Daan’s Snippets – 6th October 2024
Gentle Reader SWMBO and I had embarked on a short tour of Portugal. Our food tour revealed that, what we locally regard as Portuguese food,...
TPN report reveals rising residential vacancies amid declining demand
Residential vacancy rates have increased across all provinces and rental value bands, according to TPN’s Residential Vacancy Survey Report. Vacancies increased from 4.42% in...
Mr Arnold Shapiro wins the 2024 FISA Chairperson’s Award
At the 14th Annual FISA Conference sponsored by Hollard Court Bonds, held at the Sandton Convention Centre on 11 September, the annual FISA Chairperson’s...
Hogan Lovells to close offices in Johannesburg, Sydney and Warsaw
Hogan Lovells is set close its offices in Johannesburg, Sydney and Warsaw, citing a focus on “strategic markets”.
The firm will lay off its lawyers...
Lawyers turn to AI to expand pro bono work
At the height of witness examinations for the UK government’s Covid-19 inquiry in 2023, Norton Rose Fulbright was receiving thousands of documents a week,...
Daan’s Snippets – 30th August 2024
Gentle Reader
This is the last Snippets that I will be emailing to you – this note heralds the second change of method of delivery...
e4’s Girls in STEM initiative sees new generation of young female leaders take the...
Fintech specialist e4 is celebrating a major milestone of its Girls in STEM program, an initiative dedicated to empowering young girls in underprivileged areas...
Empowering women: Society has come a long way, but there’s more to be done
9 August 2024 | On this Women’s Day 2024, Sabinet celebrates the resilience, strength, and brilliance of every woman who dares to dream and...
HiveLaw – How collaboration and tech is shaping the future of university law clinics
Cognisant of this significant responsibility, tech start-up LawLabz, in collaboration with leading corporate and commercial law firm, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH), CloudEssentials, and the Nelson Mandela University recently unveiled HiveLaw, an innovative legal office that enables employees of the law clinic and its students to use the same type of technology they would encounter in a modern legal practice.
Fiduciary-related court case summaries by FISA
The Fiduciary Institute of Southern Africa (FISA) has developed an extensive archive of court case summaries relating to fiduciary matters. The summaries are written...
What Makes a Great Change Leader? It’s all about taking the lead
Change is inevitable.
And for the most part - when it comes to changes within organisations - businesses have managed change rather than lead it....
Freedom Under Law challenges Parliament’s designation of Dr MJ Hlophe as a member of...
Freedom Under Law (FUL) has instituted litigation in the Western Cape High court to challenge the designation by the National Assembly of Dr MJ Hlophe as a member of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).