Senior Rotorua lawyer John David Rangitauira is to appeal against his convictions and prison sentence.
Rangitauira was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail when he appeared in the Auckland District Court last month.
He was found guilty in November of four charges of obtaining by deception after a trial in the Rotorua District Court.
The Court of Appeal confirmed Rangitauira has lodged an appeal against the convictions and sentence but no date has yet been set for the hearing.
Rangitauira was duped after agreeing to help a client who got an email purporting to be from a "Central Bank" about a massive inheritance. She promised Rangitauira, who was a senior partner at a Rotorua firm, about $6 million if he helped her secure the cash.
