Would like to clarify, our understanding of helen’s conviction is that it was for drink driving. Not fraud or murder or anything like that. if it had been our thoughts on continuing to use helen would need to take that into consideration so can someone please confirm? Thanks roz
From: Ucol-shareholders ucol-shareholders-bounces@list.king.net.nz On Behalf Of Catherine Spencer via Ucol-shareholders Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2019 2:43 p.m. To: Anne Thomson e.anne.thomson@gmail.com Cc: UCOL shareholders ucol-shareholders@list.king.net.nz Subject: Re: [Ucol-shareholders] Information regarding our lawyers
Hi all,
Further to Anne’s email below, I have been talking to Helen directly, who is now extremely happy to be working with Anja Klinkert and will soon become partner in the practice. She remains committed to the Cohousing project and has already given many hours pro bono to it. Helen is in the process of hiring a good legal executive to get the administrative and clerical assistance she needs and which was not given to her at McMillan and Co and ironically was one of the main reasons for her leaving.
The next major amount of work will not be for some time and will involve a large amount of work for the unit titling. We will have time to discuss and weigh our options and gather more information, should we need it.
Catherine
On 13/03/2019, at 1:15 PM, Anne Thomson <e.anne.thomson@gmail.com mailto:e.anne.thomson@gmail.com > wrote:
Hi all,
Another agenda item, and some background information (a report to the meeting!)
Sally McMillan, the principal of McMillan & Co, the law firm who have acted for us and in which Helen Davidson used to practise, rang me during the week.
She confirmed that Helen has left the firm, after some difficulties including a conviction. She wanted to assure us that we remain a valued client of McMillan & Co, if we wish to continue using them as our lawyers. Simon Milne, the partner who does a lot of conveyancing, and Katherine Neville-Lamb, a solicitor, have both worked extensively with Helen and are familiar with our files and our project.
So far as Sally knows, Helen is now practising with Anja Klinkert, a sole-person practice in Hope Street. Sally is not aware that there is any administrative or secretarial support there.
Looking to the future, there is a lot of legal work that lies ahead of us at the end of the build, when it comes to unit-titling and the completion of the purchase process. Sally believes that this will require a large amount of administrative support as well as lawyers who know what we have done and what we are wanting to achieve. She believes that McMillan and Co are well-equipped to provide what we need and would be delighted to continue to work with us.
I told Sally that I would convey all this to UCOL when we next met. I also said that I thought that someone from the budget control group will need to to sit down with McMillan & Co to discuss with them the budget we have set for the remaining legal work on the project and whether it is realistic - I don't want to discover as we come to settle that our legal expenses blow the budget (and the purchase price) out of the water. She encouraged such a discussion.
See you tomorrow night,
Anne
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