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Nick worked on/off (but mostly on!) at NZCF for the best part of three years, initially covering a personnel gap, then parental leave cover, then providing ongoing assistance with an important project workstream. Over this time, he fitted in seamlessly to the Legal team and the wider organisation, and was able to provide not only strong technical and commercial assistance fulfilling his core role but also help develop other team members and heavily contribute to a successful project. Thanks Nick!

Mary’s attention to detail and strategic thinking on novel corporate law issues made her invaluable to our team. She consistently provides clear, pragmatic advice on complex legal matters. Her ability to champion client views while considering the ultimate users of our services has been praised within our organisation. Mary’s thoughtful, empathetic approach to public sector advice makes her highly recommendable.

Deb is an exceptional professional who combines practical application with vast experience, She has an impressive ability to pick things up quickly and make sound decisions giving practical and business centric advice. Deb also made a seamless transition to cover the Head of Legal role while I took a longer holiday, and both the team and internal clients loved her.

Nicole quickly integrated into our team and made an immediate impact. She demonstrated excellent technical skills and effectively solved the problems we engaged her for. Nicole's contributions were outstanding, and she proved to be a valuable asset to the team.

Sarah has been a wonderful addition to our team over the past 6 months, bringing with her a broad understanding of various areas of law and a genuine interest in the energy industry and in understanding the operational and technical aspects of the business.

Consequently, she has fostered strong relationships with our business and has been highly regarded for the quality of her legal advice.

Sarah has great people skills and has consistently demonstrated a willingness to assist others when she has had capacity.

In addition to her substantive contributions, Sarah has also been valued for the mentorship and guidance she has provided to our junior lawyers.

Experienced, calm, and pragmatic. Dan hit the ground running and fitted into our team seamlessly. His approachable and professional personal style enabled him to quickly form trusted relationships with our wider business we're grateful for the valuable contribution Dan made during his time with us.

Caroline excelled in communication and relationship-building, frequently engaging with our team to ensure alignment and understanding. Her friendly and easy manner made her a pleasure to work with, both over email and on calls. In areas that were new to her, she adapted swiftly and effectively with minimal guidance. Her commitment to timely and clear work completion made her an invaluable asset to our team.

Caroline is a calm, thoughtful and unflappable lawyer who is able to work with ambiguity, which is particularly important in our operational environment. She always rolls up her sleeves and gets on with the matter at hand, is happy to work through a time consuming issue or complex problem, and manages her client relationships with courtesy and professionalism. She also has a great sense of humour.

Our clients have all enjoyed working with her, and I have appreciated the support of a senior lawyer who I can trust to identify issues, seek guidance where required and maintain important client relationships with ease.

Jen quickly absorbed the workflow and prioritised projects and tasks accordingly.
She was always available, made pragmatic recommendations and seamlessly fitted into the team.

Dan was an immediate and effective contributor to our team from the start. He demonstrated an ability to gain a detailed understanding of our business in an extremely efficient manner and developed effective working relationships across our teams over a short timeframe.

Saul was a seamless fit into the Kordia team and provided the perfect mix of technical legal advice with being a pragmatic and commercial sounding board for the business. From a personal perspective, he was a joy to work with and had such a warm and engaging manner. I couldn't recommend him more.

Tim has been an absolute asset to our team. He provides strategic, solutions focused advice on all issues and helps our client find the best pathway through complex challenges. We have loved having him be part of our team.

Margot is a wonderful addition to our team. I can not commend her highly enough. She is extremely competent and manages a very busy workload. She consistently receives glowing feedback from the internal stakeholders that deal with her. On top of all that, she is always bright and cheerful, and she makes a very positive contribution to our team culture.

Sarah has a friendly, approachable style and was quickly able to develop strong relationships across the organisation. She's hard-working, practical and efficient, which has made her a hugely valued and respected asset on the legal team. She's interested and engages well across all areas of the organisation, which helps to deepen her understanding of our context - but she's also able to step back and highlight opportunities to streamline and simplify processes and documentation. She's a trusted sounding board and just an all-round gem.

