Wotton Kearney has announced 14 senior promotions in Australia and New Zealand, including a new partner, effective 1 January 2022. This follows 23 senior promotions made in July this year. The latest promotions take the firm’s numbers to 51 partners and more than 280 dedicated insurance lawyers in total. With the well-deserved promotion of Ken […]
Wotton Kearney has been recognised as a Band 1 insurance firm in Australia for the tenth year in a row in the 2022 Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific rankings and has risen to Band 1 in New Zealand. Thirteen of the firm’s senior lawyers were also individually rated. Chambers says W+K is known for being a “well-regarded […]
Wotton Kearney’s Marine and Aviation team continues to grow with the arrival of special counsel Melissa Tang. Melissa is based in Sydney and joined the firm on 6 December following a five year stint in Singapore in the Marine and Aviation team of a global firm. The W+K Marine and Aviation team is led by […]
In our next Q&A with recently promoted partners, we get to know Melbourne based Health and Workplace specialist, Chris Spain.
In our next Q&A with recently appointed partners, we get to know W+K’s Marine + Transport team leader Naraya Lamart.
W+K is delighted to be awarded Insurance Specialist Firm of the Year at New Zealand Law Awards 2021. This is our impressive 5th win in seven years with judges commenting “An outstanding submission including a huge range of complex national and international matters as well as showing a strong commitment to the mental health of […]
The meeting of world leaders at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference known as COP26 this week has been described as a forum which will decide the date of our planet. COP26 is being seen as the last chance to close the gap between the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming […]
W+K Pro Bono Partner Heidi Nash-Smith took part in a special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show podcast to share her experience of working with NGO So They Can through the firm’s Community Footprint program. Heidi and Sydney barrister Hugh Stowe joined host Jerome Doraisamy to discuss how they each became involved in So They […]
In our next Q&A with recently promoted partners, we get to know Perth Financial Lines lead Luke Vincent.
W+K has partnered with Canopy Software, the leaders in AI-powered data mining and breach review software, to deliver a tech-enabled Cyber Forensic solution. By using Canopy’s Data Breach Response software, W+K can now significantly reduce the time, cost, risk and effort associated with the defensible detection of sensitive data, thereby delivering faster and more accurate […]
