Qualifications & Admissions
Bachelor of Commerce (UQ).
Bachelor of Laws.
Solicitor, admitted Queensland 1993.
Solicitor, admitted High Court of Australia 1994.
Solicitor, admitted New South Wales 1994.
Barrister & Solicitor, admitted Western Australia 2000.
Barrister, admitted Queensland 2006.
Barrister, admitted High Court of Australia 2006.
Member, Family Law Section, Law Council of Australia.
Developer of Supersolver & Calin software.
SEO & Internet Marketing – Project X Mastermind; Carlton; Kennedy; Deiss; Kern.
Director Lawtech (Aust) Pty Ltd
2006 to 2011
Barrister-at-Law (Brisbane Bar) – accepting instructions in software legal issues, commercial litigation, intellectual property, family law superannuation.
2003 to Present
From January 2003 full-time study of the super-splitting laws which came into effect December 2002, the development of commercial (Supersolver) software which values superannuation interests (used for example by Federal Magistrates Court at Melbourne) and private consulting in respect of valuation of superannuation interests. Presenter, Valuation of Family Law Superannuation Interests, North Queensland Law Association Annual Conference October 2003.
1996 to Present
Director & Computer Programmer/Analyst, Lawtech (Aust) Pty Ltd. Developing software solutions for legal practice. Later, SEO & Internet Marketing & ancilliary fields.
December 1991 to 2003
Solicitor employed in private sector (as articled clerk 1991 – 1993).
November 1987 to November 1991
Self-employed computer programmer.
October 1981 to October 1987
Technical Branch – Australian Taxation Office, Collins Street Melbourne. Tax assessing at all levels. Two years in the commercial litigation section, including “Bottom of the Harbour” schemes. Computer programming special tax assessments not handled by the tax office mainframe.