Corporate Reporter
The Bell Gully Corporate Reporter provides a round-up of corporate and general commercial matters on a regular basis, to keep you informed on key regulatory developments, legislation and cases of interest.ACLA/CLANZ Legal Department Benchmarking Report 2010
The ACLA/CLANZ Legal Department Benchmarking Report 2010 is now available. The only in-house legal department benchmarking report for New Zealand legal departments (public and private, large and small). The result of the most extensive study of its kind ever undertaken in New Zealand and Australia. Insights from corporate and government sector General Counsel whose organisations together spend more than $2 billion on lawyers annually. (As a comparator, The Business of Law 2009 quotes Statistics NZ records that New Zealand’s entire legal services industry is worth around $2.3 Billion). This report and associated resources will provide you with information on key metrics, legal operational structure, types and percentage of work in sourced/outsourced, legal technologies used, alternative fee structures, and much more.
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Advertising to children
New advertising standards codes have been developed to help retailers and other businesses advertise to children.They stole my brand!
Here's a marketer's guide to the wonderous world of trade mark law.Fine tuning
Some businesses are not aware that you need a licence to play music in a store or restaurant, or on a telephone message.Financial Services Quarterly
Spring 2010 issue of Financial Services Quarterly, a review of current legal issues in the financial sector.The Reform of the Tax Disputes Process: The Story Continues
This is the first of two articles by Bell Gully examining key aspects of Inland Revenue's recently accounced review of the tax disputes procedures.The Defining Points between a Contracted In-house Lawyer and a Private Practitioner
An issue that CLANZ has been asked to consider is where lawyers practise on their own account with more than one organisation as an in-house lawyer. This can occur where in-house lawyers have negotiated separate contracts with each organisation, and may include where the main organisation they work for wants them to work for an allied organisation (for example a joint venture or one or more subsidiary entities that are not companies in the same group – see Rule 15.2.4 of the Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care Rules 2008 “the Rules”). Read more →
In-House Interview
This month we have something a little different, an ex in-house counsel who has become an entrepreneur, Jo Freeman – the MD of Urban Harvest. Read more →
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In-house news via Bell Gully
- Leadership and complex legal work help earn Young Corporate Lawyer of the Year title
- Chinese-based companies boasting more local lawyers
- Cracking down on cartel behaviour
- ASIC's new guidelines for handling confidential information
- In-house counsel's take on twitter
- Keeping it simple
- Networking tips for in-house counsel
In-house ACCess
- A Value-based Client-firm Relationship: Part XII
- A Value-based Client-firm Relationship: Part XI
- A Creature of Habit Gets Out of Her Comfort Zone
- A Value-based Client-firm Relationship: Part X
- A Value-based Client-firm Relationship: Part IX
- A Value-based Client-firm Relationship: Part VIII
- Law Firm Salaries: Am I Having a Bad Dream?