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Practice areas

Every listing is filed under the areas of law the firm’s own public pages state for that practitioner.

A practice area page lists the practitioners filed under it, alphabetically. It is not a ranking and it is not a recommendation: nobody on this site is ordered above anyone else.

An area with no listings yet shows an empty state rather than a filled one. This directory is new, and a page that invented entries to look established would be worthless the moment you tried to ring one of them.

Areas in this directory

  • Building & Construction 286 listings Building and construction law covers the contracts, regulation and disputes that arise when homes, apartments and commercial projects are designed and built. In New South Wales that includes…
  • Business, Commercial & Corporate 880 listings Business and commercial law deals with how a business is set up, run, sold and, sometimes, wound up. Typical work includes choosing between a company, trust or partnership,…
  • Civil Litigation 851 listings Civil litigation is the process of resolving private disputes through the courts, as opposed to criminal prosecutions. It covers claims for unpaid debts, breach of contract, negligence, property…
  • Commercial Litigation 61 listings Commercial litigation concerns disputes between businesses, or between businesses and their owners, directors, investors and regulators. Typical matters include breach of contract, shareholder and director disputes, oppression claims…
  • Criminal Defence 353 listings Criminal law covers offences created by the Crimes Act 1900, the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985, the Road Transport Act 2013 and many other statutes, together with…
  • Cyberlaw & Internet 31 listings Cyberlaw and internet law applies established legal rules to online activity. In Australia it spans privacy and data protection under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian…
  • Employment 177 listings Employment law governs the relationship between employers and workers, from the employment contract through to termination. Most private-sector employees in New South Wales are covered by the Fair…
  • Family & Relationships 329 listings Family law covers the legal consequences of separation and relationship breakdown. It includes divorce, parenting arrangements for children, property settlement between married and de facto couples, spousal maintenance,…
  • Finance, Tax, Debt & Bankruptcy 391 listings This area covers the legal side of money problems and money disputes. It includes tax audits and disputes with the Australian Taxation Office, debt recovery and defending claims…
  • General Practice 32 listings A general practice firm handles a range of everyday legal matters rather than a single specialty. Typical work includes buying and selling property, wills and powers of attorney,…
  • Immigration 35 listings Immigration law governs who may enter, stay and work in Australia. It is mostly federal, set by the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) and the Migration Regulations 1994, and…
  • Intellectual Property 116 listings Intellectual property law protects creations and brands. In Australia the main rights are trade marks under the Trade Marks Act 1995, patents under the Patents Act 1990, registered…
  • Personal Injury 387 listings Compensation and injury law covers claims for harm caused by an accident, a workplace injury, medical treatment or another person's negligence, together with disputes over insurance policies. In…
  • Power of Attorney 9 listings A power of attorney is a document by which one person, the principal, authorises another, the attorney, to make financial or legal decisions on their behalf. In New…
  • Real Estate & Conveyancing 328 listings Real estate law covers dealings in land and property, and conveyancing is the legal process of transferring ownership. In New South Wales this involves the Conveyancing Act 1919,…
  • Traffic 3 listings Traffic law covers offences and penalties arising from driving and the use of roads in New South Wales. The main legislation is the Road Transport Act 2013 and…
  • Wills & Estates 214 listings Wills and estates law covers planning what happens to a person's property after death and administering it when they die. In New South Wales it is governed mainly…

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How an area is decided

Areas come from the firm’s own public pages for that practitioner. Where a page describes work that it does not state as a practice area, it is recorded as free text rather than filed as one.

Areas are not self-service. A change to a published listing is read against the source page before it takes effect.

What an area page does not tell you

That someone is currently entitled to practise. Entitlement changes, and this directory records what a public page said on a date, not what is true today.

  • Check the public register kept by the Law Society of New South Wales before you engage anyone.
  • A listing is not a referral, an endorsement or a measure of competence.
  • Where a listing is paid for it carries a Sponsored label, and that label never changes where the listing appears in a result.

Official sources

  1. Law Society of New South Wales
  2. Office of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW)