Fiona Carney joins Simpson Grierson

Fiona Carney has joined Simpson Grierson as a senior consultant in its health and safety advisory business. She has over 20 years' experience in the health and safety sector in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, after beginning her career in the explosives industry. She has worked in health and safety…

Lawyer named Young New Zealander of the Year

Auckland lawyer Rez Gardi has been named University of Auckland Young New Zealander of the Year. Ms Gardi, who works in corporate litigation at Chapman Tripp, graduated from the University of Auckland with LLB(Hons) and a BA in political studies and international relations, and criminology in 2016. She was admitted as…

Kent Perry rejoins Heaney & Partners

Kent Perry has rejoined Auckland firm Heaney & Partners as an Associate. Kent was admitted in August 2009 and began his career working in a boutique insurance litigation practice before joining the predecessor firm to Heaney & Partners in 2010. He moved to London in 2012 and has returned…

Seven NZ award winners in ILO 2017 Client Choice Awards

Seven New Zealand lawyers have won awards in New Zealand categories in the International Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Awards 2017. The awards were established in 2005 and are run by the Global Business Media Group publication Lexology. Nominations for an award may only be made by in-house counsel. Client and…

NZ firms in Financial Review Client Choice award final

New Zealand law firms and lawyers have been chosen as finalists in the Australian Financial Review Client Choice Awards 2017. The awards, which are researched by Australian consultancy Beaton Research, will be presented in Sydney on 7 March 2017. The awards are made to professional services providers in law, accounting, consulting…

Julie Maxton now Bankside Chambers associate

Julie Maxton has joined Auckland's Bankside Chambers as an associate member. Dr Maxton's academic career saw her on the academic staff of the University of Canterbury and University of Auckland, where she was apopinted a Professor of Law in 1993 and was Dean of the Faculty of Law between 2000 and…

DLA Piper announces Auckland office plans

DLA Piper says it will move its Auckland office to new premises in the PwC Tower at Commercial Bay from June 2019. The firm says it has committed to lease two floors in the 39-level premium commercial development planned for Auckland's CBD area and will create a state-of-the-art, open plan workplace…

Gisborne lawyer appointed to rugby appeals committee

New Zealand Law Society Vice-President (North Island) Tiana Epati has been appointed a member of the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union Appeals Committee. Ms Epati, who is a partner with Gisborne law firm Rishworth Wall & Mathieson, replaces lawyer Doug Rishworth on the committee.

New CR Law partner

Kirsten Harper became a partner at CR Law Lawyers on 16 January and will be based in CR Law’s Feilding office. Before joining the firm Kirsten was in partnership with another Manawatu-based firm. Her main focus is property law, including all aspects of commercial, rural and residential. She is also…

Minter Ellison Rudd Watts has two new partners

Briony Davies joined the firm in 2015 and was Special Counsel in the Wellington Dispute Resolution practice before her promotion to the partnership. She has advised on a wide range of public law issues for both Government and private sector clients. Tom Maasland joined the partnership as a member of the…