Scale your in-house capabilities with a team that works the way you do, when you need them to.

In-house legal teams often face capacity constraints or require specialised expertise in specific legal areas. Source offers a unique solution to bolster your team without the need to increase headcount, engage costly secondment or placement services, or rely on traditional law firms. We can act as your in-house team, providing a whole team of specialists or supplement your existing team with the additional expertise you need.

Why Choose Source?

Our Point of Difference

Powerful Together

We know our clients need flexibility, the highest quality service and an unmatched depth of experience to do their best work.

Together with our teams in Australia and New Zealand, we provide the most practical and effective professional services on the market, no matter your business size or need.

Highly regarded for their energy and commercial approach, Hamilton Locke adds specialist expertise to our depth and breadth of experience at Source.

A trusted partner for teams globally, Helios empowers organisations to build information security and privacy practices that are proactive, practical and purposeful.

Our Services

At Source we cover all the areas that businesses typically encounter in their day-to-day operations. Our team of lawyers are experts at helping businesses navigate legal issues with ease.

Business-as-usual legal work

Contracts and commercial law

Employment and workplace issues

Fulfilling Privacy Officer requirements and conducting full privacy audits

Trade mark services including management, watching services and brand audits

Early-stage disputes

Property and commercial leases

Health and safety

Meet the New Zealand Team.

Amy Kingston-Turner

Director - Commercial
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Courtney Grenfell

Senior Legal Counsel – Commercial
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Erin Mogford

Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial
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Katrin Lee

Legal Counsel - Commercial
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Plus get access to over 80 lawyers and specialists in our Australian team. Meet them here.

FAQ’s

Choosing your partner for legal support is a big decision, and we’re happy to answer your questions before we work together.

Answers to some of our frequently asked questions:

Source acts as your outsourced in-house legal team or an extension of your existing legal team, charged through a pre-agreed monthly retainer. The scope of the retainer is all business-as-usual legal work, which primarily includes commercial and employment work. With a Source retainer, you get allocated a lawyer who will be the main point of contact, but you also get access to all the lawyers on the Source team, ensuring you can tap into a wide and deep set of legal skillsets to work through your legal situations within NZ.

Each monthly retainer is pre-agreed with you based on the value of our service to you (not on our time). When agreeing a retainer, Source considers factors such as the complexity of the work, the volume of the work, and the value of the work to you. There are no standard prices or rates with Source. Prices can be scaled up or down depending on whether you’re receiving value from Source’s services.

Hiring an in-house lawyer limits your business to the skills and experience of one person. With Source, you gain access to an entire team of lawyers with expertise across various areas, including employment, privacy, technology, and property. Our client managers ensure that the right lawyer handles your workflow, streamlining processes and building a deep understanding of your business – all with the certainty of fixed fees.

If you already have in-house counsel, Source can complement your existing team. We can take care of your business-as-usual (BAU) legal needs, freeing up your in-house lawyer to focus on higher-level business responsibilities or ongoing projects. We serve as overflow legal support, and in some cases, we can even bridge the gap between old and new in-house teams, acting as part of your succession plan. Our sustainable working model allows us to seamlessly step in when your team members are on leave or unexpected changes impact your business.

At Source, we pride ourselves on offering a pricing model that’s as transparent as it is flexible. Our approach ensures you have complete cost certainty and the freedom to tailor our services to your needs. Here’s how it works:

  • Monthly Retainer-Based Pricing: This model provides you with a consistent, agreed-upon fee that fits your business and service value, eliminating hourly rates and time tracking.
  • Fixed Fee Project Pricing: For specific projects or ad hoc services, we offer fixed pricing, so you know exactly what to expect without surprises.

No Lock-In Contracts: Our monthly retainers are flexible and operate on a month-to-month basis, giving you the freedom to scale services up or down as needed. Our goal is to develop a close, long-term relationship by providing exceptional support—not by tying you into a contract.

Every Source retainer can be terminated on 30 days’ notice. We prefer to let the quality of our service speak for itself, rather than locking you in contractually.

Each Source retainer is tailored specifically for an individual client. Under a monthly retainer, Source can provide you with an agreed scope of work including business-as-usual legal support, general commercial work, employment work, property, privacy, trade marks, across many areas of your business, just like an in-house lawyer would.

A Source retainer does not include event-based legal work such as M&A, conveyancing or litigation, although for this sort of work we can work with your existing law firm or work seamlessly with our allied business Hamilton Locke.

Our lawyers are in-house lawyers and therefore we aim to fully embed ourselves in your business. We aim to develop deep expertise in your business so we can provide the most relevant and tailored legal support. Law firms are excellent when business’ need particular expertise for an event that only rarely occurs such as an mergers & acquisition transaction or litigation, but for all the day-to-day work, Source can be a more cost effective and right-sized solution.

Because every Source retainer is bespoke, we can accommodate short term engagements such as when a staff member goes on leave, or when a business needs help for a short-term project.

We can be your outsourced legal team, your virtual General Counsel, an extension of your existing legal team, or a flexible scalable legal team that can easily scale up to cover capacity overflow and/or leave cover, or scale down when things are quieter.  

Everywhere! We are a remote team of lawyers based all around New Zealand. Remote working allows us to bring the best of the legal industry to you without being restricted by location.  And when we can, we love to visit our clients and work within your spaces and teams. We’ve worked from client offices in Auckland, Wellington and Hawkes Bay just to name a few.

We also have a team in Australia to help with issues that may arise in that jurisdiction.  

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