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2016The New Zealand Law Students' Careers Guide The New Zealand 201Law Students’6 Careers Guide Sponsored by the Auckland Law School NEW ZEALAND’S LARGEST LAW SCHOOL IS PROUD TO SPONSOR THE NEW ZEALAND LAW STUDENTS’ CAREERS GUIDE The Auckland Law School: • Is ranked the best law school in New Zealand and one of the best law schools in the world* • Offers the largest range of undergraduate courses • Has the highest entry standards for second year law meaning our graduates are highly sought after • Has outstanding facilities including the Davis Law Library, New Zealand’s leading legal research library • Is situated in the heart of the legal precinct in the centre of New Zealand’s largest city • Offers an extensive study abroad programme with 20% of our students spending a semester overseas • Provides a wealth of opportunities for students to participate in national and international competitions, community placements and the Equal Justice Project • Has won the national mooting championships eight of the last nine years • Has very active and supportive Māori and Pacific law student societies and programmes FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: www.law.auckland.ac.nz Phone: 0800 61 62 63 Email: [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/akllawschool II *QS World University Rankings in Law, 2015 (ranked 33rd in the world) UOA922FA3 Careers Guide full-page LLB ad.indd 1 29/02/16 11:41 AM NEW ZEALAND’S LARGEST LAW SCHOOL IS PROUD TO SPONSOR THE NEW ZEALAND LAW STUDENTS’ CAREERS GUIDE The Auckland Law School: • Is ranked the best law school in New Zealand and one of the best law schools in the world* • Offers the largest range of undergraduate courses Letter from the Editor • Has the highest entry standards for second year law meaning our graduates are highly sought after • Has outstanding facilities including the Davis Law Library, My name is Ella Maiden and I’ve had the pleasure of editing the New Zealand’s leading legal research library second edition of The New Zealand Law Students’ Careers Guide. • Is situated in the heart of the legal precinct in the centre My aim this summer was to make the guide more personable of New Zealand’s largest city to students, with more profiles and summer clerk interviews so that you can actually get an idea as to what it is like to work at • Offers an extensive study abroad programme with a certain firm. I also wanted to focus on applying for jobs, as 20% of our students spending a semester overseas this is the most important factor for securing that clerkship or graduate job. • Provides a wealth of opportunities for students to I would like to thank Nick Fenton and Michael Smol, the 2015 participate in national and international competitions, editors, for the valuable contribution they made towards this community placements and the Equal Justice Project guide. My job was a lot easier this year as they had written • Has won the national mooting championships eight the bulk of this guide in 2015 and, luckily for me, I only had to of the last nine years update it. I would also like to thank all the firms and organisa- tions that got in contact so quickly. A final big thank you to all • Has very active and supportive Māori and Pacific the summer clerks and graduates who answered my questions, law student societies and programmes your input has been invaluable! Ella Maiden, Editor. It’s also awesome to see the growth of support from other New Zealand Universities. I believe this guide is beneficial to all New Zealand law students, and so I look forward to this becoming a more collaborative guide in the future. Good luck for all that lies ahead of you. As I’ve learnt from FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: writing this guide, there are so many different opportunities available in the law, so go get ‘em! www.law.auckland.ac.nz Ella Phone: 0800 61 62 63 Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: Although every reasonable effort has been made to ensure accuracy, the information in this document is provided as a Facebook: www.facebook.com/akllawschool general guide only for students and is subject to alteration. *QS World University Rankings in Law, 2015 (ranked 33rd in the world) UOA922FA3 Careers Guide full-page LLB ad.indd 1 29/02/16 11:41 AM Message from the Dean of the Auckland Law School: Andrew Stockley The Auckland Law School is delighted to be able to support The New Zealand Law Students’ Careers Guide. Students who graduate with a law degree are prized by employers for their ability to research, write, analyse and reason. They consequently end up in all sorts of careers. The heads of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and District Court are all Auckland Law School graduates, as are many other judges, QCs, and other prominent members of the legal profession. We have alumni working in law firms throughout New Zealand and in cities as diverse as London, New York, Sydney, Hong Kong and Dubai. Our graduates include the chief executives of the Virgin Group and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Ministers of the Crown, and the heads of major charitable organisations. Some have even become law professors and legal academics! Only half our graduates work in the legal profession and the Professor Andrew Stockley, Dean of Law, University of Auckland. judiciary. Just as many work in business, government, and an enormous variety of other fields. Law affects all areas of society meaning that it is just as possible to work in sport, entertain- ment or security-related fields as it is in banking, regulation and policy advice. New Zealand law graduates are as highly regarded internationally as they are domestically and good numbers end up working for law firms, businesses, and international agencies, courts and tribunals around the world. I would like to commend Ella Maiden for all her hard work in bringing this Careers Guide together. It provides a marvellous introduction to the career options available to New Zealand law students, as well as how to apply for internships and job opportunities. Table of Contents Starting Your Career.....................................................2 The Public Sector ..........................................................48 What area of law are you interested in? .......................3 The Government Legal Network (GLN) .........................49 Law and your Mental Health ..........................................4 Una Jagose – Solicitor-General ...........................................................52 Becoming a Lawyer in NZ ................................................5 Mike Heron Practicing Overseas ...........................................................7 – QC and Former Solicitor-General .................................53 Australia ........................................................................7 Public Defence Service .....................................................54 The New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) ............................56 United Kingdom ..........................................................7 The Law Commission .......................................................57 United States of America............................................8 Hong Kong ...................................................................8 Social Justice .................................................................58 Amnesty International ....................................................59 Academia .........................................................................9 Citizens Advice Bureau ....................................................60 Marcus Roberts: Lecturer ...............................................10 Community Law ...............................................................61 Postgraduate Study ........................................................11 Vernon Tava – Solicitor, Auckland Community Law Centre ...............62 Studying overseas – Kingi Snelgar: Harvard University................................15 JustSpeak .........................................................................63 Admissions ....................................................................16 Courts & Alternative Dispute Resolution ..............64 Applications with Jan Blair ............................................17 Judges’ Clerkships Applications ....................................65 Caitlin Hollings CV ....................................................................................18 – Judges’ Clerk .................................................................66 Cover Letter ....................................................................20 Justice Susan Thomas The Interview .................................................................21 – Auckland High Court ....................................................67 Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of NZ...................69 Law Firms .......................................................................22 Resolution Institute – LEADR & IAMA ............................70 Summer Clerkships .........................................................23 In-house Legal Teams & Corporate Advisories .......71 Anderson Lloyd ................................................................24 In-house Lawyers Association NZ (ILANZ) ......................72 Bell Gully...........................................................................26 Cristina Billett Buddle Findlay .................................................................28 – Counsel for NZ Superannuation ..................................73 Chapman Tripp ................................................................30 Tom Lane Duncan Cotterill
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