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“WCM Legal’s service and willingness to help and solve a problem is very much appreciated”

“VERY PLEASEd WITH THE SERVICE AND RESULT…IT’S A PLEASURE DOING BUSINESS WITH WCM LEGAL”

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WCM LEGAL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED SINCE 1886

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WELCOME TO WCM LEGAL

WCM Legal is full-service NZ law firm, working for you, your family and your business, providing legal advice and support for:

  • purchasing or selling property, business, shares or assets

  • estates, asset planning, family trusts, wills or Powers of Attorney

  • relationship property matters

  • debt arrangements, refinancing or remortgaging

  • commercial lease and contract drafting and advice

  • commercial arrangements or disputes

  • employment issues

  • bankruptcy, insolvency and debt collection

  • mediation or dispute resolution, or court proceedings

  • subdivisions, property development, boundary adjustments or easement registration or amendment

This list is not exhaustive! Enquire with us if you have a legal issue we may be able to help guide and support you through. Our team have years (and in some cases decades) of experience supporting our clients with their legal hurdles and we take pride in providing you a pragmatic approach to get you the outcome you want. The cost for our professional legal services depends on complexity and the amount of work involved for your matter but if you call us and describe your issue to one of our legal team, they can provide you with a no obligation quote for the work.

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OUR LOCATIONS

We provide our legal services to our clients across New Zealand (and on occasion, especially for conveyancing, wills and estates matters, across the world). We are able to provide our legal services remotely using technology, but we can also meet with you in person at one of our 3 offices (Wellington, Greytown, Carterton) or, where you have an urgent need for wills or EPOAs, we also visit you in the local area with hospital or home visits.

 
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OUR HISTORY

WCM Legal are proud of our heritage, with its roots starting out in 1874, when W.G. Beard set up his law practice in Greytown, which was sold in 1886 to Colonel RW Tate. At that time our law firm provided legal services to the Small Farms Association, the Greytown Trust Lands Trust and many early settler families whose descendants have used the firm as their lawyers since its beginning and continue to do so. In the 1890s the Carterton branch of the firm was run by Hart Tucker and Daniell until 1955 when Ian Wollerman purchased the legal practice. 

In 1981 the two legal practices, then known as Major Gooding & Wollerman and Thompson Tate Cullinane & Cooke, merged to become one practice, and then also incorporated the legal practice H W Banks in Featherston. In 2006 the firm was renamed to WCM Legal and moved its Carterton practice to the Wairarapa Electric Power Board building in Memorial Square. Finally, in 2012 WCM Legal merged with Wilson & Co in Wellington.

WCM Legal is a proud member of Law Alliance New Zealand (‘LANZ’), which brings together a network of law firms across New Zealand. WCM Legal’s then partner Mark Hinton, who has sadly now passed, was instrumental in the beginnings of LANZ and Mark was joined in this endeavour by WCM Legal’s then partner Keith McClure (now consultant). To this day, WCM Legal’s partners continue to be members of LANZ.