ADR Centre Competitors

Begin your legal journey with the NZLS Auckland Young Lawyers. We are a section of the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Law Society, comprising all Auckland-based lawyers in their first 5 years of practice. We are here to promote collegiality and networking as well as to provide members with a voice to the Auckland Branch Council and wider groups within the Law Society. The NZLS AYL also fosters discussion of law reform matters and issues affecting the legal profession. It promotes information sharing through its regular ebulletins to members and monthly seminars by experts in various fields.

Resolution Institute is the largest dispute resolution membership organisation in the southern hemisphere (IAMA and LEADR that began in 1975 and 1989 respectively, merged to form Resolution Institute in 2015). It operates as a not for-profit organisation representing more than 3,000 members in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region practising across the resolution spectrum in processes such as mediation, arbitration, adjudication, conflict management, family dispute resolution, restorative justice, expert determination, conciliation and facilitation. Resolution Institute supports its members to: connect with colleagues, learn and grow together, build professional and collegiate networks, raise standards of DR practice, have a voice on current DR issues, and strengthen and promote DR. Resolution Institute provides DR training (both public and in-house), accreditation and continuous professional development.

Collaborative Advocacy NZ is a society made up of Collaborative Professionals. It oversees training and practice standards of collaborative professionals, promotes Collaborative Advocacy and provides support and ongoing education to its members.