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· LawTalk 852 · 10 October 2014
ON THE MOVE Julia Whitehead has joined DAC Beachcroft as a solicitor in the Auckland office. Before this move, Julia advised Lloyd’s of London for three years on a range of insurance issues. Julia Whitehead Julia specialises in commercial litigation and insurance matters. She works primarily with insurers and insureds on professional indemnity issues and has acted for engineers, architects and barristers. She has also provided general representation services for professional bodies and has acted on contract and commercial disputes. In addition to her insurance focus Julia has experience with building law, acting on a number of weathertight homes cases and building disputes. James McDougall has joined DAC Beachcroft as a solicitor in the Wellington office. James has over three years’ litigation experience and has been involved in complex professional negligence claims, insurance litigation (including maritime and James McDougall earthquake claims), contractual disputes, general commercial litigation and leaky building claims. Annette Sykes has become a consultant to Kathy Ertel & Co. Ms Sykes has over 30 years’ legal experience and specialises in Treaty of Waitangi, Māori and human Annette Sykes rights jurisdictions. Ms Sykes will be based in the firm’s newly established Rotorua office.
Deborah Kessell-Haak
Claire McInnes
Baldwins Intellectual Property has promoted six staff, one to senior associate and five to associate. Deborah Kessell-Haak is the new senior associate, based in Wellington.
Essentially law is the closest we get to applying philosophy. Its fundamental role is to look at how we treat people and what we expect people to be and do as human beings. There is a lot of morality in law. It underpins how we should live as humans by constantly asking the question ‘what do we value?’ — Professor Charles Rickett, the new Dean of AUT University’s Law School.
Kate Giddens
Thomas Huthwaite
Deborah specialises in trade marks and works with local and international clients including the cosmetics, entertainment, clothing, and food and beverage industries. The five new Vanessa Huppert associates are Claire McInnes, Kate Giddens, Thomas Huthwaite and Vanessa Huppert, who are based in Wellington, and Dr Katherine Hebditch, who is based in Auckland. Claire works mainly in patDr Katherine Hebditch ents, but also advises on trade marks and designs. Kate is a trade mark and branding specialist who advises on all aspects of trade mark and related intellectual property law. Thomas is a barrister and solicitor specialising in all areas of intellectual property litigation, dispute resolution and commercialisation. Vanessa advises on trade mark availability, infringement issues, copyright, passing off and the Fair Trading Act. Katherine specialises in drafting patent specifications, prosecuting applications, patent oppositions and advising on patentability issues. Continued on page 12 ...