New Zealand Law Awards
The New Zealand Law Awards is the only event in New Zealand that celebrates and rewards outstanding examples of excellence in client service by law firms, barristers and in-house legal teams as judged by their clients, rather than relying upon a subjectively appointed panel of judges (thereby providing lawyers with the best possible feedback).
The New Zealand Law AwardsTM is organised by the NZLawyer magazine, a fortnightly independent news magazine for the New Zealand legal profession that is published by LexisNexis. The New Zealand Law Awards was first introduced in 2005 and is hosted by NZLawyer in partnership with its awards partners; the Corporate Lawyers Association of New Zealand (CLANZ), the National Business Review (NBR) and NZLawyer’s sister publication in Australia, the Lawyers Weekly.
The idea for the New Zealand Law AwardsTM came from Lawyers Weekly’s initiative in organising the annual Fuji Xerox Australian Law Awards over a number of years.
In 2005, the New Zealand version of the “Law Awards” splashed onto the legal scene causing a mixture of excitement and controversy amongst members of the New Zealand legal profession and its clients.
Fortunately, despite the controversy, the awards voting process attracted thousands and thousands of clients drawn from within the corporate, public and private sector across New Zealand and that has continued to be the case to date. The experience over the past three years indicates there is strong support amongst law firms and their clients for the continuation of the awards on the annual legal profession’s calendar.
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For more information about the New Zealand 2007 Law Awards, please visit the website: http://www.lawawards.co.nz
Or contact:
- Kate Woodd, Project Manager on 09 368 9503
- Nicola McCord, Event Manager on 09 368 9505
- Gareth Jones, Sponsorship Manager, NZLawyer on 09 368 9513
- Darise Ogden, Managing Editor, NZLawyer on 09 368 9504
- Miranda Reid, Law Awards Executive on 09 368 9529