Cybersecurity continues to be a national challenge for Australia. One in three Australians are now impacted by Cybersecurity breaches, with a new crime reported every 10 minutes. The traditional scams, ransoms and other threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the difficulty in defending against them is compounded by the emergence of a host of new and diversified attack types.

It is hard to aspire to be something that you cannot see. With such low rates of representation, pursuing a legal profession is not something many young Māori students could picture themselves aspiring to be.

The US Department of Justice has pressed the button on its landmark antitrust lawsuit against the search giant.

The first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine is due to reach New Zealand by April and will be available to border staff and essential health workers in the first instance.

Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice

Justice Joseph Williams, in his seminal paper, “Lex Aotearoa: An Heroic Attempt to Map the Māori Dimension in Modern New Zealand Law”, describes New Zealand law in a third stage of evolution.

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating once-in-a-lifetime challenges and change. For lawyers, creating a new work from home routine and establishing boundaries has been the critical first step in establishing a new normal. In this series, we talk to lawyers from different sectors of the industry about how they’ve adapted during the early weeks of this global pandemic.

Bell Gully corporate partners Amon Nunns and Chris Goddard spent an early part of New Zealand’s Alert Level 4 helping a client undertake a NZ$100 million equity capital raising. Completing the transaction from home could have been a logistical nightmare. But ‘technical difficulties’ proved surprisingly limited. End-to-end, the process was far more seamless than anyone would have expected earlier this year.

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating once-in-a-lifetime challenges and change. For lawyers, creating a new work from home routine and establishing boundaries has been the critical first step in establishing a new normal. In this series, we talk to lawyers from different sectors of the industry about how they’ve adapted during the early weeks of this global pandemic.

Legal Analytics helps law firms understand the idiosyncrasies of legal data to make better decisions and get clearer answers. Greg Dickason, Managing Director – LexisNexis Pacific talks about global adoption of analytics and how law firms in the Pacific could use Analytics to drive efficiencies.

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