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John Marshall QC, President
Wellington barrister John Marshall QC became the 27th President of the New Zealand Law Society, which has more than 10,000 members, on 30 March 2007, succeeding Chris Darlow who had held office for three-and-a-half years.
Educated at Wellington College, John graduated from Victoria University with an LLB in 1969, and was admitted the same year. He worked as a law clerk and then as a junior solicitor with Perry Wylie Pope & Page in Wellington in 1968 and 1969, leaving there to travel overseas. On returning in 1971, he worked as a solicitor in the firm then known as Watts & Patterson for two years before joining Buddle Anderson Kent. He became a partner there after two years and stayed until 1997, by which time the firm was known as Buddle Findlay. In 1991, John had taken a year out and worked for Blake Dawson Waldron in Perth.
Since 1998, he has been in sole practice as a barrister, based in Wellington. As well as litigation, public law, Treaty of Waitangi claims and other areas of practice, John has become increasingly involved in solving disputes through arbitration and mediation in recent years.
John became Wellington District Law Society President in 2003, taking him onto both the NZLS Council and the NZLS Board, where he served as one of the vice-presidents for two years and as treasurer for two years. He was appointed a QC on 16 May 2007.
John is married to Mary and they have three adult children: John, Annabel and Clementine.
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