Your development is important. We are committed to our people and high performance.
When you join us you will find that we are committed to helping you develop your skills, whatever your role. And at every stage of your career, we will work with you to help you achieve your career goals.
Great work
Minter Ellison is recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading, full-service commercial law firms. We represent several of the NZX top 50 companies including Pike River Coal Limited, Westpac Banking Corporation and Fisher & Paykel Finance, TrustPower Limited and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ). Read more about our success here.
Our firm is a member of the worldwide Minter Ellison Legal Group (MELG), one of the largest full-service law firms in the Asia-Pacific region and amongst the largest in the world. Employing more than 290 partners and 900 legal staff in 13 offices across four countries, our global reach includes New Zealand, Australia, The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom. Together, we have worked to become the only recognised top-tier global legal grouping owned and operated from Australasia.
Legal Staff
You will have the opportunity to learn as you work alongside colleagues and Partners who are leaders in their field, as rated by our clients and independent directories.
Mentoring is encouraged at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts as is the development of cross-team relationships. Our One Firm approach is about operating as a single, collaborative and creative team.
All new members of our team receive a comprehensive induction to Minter Ellison Rudd Watts and the opportunity to build on your skills through our extensive learning, development and training programmes including:
Divisional Seminars – Our staff are encouraged to attend our regular information seminars for clients
Graduate Development Programme – features seminars run specifically for graduates
IT Workshops - courses run on applications used within our firm
Legal Research Skills - training on Brookers/Westlaw, CCH, LexisNexis or to develop general research skills
We promote continued education, and support our people in furthering their tertiary studies, or undertaking additional training courses related to their particular area of expertise. We encourage and support post-graduate study.
We coordinate staff involvement at:
External conferences, courses and workshops
Courses run by the Auckland District Law Society (ADLS)
Courses, conferences, seminars and workshops run by New Zealand Law Society (NZLS)
Special courses - for newly qualified practitioners
Seminars
Intensives
Participating in Minter Ellison Rudd Watts community initiatives
Minter Ellison Minter Ellison Rudd Watts is proud to be the long-standing, corporate sponsor of the New Zealand Law Students’ Association Witness Exam Competition that is run annually at each of New Zealand’s five schools of law including Auckland, Canterbury, Otago, Victoria and Waikato University.