The 2025 listing of leading New Zealand Employment Lawyers details solicitors practising within the areas of employment and industrial relations matters matters across the New Zealand market who have been identified by clients and peers for their expertise and abilities in these areas.
Preeminent
Liz Coats, Bell Gully – Auckland
Susan Hornsby-Geluk, Dundas Street Employment Lawyers – Wellington
Phillipa Muir, Simpson Grierson – Auckland
Gillian Service, MinterEllison Rudd Watts – Auckland
Leading
Peter Chemis, Buddle Findlay – Wellington
Peter Cranney, Oakley Moran – Wellington
Kylie Dunn, Smith Dunn – Auckland
David France, Kiely Thompson Caisley – Auckland
Hamish Kynaston, Buddle Findlay – Wellington
Stephen Langton, LangtonHudson – Auckland
Blair Scotland, Dundas Street Employment Lawyers – Wellington
Bridget Smith, Smith Dunn – Auckland
Penny Swarbrick, SBM Legal – Auckland
Recommended
Emma Butcher, BE Employment Law – Auckland
Andrew Caisley, Kiely Thompson Caisley – Auckland
Sherridan Cook, Buddle Findlay – Auckland
Daniel Erickson, Tompkins Wake – Auckland
Angela Evans, BE Employment Law – Auckland
June Hardacre, MinterEllisonRuddWatts – Auckland
Peter Kiely, Kiely Thompson Caisley – Auckland
Jessie Lapthorne, Duncan Cotterill – Auckland
Simon Lapthorne, Kiely Thompson Caisley – Auckland
Fiona McMillan, Lane Neave – Auckland
Charlotte Parkhill, Dentons – Auckland
Rebecca Rendle, Simpson Grierson – Auckland
Megan Richards, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Jim Roberts, Hesketh Henry – Auckland
Ronelle Tompkinson, LangtonHudson, Auckland
Rosemary Wooders, Bell Gully – Auckland