Lawyer · Mediator · Mentor
From root to resolution, across borders.
- For people in the middle of a conflict
- For founders shaping their business strategy
- For aspiring lawyers who want a guide
One perspective, drawn from a life across four countries.
Let's find the way forward.
You don't have to figure it out alone. Whether you're building a business, working through a conflict, or finding your way in law, I'm here to help you through it.
About
Behind every enquiry is a person, a real problem, and a resolution I've been trained to find.
I mediate disputes, advise founders, and mentor the next generation of lawyers wherever they are on their legal journey, and I do all of it the same way: by getting underneath the enquiry to the person it belongs to.
My life has crossed four countries and three continents, and exploring life and business between languages, cultures, and legal systems taught me to read a room the way I was later trained to read a case: from every angle, zooming out for the whole picture and then moving into the detail, for what is really going on beneath the words. Find the person, understand the real problem, and the resolution usually follows.
Every choice since has pointed the same way. I studied philosophy at UBC because I wanted to understand how people reason and where their certainties come from; a Master of Management, because ideas mean little until you can build something with them; and law at Melbourne, because I wanted the framework to act on them. Somewhere in there I qualified as an IMI mediator, which is where all of it comes together.
“I'd rather understand the real need beneath a demand than win the argument on the surface.”
How I think
Start beneath the surface
People argue over positions, but what really moves a situation is the interest underneath. I look for the need behind what's being said.
Across borders, not around them
Having lived on three continents, I treat cultural and legal difference as something to bridge rather than avoid.
The person before the problem
Every dispute, deal, and decision is made by people. I start there, and let the strategy follow.
Credentials
Education
Qualifications
Let's find the real question beneath yours.
Whether you're building a company, standing in the middle of a dispute, or starting the long road into law, there's a door here for you.
For Businesses & Founders
Build it, protect it, grow it.
Strategy for founders and businesses operating across borders, drawing on legal training, management study, and the lived experience of building across four different markets. This is the proactive side of the work: everything you put in place before a dispute, so that fewer disputes ever arrive.
Business legal strategy
The structural thinking behind a resilient venture: how you set it up, what you protect, and where cross-border complexity tends to hide. The goal is to anticipate risk rather than react to it.
- Structuring and protecting the venture
- Contracts, relationships & risk mapping
- Cross-border considerations across markets
Startup strategy & coaching
For founders at the very beginning. A thinking partner who has studied how businesses are built and lived it across three continents, here to help you make sharper decisions sooner.
- From idea to structured, fundable venture
- Decision-making & founder clarity
- Growth, resilience & the long game
Strong ventures are built by design.
Let's build the structure that protects what you're creating and lets it grow.
Aspiring Lawyers
From the LSAT to the Bar.
The whole journey into law, from someone who has walked it: the LSAT (twice), a Melbourne law degree, admission in NSW, and now preparing for the California Bar. There are free resources to get you moving, and one-on-one coaching for when you want a guide beside you.
Three stages, one path
Getting in
The LSAT and law-school admissions, including honest, been-there guidance on retakes.
- LSAT study strategy & resources
- Retake planning (I sat it twice)
- Application & admissions guidance
Getting through
Surviving and thriving in law school, with the study systems and mindset that actually hold up.
- Study systems & time management
- Exam technique & workload
- Staying human through the degree
Getting admitted
Across two systems: US Bar preparation, which I'm living right now, and Australian admission.
- US Bar exam resources & prep
- Australian legal admission
- What comes after the exam
The free resources are there to get you moving. When you want something built around your own situation, that is what the one-on-one sessions are for.
Start with the guides, study sheets, and videos: LSAT walkthroughs, bar-prep breakdowns, and admission checklists. When you want it tailored to your situation, book a session and we'll build your plan together.
You don't have to figure out the path alone.
I've been through the LSAT, law school, and admission, and I'm in bar prep right now. Let's map your route.
Mediation & Dispute Resolution
Get to the root of the dispute.
An IMI-qualified mediator and trainer with a genuine passion for ADR. My work is to go underneath a dispute, find the true needs driving it, and help every party reach resolution with the least cost, delay, and damage. This is the door for anyone in conflict.
Most disputes aren't really about what people are arguing over.
People come in arguing over positions, but the thing that actually moves a dispute is the interest sitting underneath it. With a philosopher's habit of separating what people say from what they need, I help everyone surface the real question, the one that tends to settle the rest once it is answered. That path is usually faster, cheaper, and far less bruising than fighting to the finish.
A conviction
ADR is the future of dispute resolution.
As business goes borderless and AI reshapes how disputes get surfaced and settled, I believe alternative dispute resolution (arbitration, mediation, and negotiation) will increasingly take on work that litigation once monopolised, at a fraction of the cost and friction. Cross-border commerce needs resolution that moves as quickly and as fluidly as it does, and rarely benefits from years in a courtroom. My aim in every matter stays the same: get underneath the dispute, find the true needs on each side, and help the parties resolve with the least cost and hassle possible.
Fields I mediate in
Workplace
Team conflict, partnerships, and professional relationships that need to keep working.
Family & interpersonal
Private disputes where preserving the relationship matters as much as the outcome.
Community
Neighbour, group, and organisational disputes resolved without the courtroom.
Cross-border
Disputes that span cultures and jurisdictions, which is home ground for me after four countries.
Contract & civil
Commercial and civil disagreements between individuals and parties.
Mediation training
Workshops and training for teams and professionals who want these skills themselves.
A better way through conflict.
If you're carrying a dispute, let's find the resolution beneath it, with the least cost and hassle.
Beyond the Law
The whole person behind the practice.
Everything off the clock: the study systems, the productivity, the gym and the kitchen, the books and the slow work of self-development. This is where I share the life that makes the work possible, and where you can follow along.
Study with me & productivity
Real-time bar prep, time-management that survives a heavy workload, and the systems I actually use to stay organised.
Gym, food & wellbeing
Training, nourishment, and the daily habits that keep energy and focus where they need to be.
Books & ideas
What I'm reading across law, philosophy, and business, and why it's worth your time.
Self-development
The reflective, unglamorous work of becoming, across four countries and counting.
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Study notes, productivity systems, and honest reflections from bar prep and beyond, a few times a month, with no noise.
Book a call
Let's start the conversation.
Tell me a little about you and what you need. Leave your details below, choose the area you'd like to talk about, and I'll be in touch to arrange a call.