2 Law jobs in New Zealand

Law Clerk

Auckland City, Auckland Righteous Law Limited

Posted 9 days ago

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full-time

This role is for New Zealand citizen or resident only, no visa supporting.

We are looking for a capable and proactive Law Clerk with 2–3 years of practical legal experience to support our legal team. This role is ideal for someone progressing toward admission as a solicitor or seeking to build on their experience in a high-performing legal environment. The successful candidate will assist with substantive legal work, including research, drafting, and matter management, while also playing a key role in supporting senior legal staff.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct in-depth legal research and provide analysis to support litigation, advisory, or transactional work

  • Draft a range of legal documents including contracts, pleadings, briefs, affidavits, legal opinions, and correspondence

  • Assist in file management across all stages of legal matters—from instruction through to resolution

  • Prepare bundles for court proceedings or regulatory submissions

  • Attend client meetings, mediations, or court (as required) and take detailed notes or minutes

  • Liaise with clients, counsel, courts, and third parties in a professional and timely manner

  • Ensure all work complies with firm policies and legal ethical obligations

More details about the position 

Job type: Full-time Permanent 
Number of positions for this job: 1 
Pay rate: $24.00 per hour 
Days required: 5-6 days/week (Must be available on Weekends)
Hours per week: 35 hours/week, maximum 55 hours/week

Key Requirements: 

  • Master qualification in Law (NZQA-accredited) AND at least two years of relevant experience in a legal environment

  • Strong research, writing, and analytical skills

  • Proficiency with legal software (e.g., OneLaw, Actionstep) and research platforms (Lexis Advance, Westlaw NZ)

  • Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail

  • Clear understanding of the New Zealand legal system, including court procedures and common legal processes

  • Able to work independently while contributing to a team

If you are a New Zealand citizen or resident, meet the above requirements, have a great work attitude and are a team player, please send us your CV. 

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Legal Content Specialist - NZ Law focus

Wellington, Wellington RELX INC

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Join LexisNexis, a global leader in legal content and analytics, as a Content Developer - Analytical Content in our New Zealand team. This is a strategic role suited for a legally trained professional with a passion for content development and a strong understanding of New Zealand law, including tikanga Maori, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi considerations.
About the role
As a Legal Content Specialist, you'll lead the strategic development of legal content within the New Zealand Content Management team. Working closely with subject matter experts, you'll be responsible for the commercial performance of your content portfolio-driving decisions around pricing, marketing, sales strategies, and new product development.
Your legal expertise will help shape content strategies that align with customer needs and market trends. You'll collaborate with internal stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, and customer discovery to create compelling business cases and ensure our content continues to deliver strong value and market relevance.
Reporting to the Head of Content Management NZ, this is a permanent full-time role based in our Wellington office in New Zealand with combined home/office-based arrangements to have flexible work-life balance.
Responsibilities
+ Content Strategy: Ownership and responsibility to develop content strategies from new product ideation, to proposals including major redevelopments or positioning of existing content. This entails integrating Te Ao Maori principles into your work, including tikanga, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
+ GTM & External Team Support: Establishing efficient tools and methods to support Sales and Marketing teams in promoting and securing sales of products.
+ Relationship Management (external & internal): Establishing key relationships to share knowledge and support external facing teams.
Requirements
+ 3+ years' experience as a content developer or equivalent experience in legal or publishing industries
+ Legal practice, legal industry and/or publishing experience
+ An understanding of Te Ao Maori and tikangaHigh level of legal research skills
+ Computer skills in Microsoft Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
+ Superior reading and legal comprehension skills
+ Excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills
+ Demonstrated project management skills
+ Strong commercial awareness
Please note you must be legally authorised to work in New Zealand to be considered for this role.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
+ Discounted Health plan rate and Optical Assistance
+ Life assurance and income protection
+ Option to buy additional Annual Leave days
+ Employee Assistance Program
+ Flexible working arrangements
+ Benefits for you and your family
+ Access to learning and development resources
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
To learn more about opportunities with LexisNexis or RELX Global, join us here:
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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.
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