Lawyer Steph Dyhrberg was Wellingtonian of the Year in 2018 for her work in combating sexism in the workplace, is a past convenor of the Wellington Women Lawyers’ Association and is a partner in law firm Dyhrberg Drayton which recently won Employment Law Specialist of the Year in the 2021 New Zealand Law Awards. She picked to come to Wellington (over Auckland) to summer clerk years ago.
What does it mean to be a Wellingtonian?
I think to be a Wellingtonian is to be cultured, educated, lucky, caring and well-fed!
We are smart, savvy, mostly pretty kind to each other, a lefty liberal lot (which personally I appreciate!) and statistically highly educated. We are privileged to live here. On a stunning day it’s unbeatable.
I live here because …
I didn’t want to live in Auckland. I had the choice, when I was looking at summer clerking for Russell McVeagh and I thought the Auckland offices of big law firms were very scary,
So I came to the Wellington office at Russell McVeagh which was above Kirkcaldies and smaller and seemed more welcoming.
Now it’s primarily because of family and friends.
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