to the few who…

Update on restraint of trade clauses in franchising

Restraint of trade clauses are a common commercial tool by which franchisors protect their brand, goodwill and system, following the termination of the franchise agreement. If franchises did not have the control of a restraint of trade clause, ex-franchisees could readily take and use all know-how and goodwill gleaned from…

Competition law issues beneath the surface with mergers

Two recent court decisions show that mergers raise competition law risks well beyond the obvious risks arising from the merger itself being considered to substantially lessen competition. Section 47 of the Commerce Act 1986 prohibits a merger that substantially lessens competition in a market. However, additional serious competition law issues can…

Some criminal justice outcomes in 2018

Just over three-quarters of the cases in District and High Courts where adult prosecutions had an outcome resulted in conviction during 2018. Around the country there were some noticeable variations in conviction rate when analysed by ethnicity, gender, age, sentencing court and the type of offence. Statistics New Zealand has released…

The benefits of working flexibly for mental health and wellbeing

When Sarah Taylor asked whether I would be interested in writing an article as part of a series aimed at destigmatising mental health in the legal profession, I jumped at the opportunity. At some point in our lives we will all have a friend, family member, colleague or our own…

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