Despite a 30-year career in South Korea’s public service, Yoon Jong-in had never imagined himself as the country’s top privacy officer, nor had he expected to be chosen to build a government agency from scratch and provide the groundwork for the country’s data-privacy rules.

CaseBase provides legal summary and references on this Court of Appeal decision that addresses the hot topic of reducing the legal voting age, and if age discrimination was a factor in High Court rulings.

NZ Lawyer sat down with LexisNexis customer discovery product manager Kat Strachan to talk about what it means to have the consumers at the core of legaltech product development.

CaseBase provides legal summary and references on this landmark Court of Appeal decision that considers whether deductions from wages for lost time not worked at the employer's direction was unlawful.

LexisNexis UK launched Lexis Create to the UK market in April 2021. Following some early success there we decided to adapt the product for the Australian and New Zealand legal markets. We’ve been working on local developments since May 2021.

Across the world, police officers, judges, and parole boards are turning to sophisticated algorithmic risk assessments to guide increasingly important decisions. Unknown to many, New Zealand already uses a risk assessment algorithm, the ROC*ROI measure, to assist with sentencing and parole decisions (Colin Gavaghan and others Government Use of Artificial Intelligence in New Zealand (New Zealand Law Foundation, 2019)). This article will assess the use of the ROC*ROI measure from both a normative and practical perspective. This is a difficult task as the arguments for and against risk assessment tools in the criminal justice system are plentiful and, ironically, often cover the same issues: biases, accuracy, consistency, and transparency.

This is the big question that keeps me up at night, since answering this informs the products and services that LexisNexis should develop. We attempted to tackle an answer to this question several years ago, and initially identified three mega trends that have / will impact the Legal Services industry: Since then, we’ve had a pandemic, which has fundamentally changed where and how knowledge workers operate.

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.