The Best Employment
Lawyers In Hamilton

DTI Lawyers Limited

At DTI Lawyers, people are at the heart of all we do – our people, our clients, our community. Our team apply their specialist legal knowledge to help you to achieve the things that are important to you – whether a problem solved, or an opportunity we help you make the most of.

We appreciate that relationships are developed over time and through mutual respect and trust. As a client, we take your business personally. We will take the time to get to know and understand you and your business and the outcomes you’re looking for. Then we will work out the best way to get there.

DTI Lawyers is the right firm for those who are looking for lawyers who:

– Will effectively identify your needs
– Know the law and are pragmatic in problem solving
– Are accessible
– Give clear accurate advice in a manner that you understand
– Are down to earth, friendly and empathetic
– Provide value
– Take the initiative.

Relationships are at the heart of what we do – we are here for our team, our clients, our business partners – and their important people.

At DTI Lawyers, we help you get through significant times in life; from a first home or business purchase to assisting with the death of a loved one.

We are a dedicated team of lawyers based in Hamilton and Raglan, with clients throughout Waikato, Waipa, and New Zealand. We are renowned for our specialist expertise and commercial acumen. We offer you a trusted partner in your legal matters.

We work collaboratively with you to know and understand you, your business and your desired outcomes. Our specialist lawyers then recommend the best way to get there.

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Edwards Sluiters Employment Lawyers

As specialist employment lawyers, we offer our clients expert employment advice and HR support. We ensure that you receive quality representation in your best interest from a highly experienced and supportive employment law team.

Edwards Sluiters – Employment Lawyers acts for both employers and employees. Our focus is to assist our clients in achieving the best possible outcome by providing pragmatic and practical advice in all aspects of employment law.

We pride ourselves on being responsive and accessible to our clients and delivering solutions-based HR advice that is tailored to our clients’ needs. We have offices located in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, and Hawkes Bay.

We are a highly collaborative team of employment lawyers and can assist clients throughout New Zealand. When you call us, you speak to an employment attorney immediately.

At Edwards Sluiters, we assist both employers and employees with a broad range of employment advice, including: employment agreements, business restructuring and redundancy law, unjustified dismissal, personal grievances, workplace mediations, litigation and dispute resolution, collective bargaining, restraints of trade or breach of confidentiality and human rights issues.

Legal compliance is another core service we offer. There is a wide range of legislation that employers must be aware of, including, but not limited to:

– Employment Relations Act 2000
– Holidays Act 2003
– Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
– Human Rights Act 1993
– Privacy Act 2020
– Accident Compensation Act 2001

Our advantage is our specialisation, and we are familiar with all aspects of employment law. Our team has extensive experience and are employment law specialists. You can be confident that we are ahead of the constantly changing legal landscape, from case law to legislation and policies.

The team at Edwards Sluiters – Employment Lawyers are committed to providing high quality and comprehensive legal advice, with an aim to deliver the best solutions and successful outcomes for our clients.

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Rose Alchin & Associates

We understand the importance of fair, lawful, and respectful employment relationships as being the foundation for any business. Getting these foundations right at the beginning of an employment relationship is essential to avoid potential problems in the future for both Employers and Employees.

We appreciate the delicate and sometimes complicated roads that employers must navigate to uphold their obligations as an employer. Keeping their employee relationships lawful whilst also protecting their businesses that they have worked hard to build can be a difficult balancing act. We are here to help to ensure our clients have everything in place to keep things running smoothly.

Equally, all employees in New Zealand, whether part-time, full-time, casual or fixed-term, have rights that must be up-held by their employers. Ensuring employees have received fair treatment from their employers is paramount to us. We can help employees in any industry determine if their employee rights have been meet by their employer.

Our experienced team are dedicated to settling our clients’ matters swiftly and with as little disruption to their day-to-day work as possible. We are determined to solve workplace conflicts, striving for early resolution and optimal outcomes for all our clients.

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McLuskie Dalziel Lawyers

McLuskie Dalziel Lawyers is a specialist employment law firm, comprising of a team of true experts and is the product of Karina and Fiona who have over 24 years’ combined experience in employment law.
Before starting their own firm, Karina and Fiona worked together for a number of years in a leading large New Zealand Law Firm.

