Lawyer profiles

• Margaret Casey QC: I’m a Casey from Taumarunui

  It takes a while to coax Margaret Casey, QC, into an interview.“I’m not sure if you can tell, but I hate talking about myself,” she says when we eventually connect.Unassuming and direct, the Auckland barrister’s path to law school, and through the workforce, is its own tale of determination.Photo:…

• The tech lawyer helping building networks for young professionals

  Nick Valentine leads DLA Piper's intellectual property and technology team and has extensive experience in technology, IP and telecommunications transactions as well as privacy and cybersecurity advisory work.Auckland-based Nick advises public and private sector entities on large-scale business process and IT outsourcing and systems integration; software development and licensing;…

• International litigator enjoys the many stages of world opera

  A spiral staircase in an 18th century apartment next to the Vienna Opera House…

• Devilish times at the heart of Scots law

  Glasgow-born Fergus Whyte – believed to be the first New Zealand qualified lawyer to…

• Call of the wild inspires hunter-lawyer

  Active hunter, book collector and outdoorsman Gwyn Thurlow says he has managed to make…

• International arbitrator returns to Aotearoa shores

  Zoe Brentnall returned to Gilbert Walker earlier this year after seven years practising international…

Obituaries

• Cyril Bertram Boock 1927-2020

  Retired Wellington lawyer Cyril Boock passed away on 15 July 2020 at the age of 93.Cyril started his career in the firm of Leicester Rainey and McCarthy (now Rainey Collins) at the age of 17 in 1944 while studying law at Victoria University. He was paid the princely sum…

• Roger Brewster 1933-2020

  Well-known Rotorua lawyer Roger Brewster passed away on 25 June 2020 at the age of 87. Roger was also a Coroner in the city for several years.In 1958 he joined Ted East at the firm which had been established in 1913 by Les Dingle. For many years he was…

• Judge Michael John Albert (Mick) Brown CNZM, 1937 - 2015

  New Zealand's first Principal Youth Court Judge Mick Brown died in Auckland on 2…

• Warren John Scotter 1947 – 2020

  Waikato lawyer Warren Scotter has died at the age of 72. Warren was a…

• Sir Edward Denis Blundell GCMG GCVO KBE QSO, 1907 – 1984

  The first New Zealand resident to be appointed Governor-General, Sir Denis spent 32 years…

• Ivan Kwok 1941-2020

  Kua hinga tētahi totara nui a te wao nui a Tāne | A great…