Power List

The Multi-Million Dollar Legal Aid Lady . . And The Top Earning Providers

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Peter Johnston, Rainey Collins John Miller Sumudu Thode, Thode Utting Bill Lawson, Lance Lawson Erin Ebborn Darrell Naden, Tamaki Legal Charl Hirschfeld Sonja Cooper Legal Aid’s Top Provider – Sonja CooperThe largest legal aid providers according to Ministry of Justice figures show Tamaki Legal as top earner for both this and last year (figures are […]

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7 NZ Law Firms Leading The Technology ‘Charge’

Law technology developments, including the fast-growing artificial intelligence initiatives are rapidly changing how law services are delivered – and how lawyers operate.LawFuel looked at some of the kiwi law firms who are either actively deploying some of the latest technology, or who have implemented new platforms to deliver legal services, or are actively involved in the

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The Power Lawyers in Business

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Many of the top lawyers no longer practice in any conventional sense and yet hold significantly powerful roles in New Zealand commercial and public life.The Power List has accordingly placed our ‘lawyer business’ leaders into a separate list.David McLean – ‘Mr Westpac’ Former Macalister Mazengarb lawyer David McLean may have announced a flat profit for

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Ann Brennan

Ann Brennan, LawFuel Power List member

39 Ann BrennanAnn Brennan is a former senior counsel at Westpac and the Public Trust who is now Chief Legal advisor at the ‘Super Ministry’, the Ministry of Business and Innovation and Employment (MBIE) the super Ministry’s love child of Stephen Joyce and all-powerful provider of major funding disbursements across a variety of key sectors.Although MBIE retains

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42 Anna Rawlings

Anna Rawlings

42. Anna RawlingsNew Entrant – Commerce Commission Commissioner Anna Rawlings enters the list as a key figure in ComCom and also a strong contender to replace Dr Mark Berry. A former Minter Ellison partner she has been a Commissioner since 2014, holding key responsibility for regulatory, competition and related enforcement matters.Legal role with the NZ

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38 Ron Mansfield

38. Ron MansfieldCriminal lawyer Ron Mansfield has increasingly inherited the criminal law crown left vacant by the demise of such leaders as Peter Williams QC, although yet to receive the late lawyer’s lustrous status at the criminal bar. Regularly appearing in high profile criminal cases like the “designer drug” Operation Arc case and others. He

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