Lauren Wallace

Lauren leads our Environment and Planning Team and is a nationally regarded lawyer specialising in environmental and local government law, construction law and civil litigation.

Lauren acts for a broad client base including local authorities, iwi, national corporations, and community groups. She advises on all aspects of environmental and planning issues, including resource consent projects, minerals and petroleum development, renewable and clean tech developments and local government planning and policy. She has significant experience assisting with large residential and coastal subdivisions, commercial developments and infrastructure projects.

In civil litigation, Lauren is a skilled negotiator with extensive experience across a range of contractual, lease and property disputes, debt recovery and judicial review proceedings.

In 2024, Lauren was recognised as a top female lawyer in New Zealand through NZ Lawyer’s Elite Women award.

Lauren is a dedicated trustee for Wild for Taranaki, New Zealand’s first regional biodiversity trust, the national treasurer, national executive committee member and regional co-chair for the Resource Management Law Association | Te Kahui Ture Taiao, and the deputy chair of the Moturoa School Board. She provides pro bono support as the honorary solicitor for the Friends of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre. Lauren has also recently joined the Taranaki Women in Leadership organising committee.