OUR PEOPLE
The People's Solicitors is a multi-disciplinary firm, as our practitioners have secondary skills and extensive former careers at senior and directorship levels. We are also accountants, real estate advisers, financiers, engineers, public relations consultants, medical administrators and capital advisors. Our people are engaged not only for their legal skills but also on their communication skills and their ability to develop workable solutions. We supervise and train a number of solicitors who are initially hired on a volunteer basis.
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Solicitor-Director. The Honorable Jeffrey William Shaw QC has had an extensive career in the legal profession, with expertise in key areas of the law. He served as the Attorney General of the State of NSW as well as the NSW Minister of Industrial Relations from 1995 to 2000. He then served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW from 2003 to 2004. A graduate in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney with a High Distinction in Labor Law and Jurisprudence, Jeff Shaw has since returned to the same university to be a part time lecturer on Employment Law. He has also been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Technology Sydney and a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales. He was a Deputy Chairman at New South Wales Law Reform Commission and a member of the Legal Aid Commission's Panel on Appellate Criminal Law. Jeff has been a practicing Queens Counsel since 1986 and continues to hold this position. |
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Director. Kingsley Liu has a wide background in commercial transactions, investment banking and engineering. He was the CEO of Auspac Securities Ltd, which carried out capital raisings and listings. He was the former CEO of Sun Hung Kai Securities in UK, and chief investment manager in Arbuthnot Latham Asia. He was alsoinvolved in the restructure of Hutchinson Whampoa's engineering interests in Hong Kong. |
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Director. Janice Gounder has a background in political science/sociology and law. She is also a migration agent and has worked in diplomatic, government institutions and trade unions. Her expertise is in administrative law and advocacy. She has an M A in Sociology. |
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Your Diverse legal team |
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We have solicitors (practicing certificates) and graduate solicitors who have helped us with our work. They come from a range of varying backgrounds including students-at-law. Nearly all speak a second language. All have contributed extensively to the systems development of the firm and helped in building the operations manual and our unique client matter control list. |
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Most have other qualifications in accounting, psychology, business, arts, engineering, nursing and social science. Some are part-time as they have parallel careers that span from corporate finance, business consultants, real estate. |
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external advisory team |
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We work closely with an external advisory team that includes the following: Lewis Marks Pandelis Tsomis Dr. Yola Lucire |
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