A life of law: Nick Malarao

A life of law: Nick Malarao
Nick Malarao has joined Richmond Chambers. (Image: Supplied)
Eva Kershaw
Nick Malarao began his legal career at Meredith Connell in Auckland 23 years ago, but the firm's longest-serving member and senior partner of 14 years is leaving to become a barrister.  In a leaving speech to his colleagues reflecting on his career, Malarao referred to the Japanese proverb: a frog in a well does not know the great sea.  “I sensed that there has to be more to life than the small world I happened to be born into,” he said, going on to describe “just how unlikely it was that I got here at all”...

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