The Asia Pacific Legal 500 rankings have been released, identifying the leading lawyers across a number of practice ‘bands’. The Guide ranks law firms for each of the categories and lists individual New Zealand lawyers working in firms who it deems to be “Leading Individuals” or “Next Generation Lawyers”. >> Latest law jobs on the
Auckland Law School Dean Andrew Stockley sits atop the largest law school in New Zealand. He has ridden out the tough road in the ‘bums on seats’ row over a year ago that created discord within the faculty ranks, but running the largest law school in the country creates a powerful presence within the profession.
The growing influence and power of sport has seen Warren Alcock inhabit the List for a couple of years, albeit down slightly as a result of increased numbers within the list. A native of Napier, he graduated from Otago Law Schoolwith a first class honours degree together with a BA in economics. Before leaving the faculty
Aaron Martin* The parent visa category, which may be reopened soon, is criticised as too costly to the taxpayer. But perhaps the problem lies in the policy settings that permit access to welfare and health services. Pundits expect the Government will soon make a decision on whether to reopen the parent visa category. The category, which
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Lady Deborah Chambers QC is a prominent and powerful lawyer within the profession, as well as being heavily involved in numerous legal organisations. Lady Deborah has been a prominent member of the bar for some years, casting her elegant and stylish shadow upon a range of cases in the relationship property and trusts arena, as well
Jonathan Woodhams is nominally the Executive Director of litigation funder LPF Group, but his power lies more in his position helping to select and direct some of the most significant, civil litigation in New Zealand. Working closely with a high powered board at the Funder, including former Supreme Court Justice Bill Wilson QC, fellow director
Running the largest criminal defence organisation in the country provides Peter Hutchinson with an influence that can hardly be understated. Appointed to his role as Director of the Public Defence Service in December 2017, he has 20 years’ experience as a barrister behind him, as well as working for the PDS since 2010. The PDS
Mai Chen’s ubiquitous hyper-energetic performance across legal, commercial, academic and political platforms continued during 2018, although her ranking has slipped somewhat. Running her Beltway-style public law firm handling public policy and legislative issues, she has continued to help set the agenda for legal and legislative thinking as well as regularly writing or commenting upon legal
Sir David Williams QC, former jurist and New Zealand’s leading arbitrator retains one of the busiest arbitration practices in New Zealand, ruling on some of the most complex and high value arbitrations in the world where he has been involved either as counsel or arbitrator in over 130 international arbitrations. His work involving oil and
