Russell Stewart > Fee Langstone > Auckland, New Zealand > Lawyer Profile
Fee Langstone Offices
Level 18
51 Shortland Street
Auckland 1010
New Zealand
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Russell Stewart
Position
Partner
Career
Russell has extensive experience conducting commercial litigation and providing advice and litigation strategies on a range of legal issues. Russell has particular expertise in professional indemnity/commercial litigation – defending claims against solicitors and barristers, accountants, auditors, investment bankers, financial brokers, real estate agents, surveyors and engineers. Russell also has a particular expertise in acting for solicitors and barristers, chartered accountants and auditors defending disciplinary complaint/regulatory investigations and proceedings.
After working for two years in a large commercial law firm in Auckland, Russell moved to Sydney. He practiced in Sydney in a leading Australian commercial and insurance firm for over ten years before returning to New Zealand. Russell joined Fee Langstone (formerly Jones Fee) in September 2010. He was promoted to Partner in February 2019.
Russell heads up the firm’s specialist accountant and auditor claims team. He regularly acts in relation to claims and proceedings brought against solicitors and barristers.
Russell is admitted to practice in the High Court of New Zealand, the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal and High Courts of Australia.
Memberships
New Zealand Law Society
Auckland District Law Society
New Zealand Insurance Law Association
Australian Professional Indemnity Group, New Zealand (founding NZ Committee member)
Lawyer Rankings
New Zealand > Dispute resolution
Noted for its ‘deep understanding of the insurance industry and insurance law’, Auckland-based Fee Langstone is variously praised for its ‘friendly, formidable, practical and reliable’ advice. The practice counts complaints, regulatory investigations, and class actions in its key caseload. The team is jointly led by the ‘truly outstanding’ Philippa Fee and Craig Langstone
. Fee regularly represents insurers and their clients in property damage claims, while Langstone is routinely engaged by insurance companies in dispute resolution matters. The ‘client-focused’ Russell Stewart is noted for his expertise in professional indemnity litigation, defending claims against solicitors and barristers, accountants, investment bankers, and engineers.