Lawyer profiles
-
Film buff and miner’s son probes New Zealand’s rugby obsession
15 June 2017
He claims to know the dialogue of Casablanca backwards, but in his latest challenge Greymouth-born Auckland barrister Des Wood sets…
-
NEW IN THE LAW: Shaun Burmester, WCM Legal, Wellington
8 June 2017
Shaun Burmester grew up in Tauranga with his sister and parents. They lived on a small lifestyle block that had…
-
Lion Red man finds ordinary life in foreign supermarkets
7 June 2017
When Commerce Commission principal competition lawyer and vinyl record buff David Blacktop went out on his own recently, his wife…
-
Former Russell McVeagh solicitor, full-time windsurfer
6 June 2017
Born in Auckland to a French mother and an Italian father, Antonio Cozzolino spent about half of his life in…
-
Pathways in the Law: Khan & Associates, a multicultural approach to practising law
6 June 2017
Khan & Associates’ founder, Mohammed Faiyam Khan, was practising law before Ronald Reagan became President of the United States.He was…
-
NEW IN THE LAW: Thea Davison, Solicitor, Wain & Naysmith
1 June 2017
Born in the town of Rugby, England, Thea Davison moved to Australia in 1999 where her family settled on the…
-
Nomadic adventurer fancies saki-sipping hot soak in snow
31 May 2017
After 10 years working in Japan, and a brush with employment law in Sydney, hip hop vinyl lover Nicholas Eketone-TeKanawa…
-
US Chief Justice John G Roberts' career
31 May 2017
United States Chief Justice John Roberts will visit Victoria University’s Law School in July to teach a four-day executive development…
-
How anti-Apartheid protests sparked triathlete’s legal ambition
25 May 2017
It’s a tense couple of weeks for Sasha Daniels – senior in-house lawyer at Spark and nephew of South Africa’s…
-
Pathways in the Law: Oceanlaw New Zealand
22 May 2017
Practising marine law is not for the faint-hearted or those that wish to spend their day stuck behind an office…
-
Waipuk’s high-flying Maserati girl “only a lawyer”
18 May 2017
She may have graduated with what she dubs a “plain old vanilla LLB”, disappointed her Dad by not being a…
-
Why the Paisley Snail matters to law firm’s bottle-collecting chairman
11 May 2017
Blenheim-born bottle-collecting musician Paul Beverley was living in a 17th century cottage and waitering in an oyster bar at Loch…
-
NEW IN THE LAW: Hannah Reuben, Solicitor, McCarthy Law, Blenheim
11 May 2017
Growing up in Rangiora, North Canterbury with her younger brother, Hannah Reuben attended Southbrook Primary School and went on to…
-
Ismail Rasheed’s fascinating path to tax law specialist
5 May 2017
Coming from the remote Maldives in the Indian Ocean motivated a Wellington-based immigrant lawyer to excel in two difficult and…
-
The new lawyer: Emma von Veh, Solicitor, Ministry of Health, Wellington
5 May 2017
Born in South Africa, Emma von Veh’s family moved to New Zealand when she was a child.“At high school, my…
Last updated on the 16th October 2019