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‘Astonishing and sustained lapse’ from lawyer who wrote and processed elderly dementia patient’s will, watchdog says

‘Astonishing and sustained lapse’ from lawyer who wrote and processed elderly dementia patient’s will, watchdog says

‘Astonishing and sustained lapse’ from lawyer who wrote and processed elderly dementia patient’s will, watchdog says

How a self-described ‘veteran’ trusts and estates lawyer became a convert to AI

Client who claims to have slept with her lawyer tells tribunal she’s ‘ashamed’ and ‘disgusted’ with herself

Barrister facing misconduct charge after allegedly having sex with a client – a close friend of his wife

Holding court: why four 80-something KCs have no plans to hang up their robes and ‘call time’

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‘Astonishing and sustained lapse’ from lawyer who wrote and processed elderly dementia patient’s will, watchdog says

How a self-described ‘veteran’ trusts and estates lawyer became a convert to AI

Client who claims to have slept with her lawyer tells tribunal she’s ‘ashamed’ and ‘disgusted’ with herself

Barrister facing misconduct charge after allegedly having sex with a client – a close friend of his wife

Holding court: why four 80-something KCs have no plans to hang up their robes and ‘call time’

Remembering barrister and solicitor Fiona Hall: sharp, vibrant and ‘wonderfully indiscreet’

A foot in two camps: why some Kiwi lawyers are plying their trade offshore

Good lawyering: what Labour’s health spokesperson doesn’t appear to understand

Practitioner warned his client lacked testamentary capacity, proceeded anyway to write her will despite a diagnosis of dementia

Attorney-General Chris Bishop tells judiciary to leave policy to Parliament

Cancer diagnoses, at-risk drinking, vomiting with anxiety before work: AUT report reveals why one in four lawyers intends leaving the profession

Lawyer with no practising certificate fined for making bedside will for dying man with disputed testamentary capacity

The Chief District Court Judge talks caseloads, professionalism, fairness and what it means to be a Māori lawyer

Shamed lawyer is ‘a cautionary tale’ about practitioners and mental health, legal watchdog says

In praise of registrars: the quiet, overlooked and resilient heart of our courts

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