Neil Sands Increasing the number of women appearing as senior counsel in New Zealand’s higher courts will happen only if the legal profession can persuade clients, particularly large corporates, to broaden their hiring policies, experts have told LawNews. They said that resolving the gender disparity, highlighted in a New Zealand Bar Association (NZBA) study, will also require the profession’s elite – mostly men – to proactively step aside and give women more opportunities in the high...
