NZ Law Society section members by region

The NZ Law Society register shows when a lawyer belongs to one of its sections. We hold 2,268 Property Law and 1,552 Family Law section members among the practising lawyers we list, from the register read in November 2026.

Section membership is shown on the NZ Law Society register. It is membership of a Law Society section, not an area of practice, an accreditation or a specialism, and says nothing about the quality of a lawyer's work.

Property Law Section members

2,268 members across 16 regions.

Region	Members
Auckland	867 · pages 1 2 3 4 5 6
Canterbury	418 · pages 1 2 3
Wellington	232 · pages 1 2
Waikato	182 · pages 1 2
Otago	157 · pages 1 2
Bay of Plenty	109
Hawke's Bay	55
Nelson	44
Taranaki	42
Northland	41
Southland	36
Manawatū-Whanganui	32
Marlborough	25
Gisborne	17
West Coast	10
Tasman	1 (too few to list separately in search)

Family Law Section members

1,552 members across 16 regions.

Region	Members
Auckland	538 · pages 1 2 3 4
Canterbury	248 · pages 1 2
Wellington	171 · pages 1 2
Waikato	138
Bay of Plenty	118
Otago	82
Northland	48
Hawke's Bay	44
Nelson	42
Manawatū-Whanganui	33
Taranaki	28
Southland	26
Gisborne	20
Marlborough	10
West Coast	5
Tasman	1 (too few to list separately in search)

Source: NZ Law Society register entries, read November 2026. We list lawyers in private practice who hold a practising certificate; in-house lawyers are not included. LawyerFinder is not affiliated with the NZ Law Society. Counts by region, certificate, role and area: NZ lawyers in numbers. How we collect and check the data: data and sources.