Legal Executive

Jamie Ford

Jamie is a Legal Executive in our Tauranga property and commercial team, providing dedicated support across a broad range of property, conveyancing and trust matters. She joined Holland Beckett in 2025 as a Practice Assistant and quickly progressed into a Legal Executive role within John Mackay’s team. Jamie works closely with Rachel Withington, assisting clients …

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Rachel Saunders

Rachel joined Holland Beckett as a Legal Executive in 2025. Rachel began her legal career at a local law firm, where she worked for ten years across a variety of practice areas, with experience in Property Law, Estate Planning and Estate Administration. Rachel now works closely with Georgina Smith in the Property team, with a …

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Emma Howard

Emma Howard is a Registered Legal Executive in our property and commercial team. Emma specialises in residential and commercial conveyancing, refinances, trust establishment and administration, and estate planning matters. She works closely with Joel Murphy, Emily Merrill, Rebecca Irvine and their clients.  

Keely Smith

Keely Smith is a Registered Legal Executive in our Tauranga property and commercial team. Keely has been working in law since 2019, beginning her career as a legal secretary and going on to complete her Legal Executive Diploma in 2024. She joined Holland Beckett and Joel Murphy’s team in 2025. She primarily works in conveyancing. …

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Kate Duncan

Kate Duncan is a Legal Executive in our Whakatāne property and commercial, and estates teams. Kate joined Holland Beckett in October 2021 as receptionist in our Whakatane office, before becoming a legal secretary. She completed her New Zealand Diploma in Legal Executive Studies in October 2024. Kate works alongside Jayden McNeil in the property/commercial team, …

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Micaela Ashford

Micaela joined Holland Beckett as a Legal Executive in 2024 and works closely with Georgina Smith in the Property team. Micaela has a background in banking and is enjoying broadening her skillset and knowledge of property finance and conveyancing within a different industry.

Ella Rose

Ella Rose is a Registered Legal Executive in the Holland Beckett succession and estates team. Ella joined Holland Beckett as an Administration Assistant in 2019. She gained experience working as a Legal Secretary in the succession and estates team before working closely with Bill Holland as a Legal Executive. She then spent two years in …

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Brittany Wilde

Brittany is a Registered Legal Executive in the property and commercial team in our Whakatāne office, working with Dan Broadhurst. Brittany was introduced to the legal profession in 2017 starting out as a litigation assistant. She made the transition over to conveyancing and went on to complete her Diploma in Legal Executive Studies in 2020. …

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Saunoa Pau

Saunoa is a Legal Executive in Holland Beckett’s property and commerical team. Saunoa has worked as a Legal Executive in Luke Stewart’s team since 2018 supporting clients through a wide range of residential property and commercial transactions. Saunoa’s experience spans residential conveyancing, commercial dealings, Deed and Agreement preparation and general transactional work, with a practical, …

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Lauren Paterson

Lauren was born and bred in Tauranga and joined Holland Beckett in 2015 as an administration assistant before becoming a legal secretary in the property team. Lauren has since completed her NZ Legal Executive qualification 2019 and now works as a senior registered legal executive specialising in residential and commercial conveyancing as well as assisting …

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