Avocats – New Zealand

Jessica Hanning

Partner - Dispute Resolution, Construction

Anthony Harper

Jessica Phillips

Partner

Tompkins Wake

Jim Roberts

Jim Roberts is a Partner at Hesketh Henry, with over 30 years of experience in employment law. Jim provides extensive expertise across all aspects of employment law, regularly assisting clients from diverse industries in developing and implementing their employment strategies. His areas of focus include collective bargaining, personal grievance processes, disputes, human rights and health and safety. Key Strengths: Strategic Legal Advice: Jim offers strategic legal advice and is often involved in union disputes and collective agreement issues. Industry Engagement: He frequently presents at conferences for various institutes and writes on current trends and developments in employment law, with his work published in various publications. Client Understanding: Jim enjoys getting to know his clients’ businesses and understanding the people behind the issues. Jim’s deep experience and commitment to understanding his clients’ needs make him a trusted advisor in the field of employment law.

Hesketh Henry

Jo-Anne Knight

Partner

Simpson Grierson

Jodi Sharman

Jodi is a specialist employment lawyer who works with employees, employers, and unions on all employment law matters and litigation issues. Her expertise includes day to day advice, performance and disciplinary processes, restructuring and redundancy, medical incapacity as well as drafting and reviewing employment agreements and policies. Jodi has appeared before the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court, District Court, and High Court, and frequently represents clients at mediations and in negotiations. Key Strengths: Approach: A pragmatic approach to legal issues that delivers practical, commercial outcomes. Communication: Clear, effective and timely communication. Educational Contributions: Jodi regularly presents workshops, seminars, and webinars to clients, as well as for external hosts, institutions and conference providers. Industry Recognition: Jodi writes regularly on current trends and developments in employment law and has been interviewed for New Zealand news topics and publications. Jodi’s knowledge, experience and strengths make her a trusted advisor in the employment law field.

Hesketh Henry

Joey James

Partner - Dispute Resolution

Anthony Harper

John Conlan

Partner and Head of Corporate (Wellington)

MinterEllisonRuddWatts

John Kirkwood

John is a highly experienced commercial and trust lawyer. He has a particular interest in small to medium enterprises and family businesses and advises their owners and operators on a wide range of legal issues affecting their personal, trust and business affairs including business and trust restructuring, succession planning for individuals and exit and transition planning for the businesses they own. John also advises leading and offshore companies operating in New Zealand across a diverse range of industries. In his professional capacity, John is a director of a number of private companies and a trustee of various family trusts.

Hesketh Henry

John McCay

Partner

MinterEllisonRuddWatts

John Rooney

Partner

Simpson Grierson

Jordan Oldham

Senior Associate

MinterEllisonRuddWatts

Jordan Wright

Special Counsel - Corporate and M&A, Transport

Anthony Harper

Joseph Harrop

Based in our Auckland office, Joseph specialises in employment law, and health and safety law. He regularly advises and represents clients on a broad spectrum of both employment, and health and safety matters – including restructuring, performance management, strikes and lockouts, disciplinary processes and compliance with health and safety legislation and regulations.

Lane Neave

Josh Cairns

Partner

Simpson Grierson

Joshua Leckie

Joshua is a resource management and environmental lawyer, with extensive experience across a range of projects and transactions. He leads Lane Neave’s national resource management team. Before joining Lane Neave he worked at a major New Zealand law firm. He regularly advises on the development of nationally significant projects under the Resource Management Act and associated legal regimes across New Zealand. He and his experienced team also provide a wide range of associated project development and commercial property related advice, including on overseas investments in New Zealand involving sensitive land. Joshua’s clients include major property development and investment companies, iwi, and businesses with significant land use requirements. He acts on many of New Zealand’s most contentious resource management projects, which are summarised here. Joshua is well connected to experienced result driven expert witnesses in New Zealand’s resource management industry and has a commercially focused approach. He brings a unique skill set to assist clients. Joshua is ranked as a leading Environment & Resource Management Lawyer in the 2022 Doyle’s Guide for New Zealand.

Lane Neave

Julika Wahlmann-Smith

Julika is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial Team. Julika’s experience includes advising on a wide range of corporate and commercial law issues, with a focus on advising clients in the context of business sales or acquisitions, foreign investment, advertising law and intellectual property rights. She is fluent in German and regularly advises foreign investors. Julika is President of the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) Asia Pacific Region (an alliance of lawyers located throughout the world with expertise and experience in advertising, marketing and promotion law). Julika became a Partner in January 2023.

Hesketh Henry

June Hardacre

Partner

MinterEllisonRuddWatts

Justin March

DLA Piper New Zealand

Karen Kemp

Partner - Dispute Resolution, Construction

Anthony Harper

Karen Ngan

Partner

Simpson Grierson

Kate Anderson

Senior Associate

MinterEllisonRuddWatts

Kate Cornegé

Partner

Tompkins Wake

Kate Cruickshank

Partner

MinterEllisonRuddWatts

Kate Lane

Partner

MinterEllisonRuddWatts