Profile
If you want to know a bit more about me, please read on, but I think the best way to know me, and to understand whether I can help you or your client, is to have a conversation.
What I do and how I go about doing it has to be all about you: what motivates you, what you want to achieve. My role is really to understand that, and to try to help you to get there. But not in just any old way, in the best way for you. That might mean you need to go to court, or it might not. Ending up in court is not always the best way to go. Ending up in court can be sub-optimal. But sometimes you have to do what you have to do. If push comes to shove and you need someone to argue in court, that is part of what I do. The bottom line is that the challenges you have right now are special to you. And so too are the solutions to those challenges. Together we will have a good hard look at the challenges you face, and together we will find solutions to them.
But enough about you, more about me ...
I am a general civil and commercial litigator. I have a broad practise focus. A lot of the work I do involves contractual disputes in one form or another, the Commerce Act, the Fair Trading Act, with the odd tort thrown in for good measure. I don’t limit myself: I’ve done shareholder and director disputes, trust matters, insurance issues, defamation, maritime, lease, construction, property, and professional discipline issues. I also do a bit of administrative law and judicial review work. I enjoy doing different things.
I started my career in 1993 with Russell McVeagh. In 2002, I established LeeSalmonLong (a specialist disputes firm). I joined the independent bar at the start of 2017.
I did my post graduate studies at Oxford University, where I enjoyed being taught by wonderful people like Colin Tapper, Adrian Zuckerman, Francis Reynolds, Adrian Briggs, and Roy Goode. I present on legal topics from time to time, and when I do that, I’m told I can be quite entertaining. I have appeared before all New Zealand courts in a wide range of disputes, and I also do both international and domestic arbitration work. I have aspirations to be an arbitrator myself, so if that’s what you are after, let’s talk.
I’ve taught the Civil Procedure elective at Auckland University since 2018. I like to think that by my efforts there “tomorrows lawyers” will be better, faster and stronger than many of the present profession. Embrace change or die.
Profile
If you want to know a bit more about me, please read on, but I think the best way to know me, and to understand whether I can help you or your client, is to have a conversation.
What I do and how I go about doing it has to be all about you: what motivates you, what you want to achieve. My role is really to understand that, and to try to help you to get there. But not in just any old way, in the best way for you. That might mean you need to go to court, or it might not. Ending up in court is not always the best way to go. Ending up in court can be sub-optimal. But sometimes you have to do what you have to do. If push comes to shove and you need someone to argue in court, that is part of what I do. The bottom line is that the challenges you have right now are special to you. And so too are the solutions to those challenges. Together we will have a good hard look at the challenges you face, and together we will find solutions to them.
But enough about you, more about me ...
I am a general civil and commercial litigator. I have a broad practise focus. A lot of the work I do involves contractual disputes in one form or another, the Commerce Act, the Fair Trading Act, with the odd tort thrown in for good measure. I don’t limit myself: I’ve done shareholder and director disputes, trust matters, insurance issues, defamation, maritime, lease, construction, property, and professional discipline issues. I also do a bit of administrative law and judicial review work. I enjoy doing different things.
I started my career in 1993 with Russell McVeagh. In 2002, I established LeeSalmonLong (a specialist disputes firm). I joined the independent bar at the start of 2017.
I did my post graduate studies at Oxford University, where I enjoyed being taught by wonderful people like Colin Tapper, Adrian Zuckerman, Francis Reynolds, Adrian Briggs, and Roy Goode. I present on legal topics from time to time, and when I do that, I’m told I can be quite entertaining. I have appeared before all New Zealand courts in a wide range of disputes, and I also do both international and domestic arbitration work. I have aspirations to be an arbitrator myself, so if that’s what you are after, let’s talk.
I’ve taught the Civil Procedure elective at Auckland University since 2018. I like to think that by my efforts there “tomorrows lawyers” will be better, faster and stronger than many of the present profession. Embrace change or die.
Profile
If you want to know a bit more about me, please read on, but I think the best way to know me, and to understand whether I can help you or your client, is to have a conversation.
What I do and how I go about doing it has to be all about you: what motivates you, what you want to achieve. My role is really to understand that, and to try to help you to get there. But not in just any old way, in the best way for you. That might mean you need to go to court, or it might not. Ending up in court is not always the best way to go. Ending up in court can be sub-optimal. But sometimes you have to do what you have to do. If push comes to shove and you need someone to argue in court, that is part of what I do. The bottom line is that the challenges you have right now are special to you. And so too are the solutions to those challenges. Together we will have a good hard look at the challenges you face, and together we will find solutions to them.
But enough about you, more about me ...
I am a general civil and commercial litigator. I have a broad practise focus. A lot of the work I do involves contractual disputes in one form or another, the Commerce Act, the Fair Trading Act, with the odd tort thrown in for good measure. I don’t limit myself: I’ve done shareholder and director disputes, trust matters, insurance issues, defamation, maritime, lease, construction, property, and professional discipline issues. I also do a bit of administrative law and judicial review work. I enjoy doing different things.
I started my career in 1993 with Russell McVeagh. In 2002, I established LeeSalmonLong (a specialist disputes firm). I joined the independent bar at the start of 2017.
I did my post graduate studies at Oxford University, where I enjoyed being taught by wonderful people like Colin Tapper, Adrian Zuckerman, Francis Reynolds, Adrian Briggs, and Roy Goode. I present on legal topics from time to time, and when I do that, I’m told I can be quite entertaining. I have appeared before all New Zealand courts in a wide range of disputes, and I also do both international and domestic arbitration work. I have aspirations to be an arbitrator myself, so if that’s what you are after, let’s talk.
I’ve taught the Civil Procedure elective at Auckland University since 2018. I like to think that by my efforts there “tomorrows lawyers” will be better, faster and stronger than many of the present profession. Embrace change or die.
Areas of practice
Additional information
Examples of some of the cases I have been involved in are below. These are some of the things that ended up in court.
Examples of some of the cases I have been involved in are below. These are some of the things that ended up in court.
BA/LLB (Hons) (Auck)1991
BCL (Hons) (Oxon) 1998
Admitted: 1993
Barrister Sole: 2017
