Auckland barrister Anna Adams has been appointed New Zealand Solicitor-General. With 28 years of public law experience and a Yale LLM, she takes on the Crown's top legal role from May 2026.

In the common law world, some countries maintain a split legal profession by separately recognising the roles of “barrister” and “solicitor”. This division stems primarily from historical ties to the ...

Barrister Robert Courts KC MP says he is looking forward to working with the attorney general, government lawyers and civil servants to uphold the rule of law after being sworn in as solicitor general ...

Research will be carried out to understand how solicitors choose barristers and what can be done to ensure clients have as broad a choice as possible. The Bar Standards Board has outlined plans to ...

Lawyers and attorneys and counselors and solicitors and esquires and barristers, oh my! Why are lawyers called so many different things? OK, OK, I only included the ones fit to print in a family ...

Law.com International spoke with silks and senior juniors at the major London commercial sets about the 'beauty pageant' of selection, getting 'screwed' on fees, and the evolving barrister-solicitor ...