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Specialist advice, clearly explained.
Privacy, data, AI, technology, intellectual property and disputes often overlap. Choose a specialist area below, or start with the problem you need to solve.
Privacy, data & AI
Use information responsibly and with confidence.
From everyday advice to complex AI, biometric and breach matters, the work is shaped around the decision your organisation needs to make.
Privacy advice & compliance
Clear, practical advice on how the Privacy Act applies to the information your organisation collects, uses, stores and shares.
Privacy governance & maturity
Build privacy capability that is visible, accountable and sustainable across the organisation.
Outsourced privacy function
An ongoing privacy function on a monthly retainer, combining AI assisted delivery with lawyer certification for every output that matters.
Privacy impact assessments
Test a proposed project, system or data use before decisions become difficult or expensive to reverse.
Biometrics & facial recognition
Specialist advice for technologies that identify, verify or categorise people through their physical or behavioural characteristics.
AI governance & responsible use
Specialist AI law and governance advice for the way your organisation buys, builds and uses artificial intelligence.
Data breaches & incident response
Calm, strategic legal support when personal or confidential information is lost, accessed, disclosed or used without authority.
Privacy complaints & investigations
Thoughtful support through complaints, internal reviews, regulator engagement and contested privacy issues.
Access, correction & individual rights
Respond to requests about personal information accurately, fairly and within a process your team can manage.
Data sharing & overseas disclosure
Design arrangements for sharing information that are lawful, transparent and commercially workable in New Zealand and overseas.
Privacy policies, notices & consent
Explain information practices in language people can understand and align the words with what the organisation actually does.
Workplace privacy
Navigate the collection, monitoring, use and disclosure of employee and applicant information with care.
Privacy training & Privacy Officer support
Give the people responsible for privacy the confidence, tools and specialist support to make sound decisions.
Commercial, technology & information
Protect value while keeping important relationships workable.
Focused commercial advice for technology, services that use AI, data, confidentiality and digital products. This is not general corporate housekeeping.
Technology & AI contracts
Draft, review and negotiate technology arrangements with the product, data and commercial reality in view.
Data & confidentiality agreements
Protect sensitive information and define clearly how data may be accessed, used, shared and returned.
Digital products & online terms
Create clear legal foundations for websites, apps, platforms and technology services.
Intellectual property
Create, own, commercialise and enforce.
Commercial and strategic IP advice across ownership, licensing, collaboration, brand protection, infringement and enforcement.
Explore the IP practiceIntellectual property
Identify, protect, commercialise and enforce the intangible assets that distinguish your organisation.
IP commercialisation & licensing
Turn intellectual property into usable commercial value through clear ownership, permissions and deal structures.
IP strategy & enforcement
Build a proportionate protection strategy and respond decisively when intellectual property is copied, challenged or misused.
Disputes, enforcement & reputation
Protect the position and resolve the problem.
Strategic advice on complex contractual disputes, construction claims, breach of confidence, defamation, privacy issues and intellectual property enforcement.