Helping New Zealand law firms and employers save time, reduce costs, and stay ahead of a rapidly changing legal and technological landscape.
Lex Praxis was founded by Melt Strydom — a former barrister with more than 20 years of frontline legal experience across South Africa and New Zealand, with employment law at the core throughout. After watching law firms struggle to separate the AI hype from the AI reality, he built something different: a consultancy that starts with the law and works backwards to the tools.
The result is practical AI guidance that your lawyers will actually trust — because it comes from someone who has sat across the table from the ERA, drafted the agreements, and fought the personal grievances.
About Melt →— Melt Strydom, Principal
Every AI tool we recommend, every workflow we build, every prompt we write is grounded in how NZ employment law actually works — not how we hope it might.
The workshop programme is built entirely around real NZ employment law scenarios — warning letters, ERA determinations, redundancy processes, personal grievances. No generic AI theory.
We combine employment law, HSWA psychosocial duties, and responsible AI use — a niche not currently represented in NZ's AI advisory landscape.
Understand your AI exposure before it becomes a liability.
Most organisations are already using AI — in hiring, performance management, investigations, even decisions about restructuring. Few know exactly where, how, or what that means under New Zealand employment law.
The AI Employment Risk Audit gives you that clarity. In 3–5 days, we map your current or intended AI use against your actual obligations under the Employment Relations Act, Privacy Act, and Health and Safety at Work Act. You get a graded risk assessment, a one-page summary with recommended next steps, and the confidence that you know where you stand.
Schedule a Consultation →New Zealand legal professionals lead the world in daily AI adoption. They also face the highest verification and trust concerns of any market surveyed globally. This free checklist identifies where the gap between adoption and accountability tends to appear first — grounded in NZ case law and the LEAP Profitability in Law: Global Report 2026.
Takes five minutes. No follow-up sequence.
Get the free checklist →Whether you're a law firm looking to upskill your team or an employer navigating an Employment Relations challenge, we'd like to hear from you.
Start the Conversation → Book a Discovery Call