LEGAL ADVISORY FOR INDIVIDUALS & BUSINESSES
Helping to make sense of a legal maze.
A different way.

Tel: 123.456.7890
Kiwi lawyer turned California attorney. Sounds like the makings of a tv script if you throw in some ambiguous story lines, interesting twists and maybe a car chase through the Hollywood Hills.
After 24 years as a partner in a firm in New Zealand, I decided to flip the script and re-write what would have become a boring passage into retirement. I can’t play golf, which apparently is unusual for a lawyer.
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​​As a dual qualified attorney in New Zealand and the United States, I offer clients a unique perspective when it comes to cross-jurisdictional business law, litigation, employment and alternative dispute resolution. There’s no-one else in this space.
Mediation &
Arbitration
Alternative dispute resolution provides fast, efficient and confidential results to seemingly irresolvable and costly problems. With over 20 years experience in the law, 8 years in sole practice in California, and over 350 employment, consumer and business-related mediations, I have acquired the experience through diversity to resolve complex cases by using mediation or arbitration as an alternative to litigation

Past Projects
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Successfully extracted a group of New Zealand companies involved in an international IP dispute involving boat design
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Represented beneficiaries claiming entitlements in estates worth $25m, $8m and $5m respectively
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Acted for a US-based employer to plan and implement a major restructure of its New Zealand subsidiary
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Gave evidence in the New Zealand Family Court as a US immigration expert
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Represented, as lead counsel, one of four parties in the New Zealand Court of Appeal involving Maori trust lands worth $7 million and successfully retained and protected the land interests for the major beneficiaries
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Obtained a re-sealing of Probate in New Zealand for a US-based family to enable them to take title to a New Zealand waterfront property
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Successfully applied on behalf of New Zealand exporters for more than twenty E-1 Treaty Trader Visas
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Appointed as a New Zealand contract law specialist in Los Angeles County Superior Court