LawFuel Power List 2025
No. 34
The “divorce trust diva” has consistently held top rankings in both global and Asia-Pacific Chambers guides, handling high-profile divorce cases with multi-jurisdictional complications and appearing in the LawFuel list since 2019.
Her practice involves complex relationship property matters, particularly where trusts obscure asset ownership.
Recent personal challenges, including the sudden death of her first husband, have added public dimension to her professional reputation, something she has by now possibly become used to.
Professionally, she advocates for broadening “property” definitions in relationship cases and better recognition of economic disparity, particularly for traditional wives. Her sponsorship of the annual Justice Sir Robert Chambers Memorial Moot at Auckland Law School extends influence to emerging lawyers.
Her talks to women lawyers and broader audiences position her as both practitioner and thought leader. At No. 34, Chambers represents specialized excellence: family law lacks the profile of commercial litigation, but when wealthy couples divorce, she’s the silk they brief. That’s power in a niche—but a lucrative, consequential niche.
