LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 32 Flanagan is NZ’s premier plaintiff-side commercial litigator, like Fionnghuala Cuncannon and yet another Meredith Connell alumni, likely having argued more leading Fair Trading Act and Financial Markets Conduct Act cases than any other lawyer. Most recently he acted for the Ministry of Education in successful claims against James Hardie and […]
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 30 England became Chief Executive Partner in February 2021, succeeding Nick Wells after 28 years with the firm (partner since 2001, Auckland corporate practice leader for a decade). Chapman Tripp was named NZ Law Firm of the Year at 2024 KangaNews Awards (ninth consecutive win) and won the 2024 IDC
Anderson Lloyd is expanding its Christchurch team and presence in the South Island with the appointment of three senior partners from Chapman Tripp – a move that significantly strengthens the firm’s national capability in the infrastructure, energy and rural sectors and in resource management, property and private wealth. The lateral hire of Jo Appleyard, Ben
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New Zealand Law Firm News To an extensive background in employment law, health and safety and commercial litigation, Sherridan Cook now adds the role of National Chair of Buddle Findlay. Sherridan first joined the firm as a law clerk in Wellington, after growing up in Christchurch. After heading overseas, he returned to the firm around
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Among the LawFuel power lawyers list, published this week, are a new group of inhouse legal counsel wielding considerable power in the increasing influence of inhouse counsel in New Zealand’s legal scene. The recent collapse of SolarZero has seen the New Zealand Green Investment Fund’s future thrown into some doubt after the profile collapse when
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>> Check your new law job on New Zealand’s best law jobs network Auckland firms Glaister Ennor and Keegan Alexander are to merge in December, combining two mid-level power players in the Auckland legal market. The firms have a substantial history between them with Glaister Ennor, with 12 partners and over 60 staff and 100 years’ history while Keegan
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Russell McVeagh Opens First South Island Office Russell McVeagh is set to expand to the South Island, opening an office in Queenstown headed by local lawyer Tony Van Aart of Van Aart Sycamore Lawyers, the Dunedin-based commercial law boutique. The new office opens on 1 December and will take existing staff members from Van Aart
The 2023 Law Power List: Numbers 11 – 20 11 Adrienne Meikle New Entry Adrienne Meikle has built a solid career as a go-to operator with Government ranging across some of the most influential agencies and departments in Wellington. Chief Executive of the Commerce Commission, she is currently on secondment as Chief Executive of Toitū
Women In New Zealand Law – The 2023 Stats As women are the majority of lawyers in New Zealand and as gender equality remains elusive for many law firms, the annual LawFuel survey of gender equality among New Zealand firms does show an ongoing, albeit slow trend toward reaching the levels most in the profession
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