John Bowie

1 week 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.

1 month 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.

1 month ago | lawfuel.com | John Bowie

John Bowie, LawFuel PubisherLet’s get one thing straight: the legal industry’s relationship with data is about as functional as a law student’s relationship with sleep during finals week. We’ve got terabytes of client info, matter histories, and pitch outcomes piled up like unread emails in a partner’s inbox.

1 month ago | lawfuel.com | John Bowie

John Bowie, LawFuel PublisherThree weeks after issuing its clarion call to protect judicial independence, the American Bar Association is doubling down with a blistering critique of escalating government attacks on the third branch – and the lawyers who keep it running. , ABA President William R. Bay paints a picture of a justice system under siege from the very institutions meant to uphold it in an email LawFuel and other legal media received from the ABA.