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"West Oak’s success has come from always putting our clients’ best interests first and always finding ways to improve and add more value to them"
Andrew mcquiston,
west oak family office, wellington-altus private wealth
Ashley-Jayne (AJ) Lodge, AWI-CH, co-leads Anderson Lloyd’s national employment team, providing practical, pragmatic solutions to often complex workplace issues. She represents clients at mediation, in the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court, High Court, and the human rights and privacy institutions. She provides advice to boards on governance matters, organisational change management, and complex settlements. AJ also acts for employer insurers.
AJ conducts independent investigations for both employers and other organisations, and has specific experience in sexual harassment and bullying investigations. AJ is a certified Association of Workplace Investigators member and Certificate Holder (AWI-CH).
AJ is a committee member of the New Zealand Law Society Employment Law Committee, and the New Zealand Law Society Canterbury and Westland Employment Law Committee. She regularly presents at regional and national employment law conferences, and has thought leadership pieces published both locally and globally.
She assists employers, employees, and HR professionals with all workplace law matters, including day-to-day management of employees, restructures and redundancies, employee claims, advising on and providing representation in human rights matters, privacy, workplace health and safety, and employment agreements and policies.
Although based in Christchurch, AJ travels to Auckland and Queenstown regularly and represents clients from New Zealand and across the globe.
Ashley-Jayne (AJ) Lodge
Partner
Anderson Lloyd
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Ashley-Jayne (AJ) Lodge
Partner
Anderson Lloyd
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Special Report
Home
Bio
Milestones
Profile
Ashley-Jayne (AJ) Lodge
Partner
Anderson Lloyd
Read on
Special Report
Home
Bio
Milestones
2020
2019
2018
2020-2021
2014-2022
2020
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Received Best Lawyer in Canada Award (Employment and Labour Law)
2020
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2019
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
TeD Talk Speaker
2019
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2018
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
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2018
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2020-2021
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Received Lexology Client Choice Award (Labour and Employment – Canada)
2020-2021
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2014-2022
human resources | key media
Received Best Lawyer in Canada Award (Employment and Labour Law)
2014-2022
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Milestones
Career Accolades
2021
2020
2018
2016
2021
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Joined Anderson Lloyd as Partner and Co-Lead of the Firm's
national employment team
2021
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2020
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Project owner for the Agile Innovation Scrum Team, which contributed to the firm winning the 2020 New Zealand Lawyer Innovative Firm Award
2020
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2018
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Became the youngest partner at South Island law firm at the age of 30
2018
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2016
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Argued the precedent-setting case of Xtreme Dining Limited Trading As Think Steel V Leighton Dewar (2016) NZEmpC 136, which dealt with contributory conduct of an employee
2016
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Career Highlights
2021
2020
2018
2016
2021
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Joined Anderson Lloyd as Partner and Co-Lead of the Firm's national employment team
2021
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2020
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Project owner for the Agile Innovation Scrum Team, which contributed to the firm winning the 2020 New Zealand Lawyer Innovative
Firm Award
2020
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2018
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Became the youngest partner at South Island law firm at the age of 30
2018
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2016
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Argued the precedent-setting case of Xtreme Dining Limited Trading As Think Steel V Leighton Dewar (2016) NZEmpC 136, which dealt with contributory conduct of an employee
2016
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Milestones
Milestones
http://www.al.nz
http://linkedin.com/in/ajlodgeemploymentlawyer/
ashley-jayne.lodge@al.nz
027 233 4650
Level 3, Anderson Lloyd House, 70 Gloucester Street, Christchurch, New Zealand
2020
2019
2018
2020-2021
2014-2022
2020
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Receive an excellence award
2020
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2019
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
TeD Talk Speaker
2019
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2018
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
title of milestone
2018
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2020-2021
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Received Lexology
Client Choice Award
(Labour and Employment – Canada)
2020-2021
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2014-2022
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Received Best Lawyer in
Canada Award
(Employment and Labour Law)
2014-2022
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Career Accolades
Milestones
2021
2020
2018
2016
2021
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Joined Anderson Lloyd as Partner and Co-Lead of the Firm's national employment team
2021
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. A volutpat laoreet suscipit duis. Diam aliquam sed ut massa viverra a, eget libero.
2020
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Project owner for the Agile Innovation Scrum Team, which contributed to the firm winning the 2020 New Zealand Lawyer Innovative Firm Award
2020
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. A volutpat laoreet suscipit duis. Diam aliquam sed ut massa viverra a, eget libero.
2015
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Became the youngest partner at South Island law firm at the age of 30
2018
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2016
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Argued the precedent-setting case of Xtreme Dining Limited Trading As Think Steel V Leighton Dewar (2016) NZEmpC 136, which dealt with contributory conduct of an employee.
2016
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Milestones
2019
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Appointed to the New Zealand Law Society National Employment
Law Committee
2019
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2019
2019
2019
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Appointed to the New Zealand Law Society National Employment Law Committee
2019
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2019
2019
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Appointed to the New Zealand Law Society National Employment Law Committee
2019
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