As with fellow Power List member Pip Greenwood, Cathy Quinn provides an example of successful lawyers who have morphed into roles as professional directors, although unlike her colleague she retains a role with her firm, MinterEllisonRuddWatts, as Consultant. A former Hawkes Bay girl, she holds a number of governance roles serving as a non-executive director […]
Former Chapman Tripp partner Daniel Kalderimis had already established himself as one of the country’s leading complex litigation and disputes operators, but his role has been further cemented with his move to the bar. Practising from both Auckland and Wellington, as well as having a position with London’s Twenty Essex Chambers (via their Singapore Chambers)
New Entrant – Setareh Stienstra comes into the List as a new entrant and building upon her substantial public law involvement. A barrister at Kate Sheppard Chambers she is recognised as a highly effective operator in the public law arena. Sitting as an independent hearings commissioner and is endorsed to sit as a chairperson she
She may be settling in at the bottom of the List, but Fiona Kidd-Guy is top of the list for many seeking her services as a successful criminal lawyer and mover-and-shaker from Southland. The first Invercargill-based QC to be appointed since early last century she moved south from Auckland in 2011 where she joined AWS
Bruce Gray continues to handle heavy-weight criminal and civil briefs with his recent representation on behalf of the Anglican Church in respect of the Abuse in Care Inquiry, the unnamed, jailed high profile businessman convicted of sexual assault claims and his recent representation of the National Party in Winston Peter’s lengthy breach of privacy claim
Handling major legal work for The Treasury as Treasury Solicitor place major power in Anthea Williams’ hands, following her appointment to the role in June 2020. With degrees from Victoria University and the University of Toronto, she is responsible for the Treasury’s legal work, including their ministerial advisory services. A former Crown Counsel she also
Another under-the-radar influencer who commands respect and influence within the so-called Wellington beltway. A legal adviser to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) she has been a key adviser to the Prime Minister on a variety of issues that have characterised the Prime Minister’s Prime Ministership. The DPMC is a mid-sized government agency,
LawFuel’s 2020 Lawyer of the Year Cassie Nicholson has been front-and-centre for the COVID pandemic, marshalling legal forces and commanding quiet respect throughout the public service higher echelons for her work amending, revising, updating and writing legislative orders and laws permitting the country to ride out the pandemic successfully. ==> Lawyer of the Year Interview
Anna Rawlings has readily assumed the mantle of competition and fair trading watchdog with an accompanying rapid rise up the Power List (again) and raised headlines with her recent castigation of the supermarket duopoly that hike their ‘specials’ to their captive market. However it has been more than just the grocers who have come under
Part of Russell McVeagh’s makeover after its years of bad press following the sexual assault issues has been to appoint resource management lawyer Allison Arthur-Young as the firm’s chair. Canadian-born Arthur-Young joined Russell McVeagh in 2005 after working for Chen Palmer and following her immigration to New Zealand five years earlier. Although she presents a
