FAQs
Do you offer General Legal Support?
Our general legal services include:
- Business law, including contracts, disputes, and commercial transactions
- Property law, handling both residential and commercial sales and purchases
- Wills, estates, and succession planning
- Employment law and workplace disputes
- Debt recovery and litigation assistance
- Advice on regulatory compliance and risk management
Can I get help with Conveyancing?
Full List of Services: Selling Property
- Advise on real estate agency agreements (Auction, Exclusive, Open Listing)
- Prepare legally required Contract for Sale in NSW
- Advise on applicable taxes (Capital Gains Tax, GST)
- Address special conditions or specific issues (e.g., Council approvals, encroachments)
- Protect your legal rights
- Obtain Council certificates and Title searches
- Issue Contracts within one business day and monitor progress
- Coordinate mortgage discharge or transfer
- Handle adjustments (rates, taxes, levies)
- Attend settlement, pay outstanding fees, and bank proceeds
- Provide regular updates throughout the process
Full List of Services: Buying Property
- Advise on pre-contract investigations (pest/building reports, surveys, Council records)
- Review and provide legal advice on the Contract for Sale
- Address special conditions (finance, Council approvals, repairs)
- Protect your legal rights
- Investigate property issues
- Assist first home buyers with grants and Stamp Duty concessions
- Handle all Stamp Duty requirements
- Prepare legal documents for Title transfer
- Conduct property searches and enquiries
- Coordinate with banks/lenders for settlement
- Manage final inspections and settlement attendance
- Ensure outstanding rates and taxes are paid
- Notify Council of Title transfer
- Keep you informed throughout
I need to get a will organized. Can you help?
Yes we can help with Wills, Estates, and Powers of Attorney
- Drafting Wills
- Enduring Power of Attorney
- Enduring Guardianship
- Discretionary Testamentary Trusts
- Disability Trusts
- Probate and Estate Administration
- Guardianship Board Applications
- Elder Law
- Succession planning
- Estate planning
- Capital gains tax planning
- Contesting Wills and Family Provision Claims
- Family Trusts
- Notary Public
Do you have experience with businesses and their setup?
Starting a business – guidance on purchasing an existing business, choosing the right business structure, asset protection strategies, insurance law, negotiating commercial leases, and managing risks effectively.
For established businesses – assistance with ownership transitions, resolving shareholder disputes, navigating directors’ duties, employment law, business contracts, and handling commercial litigation such as debt recovery. If you face any legal challenges or disputes, we’re here to help you resolve them and get your business back on track.
Closing or transitioning – support with selling your business, planning for business succession, and addressing potential bankruptcy or insolvency issues if needed.
- Franchises
- Liquor licenses and gaming machines
- Hotels, motels and restaurants
- Partnerships and Trusts
- Capital gains tax, GST and negative gearing
- Professional practices, including accounting, medical and finance
- Rural properties, farms, agriculture
- Notary Public
What about personal injury law and compensation?
Yes, we have many years experience with:
- Workers compensation claims including Workers Compensation Commission
- Motor vehicle accidents including Motor Accident Authority
- Public liability
- Insurance claims
- Litigation and Local, District, Supreme and Federal Courts
- Inability to perform one’s usual work duties, domestic duties as a result of injury.
We need help with Farming and Agricultural legal support
- Succession planning to preserve farms for future generations.
- Applications for licenses and permits
- Labour and employment laws
- Providing advice regarding environmental legislation and landowner rights
- Assisting in avoiding fraud and deception in packaging and labelling of products
- Protecting your business from urban sprawl and activists
- Negotiating with various stakeholders
- Buying and selling rural properties
- Negotiating with mining companies, wind farm operators and government agencies
- Preparation of business contracts, leases, partnership agreements, companies and trusts
- Rural residential subdivision
- Water and irrigation licenses and transfers
What areas do you cover?
Our office is in Lismore NSW but we can provide experienced and professional legal support for all of NSW and QLD. With over 30 years experience, you can be confident of quality legal advise.
- Lismore
- Northern Rivers
- Bangalow
- Ballina
- Byron Bay
- Kyogle
- Casino
- NSW
- QLD
Do you offer Notary services?
Yes we do.
A Notary Public in New South Wales is a senior legal practitioner with specialized qualifications to authenticate, attest, verify, witness, and certify a wide range of legal documents for international use. Their services include the preparation and certification of documents like affidavits, powers of attorney, contracts, and more, ensuring compliance with both local and international legal standards.