The headhunter has arrived. Recruiter Sam Bookatz is over from Australia, and plans to take a crop of commercial lawyers home with him. And I m here to hunt, yes, I don t make any apologies about it, he says. If I could bring 20 lawyers back with me I think that would be a major achievement.
And money talks. He s offering to pay them up to 40 percent more.
Major Aussie law firms are willing to pay big bucks to fill their labour shortage. We re losing lawyers to the UK and the US, and we don t have enough to begin with, so we re turning to new Zealand and that s why I m here, Bookatz says.