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Marlborough branch President re-elected
22 April 2016 · LawTalk 886
Law firm news Paul Clark has been joined in partnership by Karen Brown. The practice formerly known as Paul Clark Law has changed its name to Clark & Brown Lawyers. Bank account details, telephone, facsimile numbers and location remain unchanged.
Clarity comes to New Zealand
Simon Gaines was re-elected Clarity International, the worldwide association that promotes President of the New Zealand plain legal language, will hold its 2016 conference in New Zealand. Law Society’s Marlborough With the theme The Business of Clarity, the conference will be branch at the branch’s held in Wellington from 3 to 5 November. annual meeting on 24 March. Among the keynote speakers will be retired High Court of First elected Marlborough Australia Judge Hon Michael Kirby and New Zealand’s Solicitorbranch President in 2014, General Una Jagose. Both these speakers are well known in New Mr Gaines is a sole practiZealand legal circles. tioner. He works in the areas Another keynote speaker is Professor Emeritus Joseph Kimble, of resource management, who is well known for his expertise in legal writing. He taught Simon Gaines dispute resolution and civil legal writing for more than 30 years at WMU-Cooley Law School litigation. and has written two books – Lifting the Fog of Legalese and Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please. This month Mr Gaines became a co-director, together with Steve Riley, of Lundons Law Ltd, trading as Clarity has more than 650 members in 50 countries. It has two patrons, well-known New Zealand jurist Sir Kenneth Keith and Lundons. For the five years before that, he was principal of Gaines Law. Hon Kirby. For more information on the conference see www. Mr Gaines studied law at Victoria University. After clarity2016.org. working in Wellington and Blenheim, he worked in the United Kingdom for two years, then returned to New Zealand and completed his Masters in Management Studies, Resource Management, at Waikato University. Following 10 years working in non-legal roles for Government and private sector organisations in resource In the article entitled Top legal executives in LawTalk management, Mr Gaines returned to the law, and back 884 (24 March 2016, page 9) we announced that Denise to Marlborough. Roux was the top graduating student from the 2015 Mr Gaines is a founding member and trustee of Legal Executive Diploma examinations. Marlborough Community Mediation, a Charitable In that article, we misspelled the name of the firm Mrs Trust established in 2011 for the purpose of providRoux works for. The firm is Langdon & Co on Auckland’s ing mediation services to the Marlborough commuNorth Shore. nity. For the past four years he has also been the Law LawTalk apologises for this error. Society’s branch representative on the Board of Governance for Marlborough Community Law. He is married to Kate, and they have The Partners announce that from 31 March 2016 Peter McMenamin retired from the three children: Isabel, Victoria and Partnership of Tripe Matthews Feist, Barristers and Solicitors of Wellington, but Peter, as a Patrick. Consultant with Tripe Matthews Feist, will continue to practise in the areas of commercial At the annual meeting, Jacqueline law, property, trust and estates. Eves was re-elected the branch VicePresident. The new Marlborough branch David Murphy, Christine Batt, Julius Maskell and Beverley Roche will from 1 April 2016 continue as Partners at Tripe Matthews Feist. Council members are: Kent Arnott, Laura McFarlane, Laurie Murdoch, Hannah Please see our website www.tmf.co.nz for all contact details. Reuben, David Neild, and Sam Sullivan.
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