LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 29 Tipping is ranked “hall of fame” by Asia Pacific Legal 500 (banking and finance), named NZ lawyer of the year for leveraged buyouts multiple times by Best Lawyers, and awarded highest ranking in restructuring/insolvency by International Financial Law Review. UK publication Finance Monthly twice named him among the top […]
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 43 Campbell becomes the 34th NZ Law Society President on March 27, 2026, succeeding Frazer Barton after serving as Vice President since 2022. A Dentons litigation partner with 23+ years’ practice (previously Kensington Swan, Morrison Kent, Goldsmiths London specializing in defamation), Campbell’s leadership credentials include Auckland Branch President (2016), Law
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 42 Paul Majurey chairs Eke Panuku Development Auckland (overseeing waterfront/Wynyard Quarter development), chairs the Maunga Authority, and manages a $115 million iwi investment fund. His 26-year specialization in environmental/Treaty law positions him as lead negotiator for 30 iwi in Treaty negotiations. His work on “Maungārongo” development with Ockham Residential is
LawFuel Power List No. 4 Over 600 cases resulting in High Court judgments. That’s not a typo, Hodder’s been appearing in New Zealand’s senior courts since 1980, racking up victories and precedents with the relentlessness of a metronome. His Three Waters work (representing Timaru, Waimakariri, and Whangarei councils) put him at the intersection of local
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 3 Our highest-ranking independent lawyer on the List and now something of a staple is former Solicitor-General (2012-2016) who has become New Zealand’s go-to independent investigator for scandals too sensitive for the usual suspects. His 2025 workload included the Public Service Commission’s personal information protection probe (finalized May 2025) and
Cuncannon launched her eponymous plaintiff litigation firm in 2024 after a decade as Meredith Connell partner, betting New Zealand was ready for American-style class action specialists. The move shows the evolution of the plaintiff bar, litigation funding and class actions as a growth market. The firm establishment gamble paid off with Chambers ranking her in
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 2 Kitteridge’s August 2025 appointment as Professor of Practice at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government wasn’t just a plum academic gig—it was a coronation. The Deputy Public Service Commissioner role already gave her the ear of every minister who matters; Oxford gives her global heft. Her CV reads like New
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 1 Una Jagose may be stepping down in February, but she clings to the top spot on the LawFuel Power List by continued influence in the top law role. It was not the easiest year. She had already faced issues with her late-2024 prosecution guidelines suggesting ethnicity might factor into
December 10, 2025. Buchalter is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Glasgow and Jennifer Van Duzer have joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as Shareholders. Glasgow will serve as the national Co-Chair of the firm’s Trusts and Estates group, representing the estate planning practice. She will serve in the role along with current Chair, Gordon Stuart, representing
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Sigrid McCawley: The Lawyer Who Made the Untouchables Touchable Why She’s Our 2025 Lawyer of the Year Sonia Hickey, LawFuel contributing writer In a legal landscape where justice often moves at glacial speed, Sigrid McCawley is the wrecking ball nobody saw coming. The power lawyer who takes on the most powerful fortresses is LawFuel’s US
