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I wondered if I’d regret But that’s far from the case for former Napier lawyer Stu Webster it if I didn’t take this opportunity and the who three years ago moved to the United States to become an answer was a resounding ‘Yes’,” he says. ‘Attorney at Law’. It would be fair to say Stu has led and continues to live a life A $1.5 billion class action less ordinary but that’s a style he is comfortable with. Twenty- The differences in the United States are four years as a law firm partner in New Zealand only whetted far from subtle. The country has about 1.5 his appetite for a move to Los Angeles where he had to sit the million practising lawyers, whereas New gruelling bar exam, alongside people much younger than him Zealand has only 13,000. who had already studied American law.