Tompkins Wake
Daniel Erickson is a seasoned legal professional with extensive experience in employment law, currently serving as a Partner at Tompkins Wake since April 2022. Previously, Daniel was a Partner at Douglas Erickson Employment Lawyers from May 2016 to March 2022, where a focus was placed on pragmatic, solution-focused legal advice and representation. Prior to that, Daniel held a Partner position at Kiely Thompson Caisley, providing employment law services to various industries from February 2005 to May 2016. Earlier in the career, Daniel worked as a Senior Solicitor and Solicitor at Duncan Cotterill from June 1999 to January 2005. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Political Science from the University of Canterbury, completed in 1999, and completed secondary education at Nayland College from 1989 to 1993.
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Tompkins Wake
Tompkins Wake is one of New Zealand's leading full-service commercial law firms. Named New Zealand Mid-Size Law Firm of the Year at the NZ Law Awards in 2019, 2020 and 2021, the firm has also been ranked as a Leading Law Firm in the Asia Pacific by The Legal 500 every year since 2018. We work with a focus on building long-term relationships and trust, providing strategic advice to create and grow value for our clients. Tompkins Wake has built significant capability and resource to position itself as a leading nationally focused law firm, globally connected as the New Zealand member of elite global law network MultiLaw. Located in Hamilton, Auckland, Rotorua and Tauranga with more than 200 staff, we are the law firm that clients turn to for help on the matters most important to them. We use our collective knowledge and expertise and we gain immense satisfaction from working together to develop solutions to the complex and sophisticated challenges our clients present. Through the diversity of our team, our advice and counsel are enhanced. Our people ’s backgrounds, cultures, experiences and skills fuel fresh thinking, new ideas, unique perspectives and insights allowing us to continually develop new and better solutions. We strive to make a tangible and positive difference to the communities we serve and to New Zealand through the work we do for our clients, the value we contribute through our pro bono work and other charitable and community-focused support, and by being a responsible and ethical business. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle