What I bring to the table isn't just a law degree.
About Lenore Brady
Most of the people who come to see me are going through something hard — a marriage ending, a parent losing capacity, a death in the family, or a decision they're anxious about getting wrong.
Before I was a lawyer, I trained in psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy wasn't the original plan either. After school I studied law at Otago, then drama at Toi Whakaari - the New Zealand Drama School. Then three years in Japan, next came three and a half years at Dunedin's Ashburn Clinic — all of this before deciding law was actually where I wanted to be.
It's an unusual path into this profession, but the pieces fit better than they sound. Drama school taught me to listen properly and explain things clearly. The psychotherapy training taught me to sit with people through grief, conflict, and fear about the future without rushing them along. I use all my skills with clients, because a surprising amount of law isn't really about the law — it's about the person I’m sitting with.
The Legal Side
I worked ten years with Antony Hamel, three and a half more at Whitcombe Law, then out on my own.
These days I work across:
Relationship property division and Contracting out agreements (prenups)
Enduring Powers of Attorney
Wills
Probate, Letters of Administration and Estate administration
Trusts
I have a soft spot for clients who are in the thick of it — an older client wanting their affairs sorted while they can still make those calls themselves, or someone stressed and overwhelmed in the middle of a relationship property split.
These aren't transactions to me. They're people who need steady, patient guidance through a process that feels enormous from the inside.
Dunedin is home. If I'm not in the office, I'm likely walking up Flagstaff.
Lenore Brady
My logo is a stylised St John's Wort — the sunny, five-petalled herb I head into the hills in summer to collect, alongside Thyme, Mullein, and California poppy over the year.
I've always loved herbs, and I have huge admiration for Sandra Clair, who is a leading Swiss medical herbalist who has completed a PhD on how regulators in New Zealand might weave centuries of traditional plant medicine knowledge into today's evidence-based health policy.
It feels like the right emblem for a law practice built on care as much as competence.
The logo
