Matthies Lawyers is a boutique South Yarra legal practice with a focus on Family Law and Estate Planning. We help clients avoid and resolve conflict in both personal and business relationships, through negotiation, mediation and via the court system where required. The firm draws upon many years of experience representing corporate and individual clients across all jurisdictions. Its’ principal James Matthies has been admitted to practice and assisting clients in Melbourne, Australia since 2006.We provide personalised advice and service and our size means you have the benefit of the same lawyers dealing with your matter from start to finish. You will find us friendly and straightforward to deal with. We undertake to keep you regularly updated about the progress of your matter. Matthies Lawyers will give you forthright and direct advice so that you know where you stand, and we are ably assisted by our network of Legal Counsel and financial experts when required.

Keogh & Co. are a small general practice where James' practice focused on commercial advice, family law, commercial litigation, and insolvency. James instructed James Gorton QC and Peter Caillard of Counsel in a successful appeal to the Supreme Court of Victoria's Court of Appeal in the matter of Connellan v Murphy [2017] VSCA 116, which resulted in a permanent stay of proceedings in favour of our client.The full decision by three judges sitting in the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court can be accessed by the link below:

Lawyer at DSA Law, with a practice focused on planning law, insolvency and commercial litigation, as well as property and probate law.

Senior Legal Advisor dealing with property law, business development and referral partner training within lawlab. Lawlab is a start up that delivers streamlined, fixed fee business to business and business to client conveyancing and legal services. Its' streamlined processing centre has supported lawlab’s national high volume conveyancing business in delivering nearly $3 billion of conveyancing transactions.

Litigation Lawyer at Aitken Partners (incorporating John Matthies & Co. Lawyers from May 2011). James' key practice areas included back end mortgage work (Supreme Court loan recovery proceedings), commercial litigation, bankruptcy & insolvency, and competition and consumer law. James' clients included Victorian Mortgage Investments Limited, JR Finance and La Trobe Financial. Experienced in dealing with insolvency matters including sole responsibility for litigation for possession of mortgaged properties and winding up applications, as well as negotiations around mortgage re-financing and dealing with regulatory bodies such as the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Small Business Commissioner. Experienced in alternative dispute resolution including negotiation and mediation between stakeholders.

Employed as a Lawyer working in all areas of the firm's practice, including Commercial & Civil Litigation, Family Law, Criminal Law, Traffic Law, VOCAT, Property Law, Conveyancing, and Bankruptcy & Insolvency.

Articled Clerk to Warwick Teasdale. Completed 4 rotations in the firm's main practice areas of Family Law, Commercial and Civil Litigation, Wills & Probate and Insolvency and Debt Recovery/Business Law.