Meet Our Team

White Barnes has an established reputation within the legal profession for providing high quality legal work in relevant areas of practice.

The Partners at White Barnes are all extensively experienced legal practitioners who are dedicated to maintaining accessible and professional high quality legal services.

Partners of the Firm have established themselves in the industry as committed professionals including serving on various Law Society committees and taking up statutory appointments.

Our employed solicitors are highly motivated, dedicated and experienced professionals who are focused on providing clients with the best possible service.

	Stephen O'Halloran Accredited specialist in Personal Injury law Founding member of Personal Injury Specialist Accreditation Committee 1992 to date Supreme Court Arbitrator 1983-2000 Former chairman Law Society Accident Compensation Committee
	Paul Sutherland Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury law
	Ian Furnell Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury law
	Scott Dougall Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury law
	Peter Lleonart Masters degree in Labour Relations law
	Michael Barnes Masters Degree in Law Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury law Accredited Specialist in Employment and Industrial law
	Allan Farrar Accredited Specialist in Property law
	Vanessa Steinfelder Experienced Personal Injury and Family Law Solicitor
	Linda Yip Experienced Personal Injury Solicitor

Associated Services and Resources

There are a number of trained paralegals and law clerks who are available to assist us on a project basis to handle busy workloads.

We have dedicated accounts and in house support staff.

We have developed valuable relationships with a range of forensic accountants, Occupational health and safety experts and medico legal providers. We have the benefit of long standing relationships with building inspectors and engineers through our property practice, counselling and mediation providers associated with our Family Law services and we also have long standing relationships with more generalised expert opinion services providing professional expertise in the area of engineering, accident investigation, construction, industrial relations, mechanical and manufacturing/engineering.

White Barnes continues to invest in and improve information technologies to ensure that the most cost effective and appropriate information technology is utilised by our firm. All staff have email and Internet connection available. Professionals have access to a full range of research and legal reference material on line in the office. As part of this we also ensure that we have regularly updated virus protection file systems which prevent unauthorised accessing of client data.