Your Legal is a Christchurch-based property law firm, trading as Corcoran Law Office Limited, with a second office in Rangiora. The practice focuses solely on residential property transactions — buying, selling, refinancing and bidding at auction — rather than general legal work.
The firm has a family legal legacy: director Anthony Corcoran is a third-generation lawyer, following his father Robin and grandfather Ed, both prominent Canterbury legal practitioners. Anthony is accredited as a Property Law specialist with the New Zealand Law Society's Property Law Section. He leads the practice alongside fellow director Donna, an experienced lawyer with particular expertise in property matters, including earthquake-related claims work for the Community Trust following the Christchurch earthquakes. The wider Christchurch team includes Legal Executive Lois and Senior Registered Legal Executives Rachel and Robin, while the Rangiora office is led by director Roger Brown alongside Bridget Allison.
Your Legal has also built its own Property Tracker technology, giving clients (and their real estate agent) a login to follow each stage of their transaction, with email and SMS notifications as steps are completed — aimed at making the legal side of a property purchase easier to follow without having to chase updates by phone.
When Anthony Corcoran talks about property law being "in the blood," he means it literally. He's a third-generation lawyer — his father Robin and grandfather Ed were both well-known Canterbury legal practitioners before him. That family legacy is the foundation of Your Legal, the Christchurch firm (trading name of Corcoran Law Office Limited) that Anthony founded with a single focus: residential property law.
Rather than being general practitioners who also handle property work, Your Legal deliberately does only property law. The firm positions this as an advantage — when a client is making what's likely the biggest financial commitment of their life, they're dealing with a team that has, in the firm's words, "seen it all" on the property side specifically. Anthony himself is accredited as a Property Law specialist through the New Zealand Law Society's Property Law Section.
Anthony leads the practice alongside fellow director Donna, an experienced lawyer who ran her own Christchurch practices before joining Your Legal, and who has spent years since the Canterbury earthquakes helping claimants work through earthquake-related issues via the Community Trust — work she continues alongside her role at the firm.
The rest of the Christchurch team includes Lois, a Registered Legal Executive and Fellow of the NZ Institute of Legal Executives known for a calm, reassuring approach with clients, and two Senior Registered Legal Executives: Rachel, who has worked in law firms in London, Auckland and Canterbury and spends her spare time training for powerlifting competitions, and Robin, who relocated from Queenstown to Christchurch in 2024 and has a particular focus on guiding first-home buyers through the process. The firm's Rangiora office is led by director Roger Brown, alongside Bridget Allison.
Your Legal's work covers the full range of residential property transactions: buying, selling, refinancing, and bidding at auction, each with its own dedicated information pack so clients know what to expect going in. For first-home buyers, the firm also handles KiwiSaver documentation, one of the more confusing parts of a first purchase.
What sets the firm apart operationally is its own Property Tracker technology. Rather than clients having to phone their lawyer to ask "where are we up to," Your Legal gives each client a login where they can see the stages of their transaction as they're completed. The login can also be shared with a client's real estate agent, so everyone involved in the deal is working from the same information. As key conditions are cleared, clients get notified automatically by both email and SMS — removing a lot of the guesswork that usually comes with waiting to go unconditional on a property.
Your Legal operates from Christchurch and Rangiora, and the team is reachable by phone on 03 365 1878 or by email at [email protected]. The firm also maintains a dedicated FAQ page addressing the legal jargon and process questions that come up most often during a property transaction, and a preferred suppliers list for clients who need related services like real estate agents, mortgage advisers or building inspectors during their purchase or sale.
For anyone buying, selling or refinancing a home in Christchurch or North Canterbury, Your Legal's pitch is straightforward: property law is the only thing they do, and their own tracking technology means clients aren't left wondering what's happening behind the scenes while their transaction moves through to settlement.