I lead the Deceased Estates and Personal Wealth Legacy Team here at Solari & Stock lawyers.

I specialise in working with complex high net worth clients assisting them with their estate planning objectives including business succession planning, complex estate administration and estate litigation. This means that I work with clients who have business and/or trust structures, high value investments or assets, blended families and generational wealth. I also act for plaintiffs and defendants in estate litigation, which can either result from my client/s not receiving adequate provision in the Will, or there being something wrong with the Will itself.

I have also acted for grouped clients (similar to a class action) in litigation regarding the mismanagement and loss of investment funds against a financial advisor or other connected entities, especially where those funds came from superannuation or business structures.

In 2022, I studied my Master of Applied Laws and completed the required four units to join the prestigious worldwide society of trusts and estates practitioners in 2023. This appointment means I can be appointed as an independent administrator during estate litigation or administration, and I am considered an expert in my field.

I originally qualified in the UK having completed my Bachelor of Law (Honors) at the University of Lincoln in 2008, and my Legal Practice Course at the College of Law London in 2009. I was admitted to the High Court of England & Wales in June 2012.

I worked for rural firms between 2012 and 2015 acting for large rural clients in succession planning and estate administration. I moved to Sydney in 2016 with my husband and young family, and I completed my Legal Practitioners Admission Board Diploma in Law at the University of Sydney in 2020. I was admitted to the NSW Supreme Court in August 2020 and to the High Court of Australia in September 2020.

Outside of work I enjoy sampling the wineries of the Southern Highlands and Mudgee, hanging out with my husband and two young children, and I can occasionally be found in the gym powerlifting. Little known fact, deadlifting is by far my most favourite. I have also been known to make the odd dad joke now and then.

When I am asked why am I lawyer? It is something I was meant to do. I can still remember the exact day I decided that practising law was who I was meant to be. Growing up, I was surrounded by a mix of people; some law abiding, some not. When I was 17, I knew that I needed to make a choice about my future, and as I watched the people I had grown up with becoming more and more unrecognisable, I decided I needed to be on the right side, and fight the good fight. The reason I specialised in succession law, was solely down to one man: my university lecturer, Brian Coggon. He made the subject come alive; it was hard, technical, old law. But his love for it was contagious and that has never left me.