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Annual reports

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 2011/2012 Annual Report to Members (1.7 MB) 

As regulator of the New Zealand legal profession, the New Zealand Law Society is responsible for issuing practising certificates. Some of the information which is obtained in this process is summarised to show key indicators on the makeup of New Zealand’s legal services providers:

 A Snapshot of the New Zealand Legal Profession 2013 (996 KB)
 A Snapshot of the New Zealand Legal Profession 2012 (379 KB) 
 A Snapshot of the New Zealand Legal Profession 2011 (672.4 KB)