LAVANYA DUNRAJ
L avanya Dunraj is the principal of the firm.
Lavanya's extensive legal background has its roots in South Africa where she ran her own legal firm for many years.
Prior to that she worked for five years as in-house counsel to an insurance company.
Lavanya graduated in 1979 with a B.Com (Law) degree and in 1982 with a LLB degree. Lavanya also completed a Fellowship of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London in 1988.
Lavanya was admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 1998.
Initially she worked for a firm in Remuera prior to moving closer to home in Howick where she was appointed an associate in the firm she worked for many years, working predominantly in the area of family law.
Botany Law was formed at the time of the establishment of the then new Botany Town centre, and Lavanya saw the opportunity to provide legal services to a developing community.
Lavanya has a keen interest in the area of family and property law thus enabling her to concentrate her skills in the area of Relationship property and Matrimonial matters.
A matrimonial split often entails a split of all sorts of matrimonial/ relationship property such as Family Home, Bank accounts, Superannuation fund, boats, cars, businesses and other interests and hence a wide variety of skills and knowledge are required to deal with the division of assets and liabilities, and Lavanya's experience enables her to deal with such matters with ease.
Not all marital break-ups are acrimonious but when they are Lavanya's conciliatory approach means matters can often be resolved amicably and with dignity. "The parties have enough stress at these times and as a professional I do my best to ease the burden for them".
"Where possible I try to avoid the adversarial approach but when matters demand Court intervention then I use my best endeavours to help my clients to stay calmly focused so that the best possible outcome is achieved for my client", she says. "However, I am always mindful of legal costs which can escalate so where possible I seek an amicable settlement (even after litigation has commenced) which saves the parties time, money and stress".
Lavanya is married and her husband works locally in the commercial and residential property markets, and therefore shares a good knowledge of the local market trends.
They have three children, two of whom are at tertiary institutions, and the youngest attends a local school. She says that her family come first and that having her practice locally means that she is able to balance work and family life.
Lavanya is closely associated with the local community having spent many years offering her voluntary services at the Howick Information centre and doing other voluntary work within the local schools.
Lavanya also loves cooking and ballroom and Latin dancing making her a very sociable person.
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