Madeleine Cochrane Wright has joined specialist environmental law firm Berry Simons as a senior associate.

Madeleine Cochrane Wright. 

She joins the firm from the Department of Conservation where she was legal lead in the pre-consultation stage of developing the National Policy Statement. Before that she spent almost four years as senior solicitor at the Environmental Defence Society.

Madeleine has been involved in plan change or resource consent processes throughout New Zealand, from hearings before councils and the Environment Court, to the Court of Appeal. She has also been active on a number of advisory boards and committees over the last four years.