Current Opportunities

Commercial Litigation Solicitor  - Intermediate/Senior - Wellington office
John Shackleton and Tim Stephens

Partners John Shackleton and Tim Stephens lead the Wellington Commercial Litigation team.  The team acts for large corporate, state sector and local government clients.  Their expertise covers energy, networks and utilities; financial services; insolvency; trade practices and commercial property.  They also specialise in advising on regulatory issues and judicial review, and regularly represent clients in the courts, arbitrations, mediations and negotiations in a wide variety of commercial and public law disputes.  

We are seeking a solicitor with 5 plus years' relevant experience with the ability to work under pressure and make an impact in a high performing environment.

Please contact:

Madeline Bower
Human Resources Manager
Telephone
+64 9 977 5242 

Legal Administrators – permanent and fixed term,  Auckland

Over the next few months we need to recruit legal administrators for our Auckland office.   As a legal administrator you are part of a multi-skilled team.  You are tasked with assisting the firm to meet its business goals by providing administrative support to our authors and partners.  The 'hub' model enables you to work closely with the other legal administrators to provide support firm-wide and to each other.  A  hub is generally made up of three or four legal administrators providing support to a number of legal teams.  While you will spend most of your time providing support to the legal teams within your hub's vicinity, it is expected that you will extend support to other hubs across all three offices if the need arises.
 
The successful candidates will have 5-7 years legal secretarial or personal assistant in a legal or corporate role.  Experience in diary management, filing, archiving, travel coordination, client management, opening and closing matters, and billing is desired.   High standards and a proven track record of achieving excellence in all aspects of your work is a must.

We provide outstanding training and development programmes, state of the art technology, administrative training, frequent social events, a gym and corporate sports events.

If you would like to be considered for a position please email your CV and covering letter to   or for a confidential discussion please call Liz Reed, Human Resources Advisor on (09) 977 5233.

The preferred applicants will be subject to employment screening by Simpson Grierson or by their external third party provider.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid work permit.

Agency notice: Please be advised that we work with preferred suppliers and will not be accepting unsolicited applications from other agencies.

Enquiries

For further information for Auckland and Wellington roles please contact:

Madeline Bower for legal enquiries
Human Resources Manager
Telephone
+64 9 977 5242 

Trudy Wright for non-legal/business services enquiries
Human Resources Manager
Telephone
+64 9 977 5262