Location Waimarama, Wellington, New Zealand Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australasia Gender Male
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ene founded LawHawk in 2016, after a 17 year career as a corporate and finance lawyer, to change the way legal work is done.
He has a long-standing interest in precedents and document automation, and first implemented document automation for Westpac in 2000, reducing business banking and property finance loan document preparation time from an hour
to 3 minutes. Document automation has been a career long goal.
In 2012 Gene realised that document automation of the complexity he knew was possible could only be done by someone with a combination of legal and automation skills, and with specialist document automation software, so he learned HotDocs automation.
Prior to founding LawHawk, he was a corporate and finance partner at Buddle Findlay for 6 years. He has previously worked at Chapman Tripp, Westpac, and CMS Cameron McKenna in London.
He has acted on many significant corporate and finance transactions, and been ranked by IFLR as a leading lawyer in both Corporate and Banking.
Gene also has an MBA (Dist) from Victoria University (graduating first in class),which helps him understand and design effective business processes and strategies.
Gene regularly speaks at industry events, such as the ILANZ mini-conferences on Disruption in October 2016 (where he spoke of the importance of a collaboration strategy) and he was the only New Zealand speaker at the Australasian Legal Practice Managers Association (ALPMA) Summit in Brisbane in September 2017, on the topic “Don’t Automate – Obliterate!”. Gene also published an e-book in 2016 covering more than 50 technologies that lawyers could use to be more successful. This is free to download here.
Gene is on the Advisory Board of the Australasian College of Law’s Centre for Legal Innovation.
Gene enjoys helping business people – yes, including lawyers – work out how technology can support their wider business strategy. His ideal customers are people who are excited by the opportunities to grow their businesses over the long term by using technology to win more work through genuinely working faster and better.
Gene is married to C