McLuskie Dalziel Lawyers is committed to providing pragmatic advice, maintaining trust, and working to get the best solution for its clients. We work with not only employers and employees but also support HR professionals in their roles.

We will actively work with you to understand your needs and the outcomes you hope to achieve. We will consider your options and work with you to develop a strategy that best suits you or your business.

With over 24 years’ of combined experience in employment law, we have merged forces to create a specialist employment offering in the Waikato and beyond.

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Employment Relations Law Ltd

Susan-Jane Davies is a specialist employment lawyer and advises clients in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty.

Meet Susan-Jane Davies, lawyer and Director of Employment Relations Law Limited trading as ERLAW.

I draw on my considerable experience as an employment lawyer and trusted advisor for a wide range of businesses, not for profits and employees. You can have confidence I will be in your corner, applying my expertise and credibility to manage your employment law issues effectively. I offer the full range of advice and representationon employment law issues – from legal compliance through to best practice in employment processes.

I provide a flexible approach to problem-solving but am also a tenacious advocate in dispute resolution from negotiated settlements through to mediation, the Employment Relations Authority and the Employment Court.

I bring you a customer-focused approach and strive to find you solutions which suit your individual needs and circumstances.

I recognize that no two workplaces are the same. High performing employment relationships need to be based on a sound platform of employment agreements and workplace policies which are kept up-to-date and applied consistently, fairly and in good faith.

I can help you with:

– Preparation and review of employment agreements and workplace policies
– Preparation and review of executive bonuses and commission schemes
– Resolving personal grievances and legal disputes
– Restructuring and redundancy
– Performance management
– Disciplinary processes and suspensions
– Dismissals
– Workplace bullying and discrimination allegations and investigations
– Wages claims
– Holidays Act obligations and entitlements
– Enforcement of restraints of trade confidentiality and intellectual property obligations
– Employment obligations in business sales, outsourcing and subcontracting
– Labour Inspector investigations and prosecutions on minimum standards and entitlements
– Advocacy and dispute resolution including at mediation, Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court

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Harkness Henry

We believe Respect is something that can only be earned and we hope we have well and truly achieved that, since our early beginnings in 1875. We never take it for granted, continually improving and working hard to maintain our reputation.

We’re renowned for excellence, our attention to detail, and our priority on hiring the very best people. But our focus on client relationships is what really sets us apart – real people, real care, real results.

We offer a comprehensive commercial and private legal service, and our clients keep coming back to us because of that relationship – trust and honesty go a long way. Our aim is to be open, accurate, and one-step-ahead in everything we do, to achieve the very best for you, every time.

Harkness Henry has a proud history of providing excellent relationships and high quality legal advice, since 1875.
When the practices of the late Phillip Harkness and Clive Henry merged in 1945, we took on the firm’s current name. From our early beginnings in Hamilton, we added conveniently located offices in Paeroa (since 1978) and more recently in Cambridge.

Today, Harkness Henry has become one of New Zealand’s best known mid-sized law firms and a great place to build a career in law.

– Former Governor General, Justice Dame Silvia Cartwright, was a partner before her appointment to the bench.

– Her successor in the firm was the Hon. Justice Christine Grice, a judge of the High Court of New Zealand. Christine is a past president and also Executive Director of the New Zealand Law Society.

– Members of our team have consistently been elected to Waikato/Bay of Plenty and New Zealand Law Society committees.
Remarkable women have featured across our proud history and they continue to be a proud feature of our team today. You can find out more about our people here.

We enjoy an exceptional reputation throughout New Zealand, here at Harkness Henry, because of our team’s ability to meet our client’s legal needs with prompt, pragmatic and specialist advice.

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Gurnell Harrison Stanley Law

Gurnell Harrison Stanley provides legal advice to a wide range of business, rural, not-for-profit, trust and individual clients throughout New Zealand. Based in Hamilton, our firm specialises in business and property law. We bring extensive experience and professionalism to every file and customise our support to your individual needs and concerns.

