Laura focuses on employment and health and safety law. She has over 20 years’ experience of helping large organisations with a broad range of issues in the UK and New Zealand.

Laura is particularly renowned for her influential work on diversity and inclusion, in particular social mobility initiatives.

She has a particular focus on employment restructuring and helps clients with a broad range of other issues including:

management of employee performance and misconduct
employment documentation and policy drafting
international secondments and transfers
large scale redundancy projects
employee share schemes
privacy and discrimination/human rights complaints
restraint of trade and
union and collective issues.

Prior to joining AKD Partners, Laura worked in the UK for almost 10 years. She advised FTSE 100 clients alongside HR and tax consultants as part of an international HR network of lawyers advising on employment, pensions and immigration.

Laura is a well-known legal commentator and regularly presents on aspects of employment and health and safety law.

She holds additional leadership and governance roles locally and globally for AKD Partners as a New Zealand Board Member, Co-Chair of New Zealand’s Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee, lead of New Zealand’s Head Start Programme, and member of the Asia Pacific Diversity and Inclusion Council. She is also a former Trustee of the Global Scholarship Programme.

Laura is on the Sustainable Business Council Advisory Board and is a member of Global Women in New Zealand.

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