Working Together

Providing additional personnel to central and local government organisations, is Extra Law’s business. Extra Law is available to support organisations when they:

Need to get work done during staff longer term absences, or during a
changeover and recruitment of new permanent staff;
Have a substantial task to progress such as legislative review or litigation;
Have a backlog of work that needs to be cleared;
Need specialist advice on discrete projects outside their core business.

Extra Law has successfully provided support in these situations to other clients including Statistics New Zealand, Overseas Investment Office and Te Arawhiti – Office of Māori Crown Relations.

+ Meet Valerie

I am an in-house lawyer, who has had over 30 years post qualification experience. I started in private practice and have worked in corporate and public organisations before setting up Extra Law. I am convinced that access to temporary legal personnel support, would enable your team to:

Give the big issues the right level of attention;
Find time to review so issues don’t recur;
Proactively support policy development by brainstorming early for efficient, legally compliant, solutions;
Retain its institutional knowledge.

My experience means I can hit the ground running and adapt to different working environments and systems. As your Extra Law team member, I can efficiently provide you with assistance in public and administrative law, general commercial and public contracts, in-house legal support to litigation, legislative review, complex commercial and Crown property situations, treaty settlement work… and get up to speed with your specialised core business!

You can read my curriculum vitae and listen to my mihi whakatau here.

Valerie's CV

Valerie's Mihi

+ Extra bonus and business card “extra”

As well as providing quality in-house legal work, your Extra Law team member aims to fit in with your team culture. You can, for example, expect a morale boosting spontaneous morning tea and even Extra Law business cards are given with an “extra”!

Valerie participates in a Matariki TikTok challenge with some colleagues.

Valerie celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing for an Overseas Investment Office team presentation.

Extra Law was there “with bells on” as a sponsor of Counsel In Concert and its fund raising Christmas concerts for Child Cancer Foundation.

You can be sure of a Christmas-themed morning tea.

A cup of tea and an Anzac biscuit on Extra Law while contemplating lives lost, or changed forever, commemorating the Centennial year of the end of World War I (lives lost including lawyer William Malone who died at Gallipoli)