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Arno Duvenhage and Michael Goulborn have joined law firm MJM Limited’s dispute resolution team as senior associates. Mr Duvenhage is an experienced commercial litigator whose practice focuses on company, insolvency, banking and financial law with e...

Three law graduates have joined a trainee programme at a prominent island legal firm. Kinika Armstrong, Jeffrey Blair and Ryann Hollis have joined Appleby’s two-year training programme. Brad Adderley, Appleby’s Bermuda managing partner, said: “I am p...

Former US ambassador to Ukraine and New York Times bestselling author Marie Yovanovitch was at the top of the bill at the recent Women, Influence & Power in Law 2022 conference in Washington DC, attended by Appleby partner Tammy Richardson-Augustus. ...

The island’s newest lawyer was praised by his colleagues in a Call to the Bar ceremony at the Supreme Court with a quote from US rapper Kendrick Lamar to illustrate his perseverance. Reid Orchard, a hip-hop fan as well as a fourth-generation lawyer, ...

A disputes specialist believes that a planned international arbitration centre is overambitious and that Bermuda could instead become a hub for the hearings using modest office space. Mark Chudleigh, a partner at the law firm Kennedys, added that it ...

A grandmother who hoped her granddaughter would become a lawyer got her wish at a ceremony in the Supreme Court as Nicole Yearwood joined the Bermuda Bar. Ms Yearwood was embarking on a career at a major Bermuda reinsurance firm when her experiences ...

When she was six, Chardonnai Hughes wrote on her student-of-the-month poster that she wanted to become a lawyer – a picture of it sent by her mother helped motivate her thought the difficult times as she completed her legal journey to join the Bermud...

Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited's dispute resolution and litigation practice continues to grow with the appointment of senior associate Bradley Houlston, associate Charlotte Donnelly and the secondment of Bermudian associate Jonathan Marion from the firm...

Aqueelah Simmons has joined Chancery Legal Ltd as an associate in the litigation department. The Bermudian attorney’s main practice areas are civil and criminal litigation, family/matrimonial law and immigration law. Since October 2022, Ms Simmons ha...

A new lawyer joined the Bar in a ceremony packed with family and friends at the Supreme Court on Friday. Tashae Trott thanked Sophia Greaves, director of the corporate department at Conyers Dill & Pearman, for inspiring her at age 16 to pursue law. M...

It is common knowledge that directors of companies owe a duty to the company to act in its best interests. Less well understood is the principle that, when a company reaches a certain level of financial distress, the directors’ duties shift to includ...

Kiara Wilkinson celebrated joining the Bermuda Bar in a ceremony in the Supreme Court yesterday. Ms Wilkinson, who in her second year of Appleby’s legal trainee programme, said she was “humbled” by the event and thankful for the support she has recei...