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Phillipa Muir

Phillipa Muir

Asia-Pacific 2026

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Phillipa is Simpson Grierson's Chair, and one of New Zealand's leading employment lawyers. She acts for many of New Zealand's major corporations, tertiary institutions, and local government bodies.

Phillipa has successfully argued several leading cases in new areas of employment law. These include the first major damages claim brought by an employer against a union, the first successful stress damages case to go to the Court of Appeal, and the first employment law case to go to New Zealand's Supreme Court.

Professional Memberships

Director of Delegat Group Limited

Chair of Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund

Trustee of Sweet Louise Foundation

Publications

Co-author Brookers text ‘Employment Law’

Co-author Brookers text ‘Recruitment & Termination’

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Employment - New Zealand

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Phillipa Muir has extensive experience in acting for prominent public and private sector clients in high-profile litigation matters as well as providing strategic advice on investigations, collective bargaining and senior executive issues.

Strengths

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  • Our organisation has enormous trust in Phillipa to provide commercially savvy and pragmatic advice.

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  • Pip is the benchmark for strategic legal advice fine-tuned with commercial reality.

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