Stacey Shortall

Stacey Shortall is a New Zealand lawyer, based in Wellington. She has received a number of awards for her social programmes, which aim to develop children and women to their full potential.

Early life and education

Shortall was born and raised in the Manawatu, in the North Island of New Zealand.[1] She graduated with a BCA (Accounting) degree from Victoria University of Wellington in 1994, followed by a LLB in 1995. She completed her LLM degree in Alberta in 1996.[2]

Career

Shortall worked for a Wall Street law firm in New York for 11 years before returning to New Zealand in 2010.[3] She took a position as partner with Minter Ellison Rudd Watts law firm.[4] Shortall specialises in litigation cases and insolvency.[2]

Charitable work

While working in New York, Shortall volunteered at a Manhattan prison, assisting women and mothers. She also joined an NGO in Ghana, working to set up a police unit to prosecute child rapists.[4]

In 2014, Shortall initiated a "homework club" at a primary school in a low socio-economic area of Porirua, Wellington. She organised volunteers from her law firm to visit the school and help children with their homework for one hour a week. She also assists other schools and organisations to connect with each other to form similar programmes.[5]

Shortall also organises a group of volunteer lawyers in Auckland to assist mothers in prison and to encourage them to maintain a relationship with their children.[6][7] Her programme was developed in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Shortall trains all volunteers involved.[4]

Recognition

In 2015, Shortall won the Community Award in the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.[7] The same year, she won LawFuel's Lawyer of the Year Award.[3]

In 2016, Shortall received a Blake Leader Award from the Sir Peter Blake Trust.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Who are we?". 2016-02-24. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
  2. 1 2 "Stacey Shortall". Chambers & Partners. 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Stacey Shortall: LawFuel's Lawyer of the Year 2015 - LawFuel New Zealand". 2015-12-30. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
  4. 1 2 3 "The Stacey Shortall Interview - Succeeding as a Woman in Law - LawFuel New Zealand". 2016-02-28. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
  5. ↑ "Homework HELP Club". 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
  6. ↑ "Mothers Project". 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
  7. 1 2 "Winners » Westpac New Zealand". www.westpac.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
  8. ↑ "Sir Peter Blake Trust honours leaders at black-tie awards". Retrieved 2016-07-03.
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