I am co-founder and Principal Lawyer of LAWYAL Solicitors, an incorporated legal practice that offers quality and affordable legal advice for Australian financial institutions, companies and small-to-medium enterprises. LAWYAL Solicitors offers legal services in the following areas: banking and finance, consumer credit and mortgage lending, privacy and AML, trade practices and unfair contract terms, intellectual property and trade marks, business and commercial, regulatory reform and compliance, contract and aspects of the Corporations Act.LAWYAL has developed a comprehensive website with full functionality that will make engaging with us even easier. By creating a virtual law firm, we are able to reduce unnecessary process and overheads, while still maintaining the highest standard of personalised, dependable and friendly legal advice. Visit us at www.lawyal.com.au

My husband Craig Chapman and I believe innovation and change within the legal industry will be driven by client needs and demands, and technology. We created Law Fluent to allow clients to create their own advisor hubs where multiple external service providers can engage with them, creating a single access point for clients to all their advisors. Originally developed in July 2013 for our own virtual law firm, LAWyal Solicitors, one of the first firms to operate entirely online in Australia, Law Fluent was built to manage legal matters, tasks, remote working lawyers and practice expertise all online, and to communicate with our clients through the app. Given the success of both LAWyal Solicitors and our platform, and the increase in ‘New Law’ models in Australia, the legal industry was crying out for an innovative software solution, and Law Fluent is here to cater for that need.

I was senior in-house lawyer supporting Macquarie's Banking and Financial Services Division ('BFS') for six years, including the Mortgages Australia, Private Bank and Coin Software businesses, and introducing consumer credit and privacy regulatory reform into the wider BFS. My experience extends to consumer credit, contract, trade practices and fair trading, privacy, intellectual property, trade marks, corporations law, financial services and securitisation, with a main focus on the regulation and compliance for banking and financial institutions. Being in-house counsel for Macquarie has ensured my advice is delivered with the highest degree of quality and commerciality.

As Corporate Counsel of Bluestone, my advices centred around the then Uniform Consumer Credit Code, Privacy Act, Contracts Review Act, Trade Practices Act, Spam Act, Banking Codes of Practice, securitisation and legal support to all Bluestone departments – sales, marketing, lending, settlements, servicing, discharges, collections, projects, IT, HR, Corporate Affairs and Executive.