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People Manaia Paki King has been recently appointed to the board of the JR McKenzie Trust for a five-year team as the New Zealand Law Society’s representative. An Aucklandbased public sector lawyer who specialises in public health law, Manaia is currently a national manager with the National Health Board, Ministry of Health. After nine years serving as a director of The Lawlink Group Ltd, Warwick Deuchrass has retired from the board and as chairman of Lawlink. The new chairman is Erich Bachmann, managErich Bachmann ing partner at Hesketh Henry. Erich has been a director on the Lawlink board since 2007. Kerry O’Donnell from Anderson Lloyd, Queenstown joins the Lawlink board from April 2013. Lawlink is an association of 18 law Kerry O’Donnell firms throughout New Zealand, and these changes were announced at the recent conference in Tauranga. Auckland lawyer Grant Kemble has been appointed a director of the Airways Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. Mr Kemble is a partner of Russell McVeagh. Wellington lawyer David Patterson has been reappointed a director of Solid Energy New Zealand Ltd. Mr Patterson is a consultant with Chapman Tripp. Five members have been reappointed and one new member appointed to the Real Estate Agents Authority. New Plymouth barrister John Auld is one of the reappointed members. The others are Barrie Barnes of Auckland, Denise Bovaird of Auckland, Joan Harnett-Kindley of Wanaka and David Russell of Wellington. The new appointee is Aaron Bhatnagar of Auckland.
On the Move Maree Cowan has been made a partner of Parker Cowan Lawyers, formerly Michael E Parker. Maree joined the firm in October 2009. With broad civil and commercial litigation experience, she specialises in insurance law-based litigation acting primarily for insurers and their insureds, with particular emphasis on professional indemnity cases. Malcolm Dreaneen has joined Brookfields Lawyers. Based at the firm’s Manukau office, Malcolm is part of Brookfields’ private client advisory group. His primary focus is on providing advice and representation on all aspects of family and relationship law. Edwin Lim has been appointed a partner of Hudson Gavin Martin, a boutique
Welcome to the profession The New Zealand Law Society welcomes the following recently admitted lawyers to the profession.
technology and IP law firm. Edwin joined the firm in April 2010 as a senior associate. He will continue to advise clients (both large and small) on technology, media, telecommunicaEdwin Lim tions and intellectual property matters. Before joining Hudson Gavin Martin, Edwin worked for four years at Clyde & Co in Dubai, advising on technology and telecommunications transactions in the Middle East. Tim Oldfield has joined Swarbrick Beck Mackinnon as senior associate. Tim has specialised in employment law in New Zealand for his entire legal career. He has a particular specialty in industrial relations. Before joining Swarbrick Beck Mackinnon, Tim was a legal officer for the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota Inc.
Hamilton
Andrew Mark Boot Krista Rose Fitzpatrick Ashvinder Kaur Angela Lorraine McLeish Chloe Ann Melville James Robert Dela Rue Namita Singh Jonathan Brian Shaw Sian Marama Thorn Sarah Louise Tomlinson Cliveford Zeke
Dunedin
Richard Henry Kahn Elspeth Mary Knewstubb Alice Hope O’Connell Emma Jane O’Connell Alice Victoria Sanders Christopher Francis Timbs Stephen James Thomson Thomas Eion Willis Lina Kristina Worthing
Invercargill
Ashleigh Maree Nelson Philippa Kate Walker
Isabella Charlotte Broadbent Gracey Ann Campbell Rebecca Karin Ensor Catherine Elizabeth May Jones
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