Stacey Shortall

She then joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a Wall Street law firm in New York, for 11 years before returning to New Zealand and MinterEllisonRuddWatts in 2010, where she took a position as partner.

[3] Shortall has over 20 years' experience in litigation cases and regulatory matters and regularly represents financial institutions, other corporate clients, public sector entities and directors and officers.

She also worked as part of a team undertaking research for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on genocide and rape as war crimes.

Shortall volunteered for the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem to advocate for mothers seeking to have their children returned from foster care.

[3] Shortall is the founding trustee of the Who Did You Help Today charitable trust in New Zealand, which connects skilled people with not-for-profit community projects.

[3][9] The Who Did You Help Today trust also runs HelpTank, which is New Zealand’s first home-grown digital platform that matches not-for-profits with skilled professionals to enhance collective capability to achieve social change.

[14] In the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours, Shortall was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the law and the community.