Alice Carter
Barrister, Victorian Bar
Alice has practised as a family law solicitor since her admission to practice in 1996. She has extensive experience with respect to family law and related matters, including defacto & same-sex matters, children's matters & intervention orders. She is an experienced advocate, having undertaken considerable appearance work as a solicitor.
Bastian Gasser
Minter Ellison
Bastian is a specialist GST advisor with almost a decade in dedicated practice. His expert advisory spans transaction structuring, GST compliance reviews, input tax credit recovery, GST audits, investigations and objections, and cross-border transactions.
Chris Molnar
McKean Park Lawyers
Chris saw his opportunity to join McKean Park Lawyers as a partner and Accredited Specialist in Workplace Relations in 2008 as a career move that will increase the scope and size of his Industrial Relations and Employment Law practice, while complementing the strong business oriented team at McKean Park.
David Davis
David Davis & Associates
As a Principal of David Davis & Associates, David is involved in all aspects of estate and business succession planning, estate administration and estate litigation, including the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal, VCAT and the Victorian Supreme Court.
David Turner
Barrister, Victorian Bar
David has more than 20 years broad experience in commercial matters gained in private practice and in the corporate environment. David teaches Personal Property Securities Law in the Monash University LLM programme.
Diana Price
Barrister, Victorian Bar
Diana was formerly a prosecutor with the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions and is now a criminal lawyer with Victoria Legal Aid. Diana continues to practice criminal law as well as administrative law and has appeared in all courts and tribunals.
Donna Cooper
Law Institute of Victoria
Donna Cooper is the Manager of the LIV’s Ethics Department and has experience in private practice as well as government, and is Secretary to the LIV Ethics Committee
Eugene Astuto
Astuto Lawyers
Eugene has experience working in various firms throughout Melbourne over 13 years, and has developed a sense of commercial and personal awareness that continues to drive the growth of his law practice. He is currently completing a Master of Computer Science at RMIT University and he is always looking for new opportunities for technology to enhance the practice of law, not just to promote efficiency but to generate new opportunities for lawyers.
Grevis Beard
Worklogic Consulting
Grevis is an accredited mediator, and skilled investigator and trainer. He brings a balanced, interpersonal approach to conflict resolution with experience working both locally and internationally in complaint resolution and discrimination.
Jacky Campbell
Forte Family Lawyers
Jacky has been working in family law for over 20 years. She has been Accredited as a Specialist in Family Law since 1991 and is a trained collaborative lawyer. Jacky received the Law Institute of Victoria Rogers Legal Writing Award 2004 - for the article "Splitting the Super … and Selling the Home."
James McKay
Barrister, Victorian Bar
James has a general commercial practice with an emphasis on real property, contractual disputes, equity, and trade practices. He appears in the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Federal Court of Australia, as well as the inferior Courts and the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Josh Bornstein
Principal, Maurice Blackburn
Josh has advised a wide range of employees throughout Australia together with expatriate executives based in Asia and Europe. His clients have included banking, financial services and telecommunications executives, media professionals, wharfies, the Melbourne City Council, many trade unions and an ASX listed company. Josh manages the firm's national Employment & Industrial Law practice.
Kathy Wilson
Aitken Partners
Kathy is an accredited specialist in Wills and Estates and also an Accredited Mediator. She has worked almost exclusively in the area of Succession Planning, Wills and Estates for 20 years. She is an advocate of alternative dispute resolution and the application of collaborative law when appropriate.
Justice Kirsty MacMillan
Family Court of Australia
Practised as a Family Law Solicitor with Snyder & Fulford for four years prior to signing the Bar Roll. Now practises exclusively in Family Law.
Matthew Harvey
Barrister, Victorian Bar and Certified Family Law Arbitrator
Matthew practises in commercial, corporations and insolvency, and maritime matters. He appears regularly in the Supreme Court, Federal Court and Court of Appeal and has appeared on a number of occasions in the High Court and the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He appears regularly in international and domestic arbitrations.
