Experience

knowmore Legal Service

• Australia
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lawyer

  • Aug 2018 - Present

  Part-time not-for-profit lawyer- assisting clients with applications for redress or providing advice on other legal options and support services that may be available to them. In addition to engaging in community outreach work and contributing to submissions for law reform.



Uniting Church in Australia Queensland Synod

• Legal Counsel

  • May 2016 - Sep 2017

  The primary focus of this role is providing advice and representation with respect to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It also involves advising on the development and implementation of interim redress and providing day-to-day legal advice on an array of matters, including but not limited to, employment, estate and contractual matters.



wheldon and associates

• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Solicitor

  • May 2015 - May 2016

  As a general civil litigation position, this involved running matters in various jurisdictions, including the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal and Queensland’s Magistrates’, District and Supreme Courts, as well as, the Fair Work Commission and Federal Court of Australia. It involved preparing pleadings and other court documents and either appearing or briefing counsel to appear. Occasionally this role involved drafting commercial and employment contracts.



Hall Payne Lawyers

• Australia
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Solicitor

  • Nov 2010 - May 2015

  This role principally involved developing a litigation practice in insurance, administration, employment and family law areas. The first year of my practice was spent preparing a matter for a hearing in the Court of Appeal and subsequently, High Court. From 2013, it also involved managing the firm’s administrative law and superannuation practices and supervising two staff in each area while maintaining my insurance practice. This involved working on matters in a range of jurisdictions, as well as representing clients in alternative dispute resolution forums.