Personal Services

We provide a range of personal services.

We offer an extensive range of personal services including conveyancing, estate planning and estate administration.

We understand that conveyancing, estate planning and administration can be difficult. We offer a sensitive and practical approach. We offer fixed fees on most of our personal services.

We carefully select each of our team members to enhance our culture and to create a collaborative, diverse and supportive team. As a locally owned and nationally operating firm, we are proud of the important work we do for our valued clients and the role of our people in achieving practical and reliable outcomes.

Our Personal Services

Our team of Personal Services experts have extensive experience delivering high quality services in each of our practice areas.

We are committed to delivering on our Client Service Standards of price, communication, timeliness and quality.

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  • Estate Planning and Estate Administration

    • Estate planning
    • Estate administration
    • Family provision claims
    • Powers of attorneys
    • Succession planning for your business
    • Superannuation binding death benefits nominations
    • Testamentary trust wills
    • Wills including codicils
  • Conveyancing

    • Sale and purchase for ACT and NSW properties
    • Off-the-plan sale and purchase for ACT and NSW properties
    • Building contracts
    • Retirement villages contracts
    • Loan and mortgage documents
    • Guarantor advice
    • Tenant in common agreements
    • Family law and estate property transfers
    • Residential tenancy agreements

Panel Arrangements

Griffin Legal has extensive capability in advising Government with a passion for providing high quality legal services to both Commonwealth Government and State/Territory Governments.

We can be engaged for both on-panel and off-panel work to suit the needs of the government agency.

We are proud to be an approved supplier appointed to many Australian Government and ACT Government panels.

    • Whole of Australian Government Legal Services Panel
    • Management Advisory Services Panel
    • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Probity Services Panel
    • Sport Integrity Australia Investigation Panel
    • Airservices Australia Workplace Investigations
    • ASIC Enforcement Bundling Arrangements
    • ACT Government Legal Services Panel
    • ACT Public Trustee and Guardian Panel
    • ACT Government Administrative Reviews, Investigations and Related Services Panel
    • Ararat Rural City Council Probity Panel
    • Registered Secure Local Jobs Auditors, appointed by ACT Government

Meet our

leadership
team

  • Carina Zeccola
    Carina Zeccola

    Managing Director

    • Privacy and Information Technology Law
    • Government
    • Corporate Governance
  • Claire Carton
    Claire Carton

    Executive Director

    • Corporate and commercial law
    • Employment law
    • Integrity
  • Damien Brazel
    Damien Brazel

    Partner

    • Privacy and Information Technology Law
    • Government Advisory
    • Administrative Law
  • Nicole Platt
    Nicole Platt

    Partner

    • Probity
    • Procurement
    • Government Advisory
  • Beth Cox
    Beth Cox

    Special Counsel

    • Government IT Procurement and Contracts
    • Corporate/Non-corporate Governance
    • Industrial Relations and Employment
  • Fiona Jolly
    Fiona Jolly

    Special Counsel

    • Disputes and Litigation
    • Employment Law
    • Investigations
  • Melinda Smith
    Melinda Smith

    Special Counsel

    • Privacy Law
    • IT Law
    • Administrative Law
  • Kelly Bush
    Kelly Bush

    Conveyancing Manager

    • Conveyancing

Our Areas of expertise

  • Government (13)

  • Not-For-Profit (14)

  • Business (15)

  • Sport (13)

  • Our full range of Government services include:

    • Privacy and Cyber
    • Governance & Probity
    • Administrative Law
    • Procurement & Tendering
    • Employment Law
    • Intellectual Property
    • Information and Communications Technology
    • Dispute Resolution
    • Property
    • Commercial Law
    • Insurance
    • Integrity
    • Secondments
  • Our full range of Not-For-Profit services include:

    • Privacy and Cyber
    • Administrative Law
    • Procurement & Tendering
    • Corporate Governance
    • Employment Law
    • Intellectual Property
    • Information and Communications Technology
    • Dispute Resolution
    • Property
    • Contract Law
    • Insurance
    • Integrity
    • Secondments
    • Secure Local Jobs
  • Our full range of Business services include:

    • New Sharing Economy Reporting Regime
    • Privacy and Cyber
    • Administrative Law
    • Procurement & Tendering
    • Corporate Governance
    • Employment Law
    • Intellectual Property
    • Information and Communications Technology
    • Dispute Resolution
    • Property
    • Contract Law
    • Insurance
    • Integrity
    • Secondments
    • Secure Local Jobs
  • Our full range of Sport services include:

    • Privacy and Cyber
    • Administrative Law
    • Procurement & Tendering
    • Corporate Governance
    • Employment Law
    • Intellectual Property
    • Information and Communications Technology
    • Dispute Resolution
    • Property
    • Contract Law
    • Insurance
    • Integrity
    • Secondments