Our Profession · Our People ON THE MOVE Ben Davie has been made a partner of Keesing McLeod in Lower Hutt. He has been with the firm since joining as a new graduate. Ben’s specialties include Ben Davie residential and commercial conveyancing, business sales and acquisitions, commercial leasing, trusts, asset protection and estate planning. Olivia Wensley has joined the litigation team at Mactodd Lawyers. Olivia’s previous litigation experience includes specialising in torts, leaky building litigation and profesOlivia Wensley sional indemnity insurance at two civil litigation firms in New Zealand. Before moving to Queenstown, Olivia worked as an in-house lawyer in Singapore for an international bank, specialising in investment banking, derivatives and commodities trading. At Mactodd Olivia will be specialising in civil and criminal litigation. Emma Williams has been promoted to solicitor advising on commercial, property and resource management matters at Mactodd Lawyers. Emma joined Mactodd in Emma Williams February 2014 having spent three years with the local council as a town planner followed by working and travelling in Europe. John Carter has left Carter Kirkland Morrison, now KMO Limited, and has set up in practice on his own account as a barrister and solicitor. John is a Fellow of AMINZ. He is John Carter on both the mediation
and arbitration panels and intends to specialise in this area of work. Brooke Courtney has joined Sharp Tudhope in the Bay of Plenty as an associate. A property law specialist, Brooke previously worked at a Hamilton law firm for seven years, and in London where she developed a legal database for New Zealand lawyers and managed a charitable law centre. As well as practising property law, she also has a special interest in trust law. Gemma Bodle has joined Brown Partners as a lawyer in the real property team. Before moving to Brown Partners, Gemma was working in an in-house team in Sydney and spent Gemma Bodle four years at a large Waikato law firm with their property team.
Theresa Gattung speaking at the recent NZLS CLE Ltd conference Women, the Law – and the Corner Office. She spoke on her experiences as CEO of Telecom, the road she took to becoming a CEO and some of what she is involved in now.
Welcome to the profession The New Zealand Law Society welcomes the following recently admitted lawyers to the profession Hamilton
Robert Frederick Bennett Tara Nicola Carr Steve Chan Chui Tamihana James Coxhead Holly Fagan Te-Rata Frazer-Rata Fiona Jane Jamieson Katie Marie Kendrick Priya Murthi Mark Cecil Nicholson Gemma Mary Smith Samantha Ellen Smith Salavalasi Tupuola Rachel Van Rossen Sarah Margaret Welch
Christchurch
Michael John Copeland Marianne Joan Dutkiewicz Nicole Jade Evens
Belinda Kaye Ferguson Nadja Anna Grabner-Thornley Jaxon James Grieve Julie Corrin Hands David Robert Hills Erin Victoria Jackson Emma Susan Kay Louise Mary Laming Angela Joy Lee Alice Jeanne Liddell Yvonne Leeanne McCallum Ashleigh Barbara Mulholland Aileen Marie Odgers Louise Erica Claire Painter Heidi Jane Quigley Phillips Elizabeth Roshni Prasad Amber Brooke Richards Jamie Alice Robinson Thomas Graham Smedley Matthew Josiah Smit
Renee Anthony Spoors Kathryn Angela Strachan Victoria Jayne Tranter Anna Georgina Mary Whalan Charles Peter Edward Whatman Eric Yu
Auckland
In LawTalk issue 854, four peoples’ names were omitted from the list of lawyers recently admitted in Auckland. LawTalk apologies for this. The four lawyers admitted in Auckland whose names were not listed are: Sarah Xing Tye Yen Rita Hoi Ying Yip ReneeMarie Sokwoo Yoon Jason Alexander Zwi
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