Gabrielle Martin Legal

Legal matters are often confusing and end up impacting on many areas of your life. It is really important that you understand your options and make good decisions based on practical and sound legal advice.

Ms Martin offers high quality, results oriented legal services. She will listen attentively to your needs and give you the advice you need in plain English.

Since its establishment in 2013, Gabrielle Martin Legal has assisted Darwin-based people with civil legal problems. We offer high quality, results orientated legal services.Our practice involves listening to your needs and offering suitable, legal advice that is digestible and free of complex, legal jargon.

Approachable Service
Gabrielle Martin Legal offers an empathetic and uniquely tailored approach to clients.We want to ensure your needs are met in a comfortable, professional environment.

Collaborative
We collaborate with you in a personal, judgement-free setting.Legal matters are often confusing and it’s important you understand your options.

Plain, Simple Terms
When we offer legal advice, presented in a simple and understandable way. Don’t stress about complex legal jargon, we will give you advice in plain, simple terms.

Experience
We have a plethora of experience in civil legal assistance. From employment law to neighbourhood disputes, we have the expertise to successfully assist you.

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Story And Associates Solicitors

Story & Associates was established in Palmerston in February 2003 by David Story then as a sole practitioner. In 2006 a visit only office was established in the Northern suburbs of Darwin to satisfy a need in that area for accessible local legal assistance.

Julie Holtham, a solicitor with considerable experience in all areas of the law that we practice in, joined the firm as an Associate in 2008. Julie was admitted to practice in 1998 and has practiced in the Family Law area for 16 years. She is on the NT Legal Aid Panel as an Independent Childrens Lawyer.

David Story has been practicing law since 1978 and in the Territory for 16 years. David has experience in many areas of the law including Town Planning , Litigation (Medical Negligence , Workers Compensation and Commercial Disputes) but now confines himself to Story & Associates preferred areas of the Law.
David is an accredited Alternative Dispute Resolution Practitioner.

• Totally committed to continuous improvement of quality of services that we provide
• Having highly qualified professional people who listen to you and properly explain the law to you in simple terms and who are committed to enabling you to achieve your objective
• And keep abreast of changes in the Law in particular changes to legislation both Commonwealth and Territory and staying abreast of landmark court judgements
• And are always striving to produce the best outcome for our clients.

Contact – Story And Associates Solicitors

Tindall Gask Bentley Lawyers

With a culture of service, and a determination to get it right for our clients, Tindall Gask Bentley has earned a place of respect in the Australian legal community.

For more than four decades we’ve been finding our clients practical cost-effective, intelligent solutions to all of life’s problems. Our ethos of empathy for the people who come to us for advice has been nurtured since the firm’s beginnings. It flows naturally from our team-oriented approach.

Together with our diverse span of expertise, it has allowed us to grow into a firm of renowned litigation and advisory specialists who also understand that your best solution can come from avoiding the need to go to court.

Tindall Gask Bentley was established in South Australia in 1970. The firm grew to become the largest plaintiff law firm, as well as offering the largest family law and wills & estates teams, in the state. TGB now also services the people of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Intelligent solutions for all life’s problems. That’s what we aim to deliver to all our clients, and have done for more than four decades.

Our team will go to great lengths to ensure your rights are protected.

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North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency

The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) delivers high quality and culturally competent legal services to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory.

In addition to our core legal practice in criminal and civil law, we provide law and justice related services that aim to ensure that Aboriginal people have real access to justice. NAAJA is contracted by the Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department (AGD) to provide the following services to Aboriginal people and their families in the Top End of the Northern Territory:

• Law & Justice Projects – Community Legal Education, Night Patrol
• Indigenous Prisoner Throughcare
• Northern Territory Emergency Response Legal Services
• Stronger Futures Welfare Rights Outreach

With a team of over 150 staff across the Northern Territory, together we bring a wealth of experience in the fields of Criminal, Civil, law & Justice, Community Legal Education and Indigenous Prisoner Throughcare.

NAAJA works together with Aboriginal communities, key government and non-government stakeholders to manage the delivery of services in a professional, culturally proficient and community sensitive manner.
Our Criminal and Civil Law services are delivered throughout the Northern Territory.

Contact – North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers

Maurice Blackburn is proud to be Australia’s leading social justice law firm. We’ve built a reputation on the unwavering belief that the law should serve everyone, not just those who can afford it.

That’s why we’re here for everyday Australians who deserve to have their rights defended, people who deserve:

• The right to be free – to live without the threat of persecution or oppression.
• The right to feel safe – to live and work without physical or emotional threats.
• The right to be heard – to not be silenced by the wealthy, privileged or powerful.
• The right to equality – to be respected as human beings and free from prejudice.

In 1919, Maurice Blackburn – a man whose sense of civil liberty was ahead of his time – set the course for social justice in Australia. In the time since, his law firm has contributed to some of Australia’s most influential legal decisions, from the 40-hour week and equal pay for women and Indigenous workers, to the fight against patenting of human genes and the largest class action settlement in Australian history. And the legacy grows as we continue to protect the exploited, free the wrongfully detained and hold the big names to account. Although we’ve been leading the charge for almost a century now, as far as we’re concerned, the fight for fair has only just begun.

