John Bowie

1 week ago | lawfuel.com | John Bowie

In a legal world where billable hours often translate to burnout, Laura Cowan, Esq., CPA, has flipped the script with a refreshing approach that’s making waves across a profession that is increasingly focused on the elusive ‘work life balance’ holy grail. Laura Cowan didn’t just build a successful estate planning practice-she created an entirely new model that’s helping attorneys nationwide escape the traditional law firm hamster wheel.

1 week ago | lawfuel.com | John Bowie

John BowieBob Jones. It is such an ordinary name, a ‘nothing to see here’ one, yet attaching to a man so extraordinary in so many ways.  But Bob, as those who always knew him before the honorific interfered, was a character almost undefinable by most standards and one of New Zealand’s most idiosyncratically stirring heroes.

1 month ago | lawfuel.com | John Bowie

John Bowie, LawFuel publisherWhen your mid-size firm is dropping 11 percent on office space where associates strategically hide from partner eye contact, but can’t spare 1 percent for legal publishing, perhaps it’s time to reconsider your budget priorities? That’s the free management advice law firms might need after Clio’s latest Legal Trends Report exposed where those hard-earned billables actually disappear1.

1 month ago | lawfuel.com | John Bowie

Oh, the drama that unfolds when a judge, a political party, and a swanky club collide. Auckland District Court Judge Ema Aitken finds herself in a delicious legal pickle of her own making, fighting for her judicial reputation in New Zealand’s High Court after allegedly crashing Winston Peters’ party – literally and figuratively. Judge Aitken’s version of events at the Northern Club has all the makings of an awkward sitcom scenario.

2 months ago | lawfuel.com | John Bowie

John Bowie, LawFuel publisherKiwi lawyer Sarah Wynn-Williams is very much in the red chair at present – sitting in the hot seat with a book about the increasingly hot-button issues involving the new nerdyverse in which we now live seemingly run by tech billionaires. Wynn-Williams’ book, ‘Careless People’ has already created a firestorm of criticism, akin to a major Net outage, and made the former Silicon Valley high flier persona non grata in the Valley.