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Top 25 Civil litigation lawyers based in New Zealand
RevenueBase identified 99 civil litigation lawyers headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026 and tracks 1,059 professional contacts across them, including 607 with verified work emails. Auckland is the largest hub.
This list covers civil litigation lawyers headquartered in New Zealand, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest civil litigation lawyers based in New Zealand
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gibson Sheat is a full-service commercial law firm with offices in Wellington, Lower Hutt and Masterton.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Getting straight to the point through expertise, experience and understanding.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're on the shore, and we're on your side.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fee Langstone is a law firm that takes a professional, principled, yet personable, approach to business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Todd Walker is one of Otago / Southland’s leading all service law firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The legal environment is always changing, so the impact of the law and how it affects individuals and companies in our community is in a constant state of change also.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a carefully curated team of experts meeting clients’ challenges at their pace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 125 years, Malley & Co have provided a range of specialist legal services and advice to our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Heaney & Partners is a specialist commercial litigation and dispute resolution practice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wilson Harle is a commercial litigation practice with a broad spectrum of expertise and experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a local law firm who would love to look after you, your business and the small print.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Willis Legal, your trusted full-service law firm in Te Matau-a-Maui/Hawke’s Bay.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ford Sumner is a Wellington based law firm with a retainer client base including local, national and international organisations in a range of industry sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Braun Bond & Lomas is a nationally recognised boutique law firm, specialising in litigation and construction law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gallie Miles is an established law firm with offices in Otorohanga, Te Awamutu and Hamilton.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our close knit team draw on global experience and high calibre expertise to work incredibly hard on your behalf.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a specialist advisory and dispute resolution law practice with extensive experience as advisors and advocates in complex litigation and regulatory matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1909, Cuningham Taylor blends modern approachability with traditional values.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Burley Castle Hawkins Lawyers are a friendly, highly regarded and well established law firm located in Tauranga and Te Puke, Bay of Plenty New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zone Law provides a full range of intellectual property (IP) and business law services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Thomas Dewar Sziranyi Letts began life in 1995 as a specialist civil, criminal and family law litigation practice, becoming one of the largest in the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Grimshaw & Co is a full service litigation firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nelson law firm C&F Legal is a highly responsive team of professionals whose expertise includes Property Sales and Purchases, Commercial Transactions, Court work, in particular…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a specialist law firm in four areas of law - Civil & Criminal Litigation, Equine Law, and Immigration Law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We specialise in a broad spectrum of legal services across business, commercial, transactional and personal issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: civil litigation lawyers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names civil litigation lawyers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of civil litigation lawyers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name civil litigation lawyers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Civil litigation lawyers based in New Zealand at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for New Zealand, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for New Zealand, over 99 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among civil litigation lawyers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in New Zealand whose own description of what they do matches “civil litigation lawyers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names civil litigation lawyers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among civil litigation lawyers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside New Zealand are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 607 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Civil litigation lawyers by metro
- Civil litigation lawyers in Auckland38
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names civil litigation lawyers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many civil litigation lawyers are there based in New Zealand?
RevenueBase identified 99 civil litigation lawyers headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Gibson Sheat Lawyers, headquartered in Wellington, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most civil litigation lawyers?
Auckland leads with 38 headquartered companies, followed by Christchurch (9) and Wellington (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 607 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 99 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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