Our lawyers and staff have collective experience of over eight decades in business and property law. We work with clients who want a one-on-one relationship with their lawyer. We will take the time to get to know and understand you and your needs and the outcomes you’re after. We’ll then work with you and your advisers to find the best way to get there. It’s this entrepreneurial approach to our work that gives us our commercial edge.

Whether you’re starting, growing, operating and selling your business, having certainty in the world of business and commerce is key.

Whether you’re a developer, an investor or a home owner, property is one of the surest ways to create and retain wealth – if you’re well advised.

We provide cost-effective legal advice and pragmatic solutions to both employers and employees in all employment matters.

Trusts continue to be a popular way of protecting and managing assets. If you’re contemplating a trust, or if you already have one, we provide sound legal advice to ensure your trust affords your assets the protection intended.

Protecting what you have while you’re alive and well is important. Equally important is what happens to your affairs in the event that you can’t make decisions, and ultimately what happens when you pass away.

If you’re starting a new relationship, contemplating separation or have already separated, we can provide you with legal advice on all your relationship property matters.

Losing a loved one can be a very stressful and emotional time. We aim to alleviae that stress by assisting with your loved one’s legal affairs, including obtaining probate, smoothly, quickly and with empathy.

Whether you have a large scale property venture, rural subdivision or simply wish to subdivide off the back section, we can provide you with comprehensive legal advice and assistance to achieve the best result.

Starting and running a community organisation can be legally complex. Questions surrounding structure, incorporation, registration, changing of officers, member disputes, and winding up all require sound advice.

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Julie Hardaker Lawyers

Julie has practiced law for over 25 years and is a specialist in employment law, relationship property and public law.
In addition to her legal practice, Julie is a governance professional and holds roles in government, private and community sectors.
​She is recognised as a skilled negotiator and advocate who takes a pragmatic and commercial approach to her work.

​Julie has first class honours degrees in law and Masters in business management, and was the top graduating student in her law degree at the University of Waikato. She was a partner for many years in long established Hamilton law firm McCaw Lewis and in 2017 was a Principal in leading New Zealand public law and employment law firm Chen Palmer.

From 2010 – 2016, Julie served two terms as Mayor of Hamilton.

Julie provides advice in all aspects of employment law and is a specialist in independent investigations. She is regularly engaged to conduct employment and workplace investigations and reviews. She is an expert in local government issues, assisting councils with legal and governance advice, oversight of CEO performance, and conducting independent Code of Conduct investigations and reviews.

Julie practices in the area of relationship property and advises clients about dividing property and finances following separation, separation agreements and Family Court proceedings. Julie assists clients in relationships with contracting our/pre-nuptial agreements.

Julie has been a finalist in the New Zealand Law Awards Employment Team of the year and in 2016 she was one of the first recipients of the Order of Te Arikinui Queen Te Atairangikaahu (Waikato Tainui) for services to Maori. She is a regular presenter at conferences on legal issues, women, leadership and governance.

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Lewis Lawyers

A strong legacy behind us comes with an equally strong sense of responsibility in front of us. This responsibility starts first within the firm and flows out towards clients and the wider community Lewis Lawyers Cambridge and Hamilton serve. We exist and thrive because of our people, clients, and the community. The privilege of being your firm of choice is taken seriously, yet our approach is to listen, understand, and act with empathy.

We are a values-based law firm. Our core values are important to us and are at the heart of the way we interact with each other as a cohesive team and with our clients. These values explain who we are and what we are about. They reflect our ambition to make a difference to the people we work with and the clients we represent.

Established in 1906, Lewis Lawyers Cambridge and Hamilton is built on more than 100 years of service to the community.

We continue to actively support a diverse range of local and national organisations. Our affiliations with such organisations include running fundraising campaigns, voluntary and pro bono work, sponsorships, board roles and trusteeships.

Organisations we proudly support include the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, Cambridge Citizens Advice Bureau, Destination Cambridge, Hospice Waikato Foundation, Cambridge Life Skills, Rotary Club of Cambridge and Foster Hope Waikato, among many others.

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