Robbie Bryant

Robbie Bryant

Senior Associate

Robbie is a Senior Associate and is the firm’s employment law specialist. Robbie is primarily based in our Wanaka office but also works across the Queenstown office.

Robbie is skilled in advising clients on a full range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. He has advised start-up businesses through to some of New Zealand’s leading public and private sector organisations, including not-for-profit organisations. Robbie also advises employees at all levels including senior managers and executives.

Robbie’s expertise includes navigating the strategic and commercial challenges facing employers. He works alongside businesses to provide practical solutions to employment issues from complex restructuring and implementing workplace change, to day-to-day employment relations management and the processes that come with this.

An experienced litigator, Robbie represents clients in the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court, and he has made appearances in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Robbie is regularly asked to appear for clients in mediations and has also appeared before the ACC Review Authority and Human Rights Commission.  Robbie also has experience in conducting external investigations and mediating disputes.      

Employment law is incredibly varied, with Robbie’s significant experience in the field he regularly advises on the full suite of employment matters, including; pursuing and defending personal grievance and other claims; enforcement of restraints of trade; workplace change including redundancy and restructuring; internal and external investigations; termination of employment - misconduct, medical incapacity, abandonment of employment; exiting senior staff; labour inspectorate investigations; Holidays Act matters; employment agreements and associated policies.

Robbie enjoys working closely with businesses and is passionate in educating clients by providing advice that will help their business develop.

Before joining TODD & WALKER Law, Robbie spent the first 10 years of his career working in Auckland in Chancery Chambers as an employed barrister specialising in employment law and then worked for a leading boutique employment law firm before making the move to the South Island in 2020 to call Wanaka home.

Robbie has presented seminars on many employment law matters for LegalWise and EMA and has contributed to drafting employment law papers for a tertiary institution.

Outside of the office Robbie is an avid skier in winter and enjoys paddleboarding, mountain biking and hiking in the summer.