Michael Dolan
Law Institute of Victoria
Michael is an Ethics Lawyer in the LIV’s Ethics Department and has had a long career in the law, and now enjoys providing ethical advice to solicitors.
Nussen Ainsworth
Brand Partners Commercial Lawyers
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Paddy Oliver
Lexcel
Patrick is a consultant and lawyer with over 20 years’ experience advising law firms and financial services organisations in Australia, the UK and Ireland on strategy, governance, practice management and risk management. Patrick is the founder and Managing Director of Lexcel law practice.
Dr Philip Bender
Barrister, Victorian Bar
As a barrister, Philip has been involved in various commercial disputes and appearance work in Federal and State Courts, as well as in VCAT and the AAT. He has been involved in a number of contractual, property law/equity, and deceased estates disputes in the Supreme and County Court jurisdictions and in VCAT. He has also run intellectual property and trade practices litigation in the Federal Court.
Dr Rebecca Leshinsky
Barrister & Lecturer Swinburne University of Technology
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Reynah Tang
Partner, Melbourne, Corrs and President Elect of the Law institute of Victoria
Reynah commenced his career with Corrs as an articled clerk from 1993 to 1994. After a couple of years working for an international accounting firm in Singapore he returned to Corrs in 1996. Since then, he has been practising in the Corporate division specialising in all areas of corporate taxation.
His practice includes advising on tax issues associated with listed and unlisted mergers and acquisitions, public private partnerships, corporate reorganisations, property development, employee share and option schemes, and debt capital market raisings.
He has assisted clients with requests for private binding and class tax rulings, taxation enquiries and audits and federal and state tax litigation. In addition to income tax, Reynah regularly advises clients on GST and stamp duty issues associated with these transactions.
Reynah became a partner of Corrs in 2000. He completed his Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne in 2001. His thesis concerned the scope of judicial review and other remedies to control the exercise of powers by the Commissioner of Taxation.
Reynah regularly publishes articles and presents seminars on tax issues and, in January 2008, was elected to the Council of the Law Institute of Victoria.
Sharon Johns
Barrister, Victorian Bar
Sharon (BA, LL.B) was admitted to practice in 1992 and signed the Bar Roll in 1998. Sharon has specialised in the practice of family law since her admission and practices in the family law jurisdiction (including de facto matters), appearing in pre-trial applications, trials and appeals.
Shelley Dunstone
Legal Circles
Shelley qualified as a lawyer in 1981. She has been a partner of a commercial law firm, and her expertise also spans training, recruiting, marketing and career mentoring. In 2001 she established her consulting practice, Legal Circles, which helps lawyers to have better businesses and more satisfying careers. Shelley presents throughout Australia and internationally.
Stephen Jurica
Barrister, Victorian Bar
Stephen practices principally in common law and commercial litigation. Prior to coming to the Bar, Stephen practiced law in London in the Real Estate Finance team at DLA Piper LLP and the International Capital Markets group at Allen & Overy LLP. Stephen regularly appears in trials with senior counsel and accepts briefs Commercial Law, Personal Injury, Property, Building and Construction, Negligence, Criminal Law and Sports law. Stephen is a LEADR accredited mediator.
Tim Falkiner
Tim is a former barrister retraining as a psychotherapist completing a Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling (Phoenix), a Certificate IV in Hypnotherapy (AHS) and a Diploma of Ego State Therapy. Tim is a member of the Australian Counselling Association. Tim believes the life crisis faced by offenders facing sentencing can be used, with the help of transpersonal and hypnotic techniques, to rapidly enable the willing offender to access the feelings and emotions necessary to effect fundamental, life-long growth.
Tim McFarlane
McFarlane Legal
Tim has written and presented extensively on alternative dispute resolution with strong emphasis on mediation, both locally and interstate. He also conducts private training and coaching in mediation training courses for law firms, universities, LEADR and Global Mediation Services Ltd in Malaysia and Hong Kong. He was also sub-editor and a contributor for “Mediation – A Guide for Victorian Solicitors”, a manual published by the Law Institute of Victoria.