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CANTERBURY WESTLAND
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Effective networking A seminar on Effective Networking – making the most of every opportunity will be held for Canterbury-Westland branch junior practitioners on 15 August. Head of coaching and development at ASB Bank, Laurie Sharp, is the guest presenter. Mr Sharp has 34 years’ banking experience. His current role at ASB is working on professional skills to help make a difference to customers’ banking experience.
Auckland August events The Auckland branch has a variety of events planned for August. All members are invited to the annual members’ Quiz Night, which has an Olympic Twist this year, a deviation from the 2011 rugby theme. The event will be held on 1 August from 6:30pm at Kensington Swan. Mayor Len Brown will give lawyers insight into the council’s 10-year plan in the first of the Auckland branch series Our City, Our Future on 15 August at the DLA Phillips Fox Tower.
Simon Power will be the guest speaker at the first official combined young accountants and young lawyers event on 9 August at Westpac on Takutai Square, Britomart. Chief executive of BurgerFuel Worldwide, Josef Roberts, will speak to Auckland Young Lawyers about growing a worldwide brand on 16 August at Kensington Swan. For more information on these events and more go to http://my.lawsociety. org.nz/branches/auckland/events or contact the Auckland branch events coordinator frances.levy@lawsociety. org.nz.
He focuses primarily on soft skills including: coaching and leadership, presentation and communication skills, negotiating, networking, changing business trends and business development.
AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND LAW SOCIETY NZLS EST 1869
Auckland Young Lawyers promote the profession Auckland Young Lawyers Committee members gave insight into a career as a lawyer to nearly 200 Māori and Pacific youth last month. Sunil Nathu of Bell Gully and Sam Beswick of Meredith Connell presented four 25-minute interactive workshops on a career in the law at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints Education Resource Services – Careers Evening held at the Telstra Clear Stadium, Manukau. Over 500 young people from South Auckland aged 13 to 20 attended the event. Mr Nathu and Mr Beswick fielded questions and talked about their careers to date, the legal profession, the qualifications required, training needed, career development, remuneration benefits and what to study at school in order to get into law.
At the launch of the new GLNO website, front row (from left): Krishneel Prasad, Nid Satjipanon, Nader Luthera, Birsha Ohdedar, Ciaron Murnane, Toko Metua. Back row (from left): Charlene Iefata, Jenni Toma, Neil Shaw, Shaista Shameem, Mehzabeen Aziz.
Grey Lynn Neighbourhood Law Office website launch Information on the Grey Lynn Neighbourhood Law Office (GLNLO) is now available online. The Community Law Centre’s website launch was celebrated at a private function at Bell Gully’s Auckland premises last month. GLNLO chairperson Jacqueline Lethbridge says: “the GLNLO website launch is a major milestone in the history of GLNLO as a community law centre, since it opened its doors in June 1977.”
The website contains information about free legal advice services offered, legal clinics and ongoing education and seminars on legal topic areas of interest and this information is now easily accessible online via the events calendar on our website,” says Nader Luthera, GLNLO’s project and communications adviser. Learn more about GLNLO by visiting their website www.glnlo.org. LT
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