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Scholarship winner passes on tips for managing external counsel
Elizabeth Rinckes knows how to manage external counsel - and she'd like to share her tips and techniques with you.
Elizabeth, Senior Legal Counsel for AXA New Zealand based in Wellington,
is the winner of the inaugural Corporate Lawyers' Association (CLANZ)-Bell
Gully Scholarship for in-house counsel. You can read Elizabeth's winning
entry by clicking on the link below.
"It never occurred to me that managing external counsel would be
anything but straight forward," says Elizabeth, who spent a number
of years in private practice before moving in-house. "The reality
was that I found instructing external counsel to be another skill to hone."
Sarah Ongley, Senior Solicitor at the Ministry for the Environment
in Wellington, was named scholarship runner-up. Sarah's entry is also
featured below.
Scholarship applicants submitted a paper on the tips, tools and techniques
for managing external counsel
Entries were judged by a distinguished panel, comprising: Terence Arnold
QC, Solicitor-General; Christine Grice, President of the New Zealand Law
Society; Ronald Pol, Corporate Counsel at Telecom NZ and President of
CLANZ; Nic Short, General Counsel at Carter Holt Harvey and Vice-President
CLANZ; and David Flacks, Partner, Bell Gully.
Bell Gully has been principal sponsor of CLANZ - the Corporate Lawyers'
Association of New Zealand - for the past two years. CLANZ supports lawyers
working in corporate and other organisations, and central and local government
through information and networks.
Click here to read Elizabeth's essay
Click here to read Sarah's essay
