About Extra Law

A problem meets an extra solution.

The Extra Law solution

Extra Law provides an innovative solution to an organisation’s legal needs by bringing an extra pair of hands directly into your team, when and how you need it.

Our extra solution is an option where engaging a traditional law firm, or employing a permanent in-house legal team member, is not the best fit.  An engagement with Extra Law has the following advantages:

  • We provide a person who will quickly get up to speed with your organisation and its business, and be an integrated team member;
  • Extra Law takes care of all the employment aspects for your Extra Law team member;
  • Your Extra Law team member already has government in-house knowledge;
  • Knowledge gained will be kept within your team.  Your Extra Law team member will help upskill other team members and capture your institutional knowledge so it can be readily used for the future.

We appreciate you may be needing help at a time when you are at your busiest. Extra Law will make it as easy for you as possible to engage us:  let us do the running around. Our business model is tailored to government. See how we can work together:

Working Together
Extra Law Limited was set up in 2017 as an Alternative Legal Services Provider (ALSP). However, like a traditional law firm, we are bound by the same New Zealand Law Society rules that are designed to give clients piece of mind about the legal services we provide.
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 The problem

There is interesting work being done by government organisations and their in-house legal teams, but a lack of personnel may make it a struggle to manage the organisation’s legal risk.  Bringing extra personnel into a legal team means it will be able 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 your institutional knowledge.

Getting the right personnel can be tricky.  Holidays, extended or parental leave, additional project work, staff secondments or staff turnover can exacerbate the situation.