I was the senior lawyer managing the Commercial and Succession Planning team giving advice and assistance to businesses and large enterprises. I managed and guided businesses through the various legal issues they faced with care and skill and a minimum of fuss. My strong commercial acumen means that I fully appreciate that there is often a legal answer and a commercial answer and businesses base their decisions on a blend of the two. I managed business transactions such as sales and purchases, negotiated with other parties on behalf of the businesses I represented, undertook assessment of risk and put in place practical mechanisms to minimise that risk and deal with legal issues which may arise. My areas of expertise included succession planning and implementation of documentation to protect businesses through growth and succession phases, strategic business structuring, self managed superannuation fund advice and documentation, insolvency, franchising, intellectual property advice, licensing and registration of trade marks, purchase and sale of businesses, advising on employment law and contracts, commercial leasing, preparing terms and conditions and supply agreements, privacy policies, competition and consumer law advice and all other commercial advice.

I was the firm's dedicated Business and Commercial Lawyer giving advice and assistance to small businesses all the way through to large enterprises.My areas of expertise included legal advice for business owners, purchase and sale of businesses, commercial leasing, partnership and shareholders agreements, preparing terms and conditions and supply agreements, succession planning and advising on business structuring including franchising, establishing and varying trusts, intellectual property advice and registration of trade marks, privacy law advice, competition and consumer law advice, advising on, establishing and varying self managed superannuation funds, various property transactions and all other commercial advice.My strong background in property law continued to interact with the work I completed for these businesses.

Property, Commercial & Finance TeamIn this mid sized firm, I worked in a small team which specialised in residential conveyancing (ACT and NSW) and large unit developments.

Criminal LawOver a period of time spanning close to 3 years, I worked in client services focused roles in the grants department and as a paralegal in the criminal law team. As my role developed, I worked on bail applications and instructing barristers at trial.

In this role, I worked as the firm's receptionist and assisted with residential conveyancing and large subdivision work.