Hello, lovely readersToday is the official commercial release day for The New Lawyer Companion: Essays on law, life and humanity. Amazing. You can currently buy the book online through the LexisNexis store, and very soon in other places as the roll out goes along. If you want to buy it from your local bookstore…

In part 2 of my conversation with Tayla and Adair, solicitors at Kāhui legal, we talk about issues and experiences in law that matter most to them. (To hear the part of the conversation about their study and career paths to date, go here.) They talk about their experiences of admission, of some misguided…

This episode is part 1 of a two part conversation I had with Tayla Afoa and Adair Houia-Ashwell, two solicitors who work for Kāhui Legal. They contributed a chapter to my book, and had so much wonderful insight and experience to share that I had to also do a podcast episode with them. In…

Well! I, together with some wonderful co-contributors, have written a book! A collection of essays gathered into five key topics written for the purpose of improving how it feels to go through law school and law or law-adjacent careers. The book exists because of a collaboration between The College of Law and LexisNexis and will…

There’s, uh, no getting around that title. This is an article I wrote for LawTalk’s collection of articles regarding Mental Health Awareness Week earlier this month. I wrote it the month before, during a period in which I was especially aware of my own mental health, shall we say, and was acutely annoyed at…

Hello listeners – in this episode I finally sat down with Damian Hanna, specialist legal recruiter, to discuss everything I could think of related to recruitment and finding a job. Damian studied law and has over 20 years’ experience in legal recruitment in New Zealand and it was lovely to pick his brain about the…