A new legal service will allow disputes to be resolved online without the need of court.

Mai Chen has launched an "online marketplace" for the legal profession.

A lawyer was sentenced for making false statements to help gain a $41 million bank loan.

Parole has been denied to a lawyer who "sometimes treats staff like receptionists".

Career workshops for female lawyers highlight the challenges women face in their careers.

EY has named the finalists for the Entrepreneur of the Year competition.

Buddle Findlay chairman's key role in Treaty of Waitangi settlements

Two Auckland lawyers have developed software to ensure companies' bookkeeping practices are above board.

Raising two kids and battling cancer - Juliet Mawley had to rely on Legal Aid in a recent hearing. But she feels shortchanged because of tightening budgets for legal aid across the country. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A robot that has successfully challenged more than 160,000 parking tickets, is now helping those who have lost their homes.

COMMENT: The legal profession should be possible to craft rules to bar certain kinds of nastiness.

COMMENT: The biggest problem facing the insolvency industry isn't unaccredited and unregulated professionals, it is passive liquidators.

On one of the documents he claimed witnessing a husband had forged his wife's signature.

COMMENT: Van Heeren claims he cannot pay the US$25m as most of his assets have been transferred to tax haven-based entities.

Many of Auckland's legal fraternity are making moves - out of their traditional locations and out of their offices, reports Anne Gibson.

Convicted South Canterbury Finance director Ed Sullivan has been censured by a lawyer's tribunal for the third time in less than a decade.

Is extending anti-money laundering laws to include lawyers the solution to dealing with foreign trusts?

The case between Alex van Heeren and Michael Kidd has reached a new round of appeals.

A former partner in an Auckland law firm since fallen on "hard times" has won for being unlawfully arrested and "charged over nothing".

The Supreme Court won't let Heartland New Zealand appeal a ruling that excused Vero Insurance New Zealand from covering losses.

A wide-ranging and five year review, released today, examines New Zealand's burial and cremation law and recommends the current Act be repealed

Wonderful tales told by an uncle who practised law in Surfers Paradise led Tim Rainey to the verdict that law was the profession for him.

"Why doesn't she leave?" That is the wrong question to ask. It places responsibility for the situation on the victim, rather than the perpetrator, writes Catriona MacLennan.

Businessman Michael Thompson argues he should be able to keep more than half of an $8 million payment the Supreme Court says is relationship property.

Three overseas investors' claim against a law firm associated with an ill-fated Auckland housing development can now be revived.

When a High Court judge comes out and makes a formal declaration that Parliament has failed to protect human rights, then we really should sit up and pay attention, writes Andrew Geddis.

There is a very strong public interest in ensuring that the state has the power and resources to investigate the commission of criminal offences, writes Nick Russell.

Electricity retailer and generator Trustpower has lost the latest round of a $8.9m tax battle.

Michael October is not a rapist and murderer but he carries that stigma with him every day of his life, writes Jarrod Gilbert.