Today, Maurice Blackburn is a national firm with over 30 offices throughout Australia and more than 1000 of the country’s best and most respected legal professionals. We provide accurate and confidential advice without unnecessary legal jargon, and we recognise the varying financial circumstances of our clients and offer a flexible fee policy. We treat every client who walks through our door with the sincerity and respect they deserve

Contact – Maurice Blackburn Lawyers

Halfpennys Lawyers

Halfpennys is a law firm that people feel comfortable coming to. Its partners — Richard Henschke and Cathy Spurr — are respected senior practitioners with more than 55 years experience between them. But they’re as welcoming to a young, first-time client as they are their very wealthy ones, many of whom have grown up with the firm.

Halfpennys was established in Darwin in 1977 by lawyer Neil Halfpenny. The firm moved from the original building in Woods Street to Mitchell Street in 1990 before moving to its current location at the beginning of 2018.

The firm has strong commercial, workers’ compensation, personal injury, leasing, and wills and estates practices and can help with most other general areas of law.

It’s the sort of firm the average Territory family could come to (if there is such a thing). That means, we don’t do things like offshore mergers because that’s not part of the average family picture.

What we do is very personal for us. We work for people — not clients — and we take their matters personally. We have a ‘care factor’ that’s not always there in larger firms because it can’t be. We’re a small firm because we believe in those values and want to keep delivering on them. The ‘big-firm culture’ is not for us; we know our clients value the partnership we have with them, the level of service they get and the price they pay for it. They’re not terribly interested in an enormous boardroom.

And we regard our people as people — not fee earners. Our team is loyal and dedicated to our clients and to the firm, and we support and cultivate them in return.

We also think it’s important to support the community we operate in and contribute by acting pro bono for organisations like the RSPCA and the NT’s Down Syndrome Association.

At Halfpennys you’ll get a highly experienced, stable, consistent and knowledgeable group of people who are genuinely interested in helping you get the best outcome. It doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you do.

Contact – Halfpennys Lawyers

Finlaysons Lawyers

Our purpose is to provide clients with legal advice that is reliable, practical, commercial, in plain English, timely and affordable. We aspire to foster trusted relationships with our clients and assist in solving challenges and realise opportunities.

Finlaysons is built on a foundation of culture and values. It is what makes us unique and gives us our competitive advantage.

Our values are translated into actions that:

• inform and underpin the way we do business
• inspire us to work collaboratively
• enable us to deliver outstanding value to our clients
• provide leadership in our markets and communities.

Our values and behaviours, as set out below, apply to all Finlaysons partners and employees, regardless of title or position. They help define our professional aspirations and provide a blueprint for how every Finlaysons person is expected to act and behave.

As one of Australia’s most respected commercial law firms, Finlaysons’ legal team provide you with practical and commercially-focused advice and solutions. Access specialist expertise, technical skill, and a thorough understanding of your needs by organising a consultation with our team.

We also have a firm commitment to providing a flexible working environment to help staff combine rewarding family and professional lives.

Contact – Finlaysons Lawyers

Bowden McCormack

We are a Darwin-based firm providing excellent, high-level, legal and strategic advice in urban, regional and remote areas of Northern Australia. Our advice centres on commercial and corporate matters (particularly business structuring and governance), property and leasing, with a focus on regional development. In these central areas our firm achieves excellent results due to the fact that, as a client of Bowden McCormack, you will experience direct access to knowledgeable lawyers who:

• listen
• learn and understand
• respond
• create a path forward
• take agreed action
• achieve the most successful commercial outcome

Assisting our legal and conveyancing professionals in the consistent delivery of value-based legal and strategic advice, we have a highly-skilled management and administrative team which provides:

• best practice support services
• progressive, sustainable and flexible working practices including savvy IT systems that:
• enable a paperless legal process
• facilitate remote working to reduce costs and improve how we work with our team and clients alike

Our firm is in a unique strategic position within the Northern Territory community and has an elevated capacity to advise clients with an interest in the development of Northern Australia. Our Team have the expertise and judgement to transform the challenges of today into the creative, cost-effective opportunities of tomorrow.

Contact – Bowden McCormack

Hall Payne Lawyers

Choosing the right law firm is the first and most crucial step in achieving the best legal outcome possible.

Hall Payne understands the legal process can be unfamiliar and stressful. For more than 25 years we have been there for everyday Australians after work accidents or injury, for unions fighting to protect member rights, and for families going through change or upheaval.

We get great outcomes for clients in a cost-effective, timely and straightforward manner. Our impressive track record helping Australians from all walks of life has seen us become one of Australia’s most well respected firms with offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Darwin, Hobart, regional Queensland and Far North Queensland.

‘Work. Life. Fairness.’ This has been our approach for 25 years. We deliver on it, too, which is why referrals are our biggest source of new clients.

Hall Payne is home to some of Australia’s top-ranked employment lawyers and was named one of Australia’s leading employment law firms by Doyle’s Guide.

Our teams are lead by trusted senior lawyers including accredited specialists in personal injury, employment and industrial relation.

We are home to some of Australia’s leading lawyers, with trusted specialists in the areas you need. Hall Payne is big enough to offer you the depth and breadth of expertise you would expect at a large legal firm – but small enough to provide the personalised, prompt and friendly service we’re known for.

Contact – Hall Payne Lawyers