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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Chapman Tripp are delighted in their new offices in Wellington having won an ArchitectureNow award for the fitout of their new offices in the Deloitte building, Customhouse Quay. The new offices, over two levels, accommodate around 130 people in the building, providing a combination of reception, amenity and meeting spaces. The judges described the fitout
Linda Clark from Dentons Kensington Swan has received some major appointments in the public sector lately, including to the TVNZ board.
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