Features
The Family Files - Debt-dominant division - By Maria Kazmierow, barrister 
The costs of unhappy break-ups: mediation, confidentiality, and references - By Greg Cain, partner, and Jennifer Jones, solicitor, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
Competition Matters - Search and seizure in the commercial regulatory context - By Roger Partridge, partner, Jesse Wilson, solicitor, and Simon Ladd, senior associate, Bell Gully
Minding your own business - If you’re considering becoming an independent director, you should be prepared to ask a lot of dumb questions, Darise Ogden discovers
Can the business survive? - In order to survive, a struggling business needs to be championed. Bryan Williams explains
Client care Q&A - Since “Client Care? – Yeah Right” (NZLawyer, Issue 92, 11 July 2008) Ron Pol and fellow consultant Ashley Balls have received numerous queries from practitioners. Here, they offer responses to some of the questions with their interpretation of the new requirements from a practical, client-focused perspective
The proposed exemption to patent infringement and our research institutes - By Stuart Bradshaw, solicitor, Clendons
Fine upstanding odd fellows - Amy Mansfield talks to two in-house lawyers who stand out by standing up
Translating the R-Word - Amy Mansfield talks to Mamari Stephens about the sexiness of the Legal Maori Dictionary Project
2008 NZLawyer’s Best Dressed Lawyers - Amy Mansfield speaks to this year's winners; Susan Hornsby-Geluk, partner at Kensington Swan, Wellington and Garth Gallaway, partner at Duncan Cotterill, Christchurch