Power List

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

With a government that has a strong affiliation to commissioning enquiries and reports, Victoria Casey QC has become something of a go to Silk with such matters, having led the Crown in the challenge to the COVID lockdown brought by former legal academic and former Crown Counsel Andrew Borrowdale, as well as defending the Crown

The mega-search engine’s man-on-the-ground in Wellington cannot be anything but powerful when Google continue to increase their own power via the lobbying handled by Ross Young. The web giant’s footprint globally is massive already, but it is also expanding its investment and activities in New Zealand with increased engineering activities by setting up a software

The growing significance of sports in New Zealand has continued to provide Warren Alcock with a placement in the Power List, regarded by many in the business as being the country’s leading sports agent. A native of Napier, he graduated from Otago Law School with a first class honours degree together with a BA in economics.  Before

Barrister Katherine Anderson rejoins the Power List following her 2015 entry when she was Auckland Council’s lead counsel. She has brought a diverse range of talents and experience to her practice, now as a barrister at Auckland’s Sangro Chambers.  As Deputy Chair of the Human Rights Review Tribunal and lead counsel assisting both the Catholic

Previous winner of LawFuel’s ‘Lawyer of the Year’, MinterEllison litigation and dispute resolution partner Stacey Shortall is on the list not only for her obvious legal abilities over her 20 year career, including a lengthy stint in New York, but more for her work as an inspirational charity and woman law leader. She has received

Former Bell Gully executive chair Roger Partridge has elevated his public profile since departing a lead role at the firm in 2014. Co-founding the think tank the New Zealand Initiative he has been at the forefront of dealing with issues confronting the continued development of New Zealand economic and social institutions and effectiveness, heightened recently