A half-day CPD conference on conflict and independence in estate planning, run by The Law Association of New Zealand (formerly ADLS) at its Vero Centre offices in Auckland on 30 July 2026, with a livestream option.
The Estate Planning Conference 2026 - Conflict and Independence returns to Auckland on 30 July 2026, gathering senior practitioners for a half-day of practical sessions on what happens when estates, trusts and family interests collide. The main programme runs from 12:30pm to 5:00pm, with registration, lunch and networking from 11:30am and drinks and canapes closing the day between 5:00pm and 6:00pm. A livestream option runs in parallel for those who cannot attend in person.
The conference is organised by The Law Association of New Zealand (TLANZ), the professional body formerly known as the Auckland District Law Society (ADLS), which rebranded in 2024. TLANZ is one of the country's long-standing legal member organisations and a prolific provider of continuing professional development, running a year-round CPD calendar, an on-demand library and regular conferences for the profession. This event follows what the Association describes as a very successful 2025 Estate Planning Conference and carries 4.00 CPD hours.
The Association aims the conference at property, trust and private client lawyers, family lawyers, litigators, and others involved in estate planning, disputes or administration. The programme unpacks conflict and independence across sessions including "Who is my Client? Unpacking the conflicts," S21 agreements and asset planning, planning for conflict, caveats against probate, advising on claims by estates, and EPOAs - bookended by two panel discussions drawing on real case examples. The panel is chaired by Rebecca Steens (Partner, Holland Beckett) and features Amanda Bedford (Director, McCaw Lewis), Bethan Read (Special Counsel, Morris), Mary Rozeboom (Senior Legal Counsel, Perpetual Guardian), Henry Stokes (fiduciary expert and former Group General Counsel of Perpetual Guardian) and Emma Tonkin (Partner, Hesketh Henry).
The in-person sessions are held at The Law Association's own premises on Level 18 of the Vero Centre, 48 Shortland Street, in Auckland's central legal and financial district. This is the Association's home base rather than a dedicated convention venue, and its city-centre location keeps the event close to the CBD firms and chambers most of its delegates work from.
Association-run CPD conferences like this are a steady, recurring pillar of New Zealand's business-events calendar: professional-body content that reliably fills mid-sized city-centre meeting space, draws a national practitioner audience, and increasingly runs hybrid with a livestream tier alongside the in-room experience. For Auckland's MICE sector, TLANZ's ongoing programme of sector conferences represents dependable, high-value weekday demand anchored in the CBD.
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