FT Innovative Lawyer Awards

This year, Simpson Grierson was the first New Zealand firm to be recognised by the influential Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers report. 

We were highly commended for our work on diversity issues and, in particular, the establishment of our pride network.

"A new diversity and inclusion policy and Pride Network to support LGBTI staff and family members has had an impact on the firm’s culture and the broader New Zealand legal profession."

We were also commended for launching our health and safety advisory business.

"The firm’s new multidisciplinary health and safety consultancy arm provides advisory services including governance and assurance reviews, management systems, leadership development and training."

The full report can be accessed here.

The FT Innovative Lawyers programme was established in Europe in 2006. Over the past decade it has covered legal industry innovation in 50 different countries from 400 law firms and 250 in-house legal departments.