Jen [gave a] thorough and thoughtful handover. She has played such a key role in establishing the "new Stuff" since the MBO, and I know she is very loved by the business. I can also see the stellar work she has done in re-shaping our legal function to make it fit for purpose for the journey ahead. And of course she is a whip-smart lawyer and a brilliant, funny and kind colleague. Whoever gets her next will be very lucky. 

To say Jeremy is a safe pair of hands is an understatement. Jeremy came to EA to cover parental leave. He helped us by taking on a newly created interim manager role in our compliance (enforcement) team, bringing together a team of investigators. Jeremy put in place new processes and redesigned the way the team operated to streamline and modernise the function, while also keeping the team happy and engaged. He also dealt with some high profile and challenging cases. Nothing seems to phase Jeremy; he’s extremely competent, reliable and fits in really well in any team. Jeremy has materially reduced the pressure and workload for me – he’s been a lifesaver.

Nikki fitted in extremely well and was able to teach and learn and be a support as well as a very capable lawyer. She helped solve a particularly complex and difficult OIA/Privacy issue that had become vexatious and stressful– Nikki came in and organised the situation into a mini project and used her people skills/legal analysis and judgment in a way that took a lot of the heat out of it. We were able to move forward in a way that had been difficult before Nikki’s guidance and professionalism. Nikki is motivated, pragmatic, and personable as well as having extremely good technical ability – this makes her a perfect member of an in-house legal team.

Jacki has brought a depth of experience to the RBNZ legal team. We note she has many strings to her bow, including her skills as a coach and personal development counsellor in her legal and business advice. I would highlight her contracting and procurement advice where she guided us closer to best practice, working closely with the business.

I’m a big fan of Juno’s services for our in-house legal needs. 

Anthea Herron joined our team to help support us during a time of increased workload and limited in-house resources. She hit the ground running straight away and made a huge contribution to workload management. 

Anthea brought with her not only greatly appreciated top-end legal support but a big smile and positive attitude, which, as we all know, is highly infectious. I would definitely hope to bring Anthea back to support the team when needed in future – if she hasn’t already been snapped up!

Jen is an absolute superstar and has taken on the role of general counsel with enormous ease, despite media being a new industry to her. Nothing fazes her, whether it be a tricky media issue or, as happened a few weeks into her tenure, a change of ownership for our business.

She has become an integral part of our executive leadership team, respected and trusted by the whole executive as well as the wider business, and has been a valued contributor to our overall strategic work and planning. Besides her professional abilities, she is a fantastic colleague to work alongside and we have been very fortunate to have her in our business.

Jeremy is working out absolutely fantastically and he is exactly what I wanted and needed for me and his team. He has worked out very quickly where the issues are and is now addressing them professionally. He is enabling his team to demonstrate how well they can do their jobs and I am already receiving petitions to keep him on forever!

When Airways had a lawyer go on parental leave, Matt came in to help: We are so grateful to have someone of Matt’s calibre providing parental leave cover.  He’s full of fresh ideas for ways to enhance our systems and his creativity, knowledge, pragmatism and obvious personal enthusiasm for all things “tech” mean he brings real wisdom and perspective to our ICT contracting (and other commercial contracting) work. I had approached Juno looking for someone to help us maintain status quo during a team member’s absence, but I got someone who enhanced our operations.

We are a big fan of the Juno model, and Sarah Graydon in particular. Sarah is a highly respected lawyer who headed the legal team at NZ Post meaning she brings all this experience with her. She is incredibly pragmatic, fast, intuitive and knowledgeable. We have also benefitted hugely from Sarah’s wide range of different experiences and ability to provide us with more general consultation advice (for example on some unnecessary complexity in the way we do things). This is something I think the Juno model, and Sarah in particular offers that we just can’t get from a law firm secondee. 

I wanted to let you know how much we enjoyed working with Nikki. She was amazingly efficient at everything she did, built great relationships all around the business and was good fun to have around the office. We really enjoyed her being here and were sad to see her go. I really like your business model and have told lots of people about how well it’s worked for us.