Shaan Ross has returned from maternity leave to establish Statera Legal, a virtual provider of legal assistance services to law firms and legal practitioners.

Shaan was admitted to practise in New Zealand in 2007 and Western Australia in 2009 and has over five years' experience working in commercial law.

She spent four years working for a Wellington-based law firm which specialises in commercial and property law and spent over a year working for an insurance litigation firm in Western Australia, where she helped to establish a commercial practice. Shaan left practice in August 2012 to become a full-time mother.