Strategic Legal Expertise, Focused on Your Goals
We deliver practical, focused legal solutions designed to support your objectives. Our team combines specialist, in-depth knowledge, with a personalised approach, ensuring you receive clear, timely advice that delivers results.
Business Law
We work closely with our business clients, offering exceptional service while delivering the depth of knowledge and strategic insight required to handle complex matters. We take the time to understand your business, its goals, and the challenges you face, enabling us to provide advice that is both practical and commercially sound.
Our team has broad capability across key legal areas, including Corporate and Commercial, Property and Construction, Dispute Resolution, Employment and Investigations, and more. With a depth of expertise across these key areas, our team provides strategic, but pragmatic legal solutions.
Personal Law
We provide expert advice and representation tailored to your unique circumstances.
Our Family Law Team assists individuals and families with relationship property matters, care of children, and resolving disputes. Our Family Lawyers provide compassionate guidance through what can often be challenging and emotionally charged situations.
Our Private Client Team helps clients structure their personal and financial affairs to protect their assets and secure their future. Services include residential conveyancing, establishing and managing trusts, wills and probate, estate planning, and asset protection strategies.
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Our Industry Specialties
Precision fuels aviation—and our advice. Ford Sumner Lawyers guides airlines, airports and service providers nationwide, blending deep sector insight with expertise in regulation, governance, finance and employment.
Trusted by 12 NZ airports, we anticipate risk, ensure Civil Aviation Authority compliance and craft robust contracts from leases to incident response. One agile team, keeping your operation airborne with confidence.
As AoG panel members, we provide agencies fast access to sharp, cost-effective counsel. We untangle procurement rules, draft watertight contracts, manage employment and privacy risks, and defend decisions when challenged.
With deep knowledge of public-law frameworks and commercial realities, our agile team safeguards accountability so you can deliver better outcomes.
Our team provides clear, practical advice on contracts, risk, health-and-safety, and disputes, so builders, contractors and developers can focus on the job at hand. Whether drafting NZS agreements, navigating payment claims or resolving disagreements through adjudication or negotiation, we supply the insights that keep projects moving. Through Tradie Law, we also offer ready-made templates and compliance checks for swift, day-to-day support.
We bring seasoned property insight to every deal. We guide owners, investors and developers on purchases, finance, leases and subdivisions, and help private clients secure assets through trusts, wills and enduring powers—offering clear direction from first home to complex portfolios.
We advise a wide range of sectors—from technology, energy and manufacturing to healthcare, agribusiness and professional services. Whatever the industry, we combine commercial insight with deep legal expertise in contracts, governance, employment and dispute resolution. Our team learns your operational realities quickly, translates complex regulations into clear actions, and delivers timely, pragmatic advice that keeps your organisation moving.
Aviation
Precision fuels aviation—and our advice. Ford Sumner Lawyers guides airlines, airports and service providers nationwide, blending deep sector insight with expertise in regulation, governance, finance and employment. Trusted by 12 NZ airports, we anticipate risk, ensure Civil Aviation Authority compliance and craft robust contracts from leases to incident response. One agile team, keeping your operation airborne with confidence.
Government & Public Sector
As AoG panel members, we provide agencies fast access to sharp, cost-effective counsel. We untangle procurement rules, draft watertight contracts, manage employment and privacy risks, and defend decisions when challenged. With deep knowledge of public-law frameworks and commercial realities, our agile team safeguards accountability so you can deliver better outcomes.
Construction
Our team provides clear, practical advice on contracts, risk, health-and-safety, and disputes, so builders, contractors and developers can focus on the job at hand. Whether drafting NZS agreements, navigating payment claims or resolving disagreements through adjudication or negotiation, we supply the insights that keep projects moving. Through Tradie Law, we also offer ready-made templates and compliance checks for swift, day-to-day support.
Property
Other Industries
We advise a wide range of sectors—from technology, energy and manufacturing to healthcare, agribusiness and professional services. Whatever the industry, we combine commercial insight with deep legal expertise in contracts, governance, employment and dispute resolution. Our team learns your operational realities quickly, translates complex regulations into clear actions, and delivers timely, pragmatic advice that keeps your organisation moving.
Jaesen Sumner
“Jaesen helped me tirelessly with a dispute resolution. He was innovative and thoughtful with his solutions and i m very thankful he was on our team."
- Simone De Beauvoir, Dispute client 2024