Your Legal Counsel
Your Legal Counsel
Our approach
We believe effective legal support is about more than identifying legal risks.
It is about helping organisations understand those risks, make informed decisions and achieve their objectives.
Our approach is built on developing a genuine understanding of an organisation, its people, culture and priorities. This allows us to provide advice that is practical, accessible and aligned with organisational goals.
Whether supporting an organisation on an ongoing basis, assisting with a specific project, or providing temporary in-house legal capability, we aim to become a trusted extension of the wider team.
Our experience
Our experience spans private practice, in-house legal teams, executive leadership and governance roles.
This breadth of experience allows us to understand organisations from both legal and operational perspectives, helping us provide advice that is practical, commercially informed and aligned with organisational objectives.
Growing our team
We welcome conversations with experienced in-house lawyers and senior commercial legal professionals looking for a different way of working, one that offers flexibility, variety and the opportunity to become a trusted extension of a client's team.
We look for people who are collaborative, pragmatic, commercially minded and genuinely interested in helping organisations achieve their objectives and who share our belief that legal support works best when it is practical, commercially focused and closely connected to the organisations we support.
If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
What our clients say
Clients regularly tell us they value:
Our ability to integrate quickly into organisations and understand the broader business context
Practical solutions that go beyond purely legal considerations
Working collaboratively with teams across the organisation
Support that helps deliver meaningful organisational improvements
The confidence of having an experienced legal adviser who can take a project from concept through to implementation
"Your Legal Counsel's flexible and embedded approach provided considerable value, helping us develop practical solutions and frameworks that supported a step-change in organisational maturity. The support went beyond purely legal advice, resolving multiple business challenges and delivering outcomes that worked for the organisation."
Group Manager - Corporate Services, Sport New Zealand
“We recently engaged Your Legal Counsel for contract advice and legal services…Sarah demonstrated exceptional professionalism, deep legal expertise, and a strong attention to detail. Sarah took the time to understand our specific needs and provided clear, numerous supply contracts and guidance that helped us navigate our response for a nationwide Government tender, with confidence”
Managing Director, Health and Diagnostics Sector
“A highly experienced lawyer, she has been a real asset to me and to Catalyst, quickly picking up new systems and tools to deliver pragmatic, commercially focused advice…I would happily recommend Your Legal Counsel to other General Counsel needing contract support, whether for discrete projects or ongoing business-as-usual work."
Christine Loughnan, General Counsel, Catalyst