- LITIGATION
- AUCKLAND
15 May 2023
Bell Gully is looking for Judges Clerks to join us as year three lawyers commencing 2024. Bell Gully is independently recognised as New Zealand’s leading commercial law firm, opening up a world of career opportunities working with a range of clients including iconic New Zealand brands, iwi, innovative start-ups, leading multinationals, global investment banks, financial institutions and government agencies. We aim for excellence and our people are the foundation for our continued success.
About the role
Bell Gully’s commercial litigation practice is New Zealand’s largest. We have been independently recognised as New Zealand’s top practice, including winning Benchmark Litigation's New Zealand Litigation Firm of the Year award in 2021 and 2022, and both Chambers Asia Pacific and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific rank us in the top tier, Band 1, for litigation.
We are known for our depth of experience, strong advocacy skills, and strategic commercial judgement, and we continue to work on cutting-edge and precedent-setting cases for our clients.
We are looking for Judges Clerks finishing at the end of 2023 to join our Litigation department as third year lawyers in 2024, for both our Auckland and Wellington office.
You will be involved in some of New Zealand’s most complex and significant commercial and public law litigation, which will involve substantial amount of Court work, involvement in arbitrations and other dispute processes, including mediations and negotiations, engagement with regulators and law enforcement authorities and advisory work.
Culture and benefits
In addition to a strong team culture, we offer a range of benefits and initiatives to help our people maintain a healthy and enjoyable lifestyle. This includes:
We continuously work hard to ensure our workplace is inclusive, and trust that different experiences, perspectives, and values work together to achieve a better outcome. As such, this position is open to anyone with the qualifying skill set.
About the role
Bell Gully’s commercial litigation practice is New Zealand’s largest. We have been independently recognised as New Zealand’s top practice, including winning Benchmark Litigation's New Zealand Litigation Firm of the Year award in 2021 and 2022, and both Chambers Asia Pacific and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific rank us in the top tier, Band 1, for litigation.
We are known for our depth of experience, strong advocacy skills, and strategic commercial judgement, and we continue to work on cutting-edge and precedent-setting cases for our clients.
We are looking for Judges Clerks finishing at the end of 2023 to join our Litigation department as third year lawyers in 2024, for both our Auckland and Wellington office.
You will be involved in some of New Zealand’s most complex and significant commercial and public law litigation, which will involve substantial amount of Court work, involvement in arbitrations and other dispute processes, including mediations and negotiations, engagement with regulators and law enforcement authorities and advisory work.
Culture and benefits
In addition to a strong team culture, we offer a range of benefits and initiatives to help our people maintain a healthy and enjoyable lifestyle. This includes:
- a working from home policy,
- professional development opportunities,
- community support programmes,
- a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme,
- an annual subsidy for health insurance and a range of wellbeing activities,
- sports teams, an annual ball, regular team events and department weekends away.
We continuously work hard to ensure our workplace is inclusive, and trust that different experiences, perspectives, and values work together to achieve a better outcome. As such, this position is open to anyone with the qualifying skill set.
