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ABOUT OUR TEAM
Janie Thomas LLB (Hons) (Lond)
Director and Senior Consultant
Email: Janie@indexlegal.com.auJanie is our senior recruitment consultant and is responsible for recruitment of all legal staff from legal secretaries/administrative assistants through to paralegals/law clerks and lawyers of all levels.
Janie is a qualified lawyer; having been admitted to practice is NSW and Victoria. She graduated in Law with honours in London, England in 1998. After a 12-month visit to Australia, Janie moved to Melbourne, Australia in 2001.
Janie has a wealth of 15 years’ legal experience, gained in the UK and Australia, in both a support and a professional capacity, ranging from small boutique through to mid and top tier law firms.
Once settled in Melbourne, Janie spent 2½ years with top tier law firm, Freehills, initially joining as a floater secretary and progressing to paralegal roles in Knowledge Management and Precedents. Janie was then admitted to practice as a solicitor and took up positions in Commercial and Intellectual Property law with two specialist Melbourne law firms.
Janie has also held temporary and contract roles with numerous Australian law firms, including three top-tier firms, several mid-tier firms and numerous boutique specialists.
Through her wide-ranging legal experience, Janie has gained a valuable insight into the workings of all types and sizes of Australian law firms and can call upon the benefits of these experiences when speaking to and advising legal job-seekers.
Janie is well known in the legal arena and enjoys mixing within the legal industry and the local business community. Her professional memberships include the Law Institute of Victoria, the Law Institute’s Commercial and Young Lawyers’ Groups, Australian Corporate Lawyers Association (ACLA), Victoria Women Lawyers and the Women’s Network to name just a few.
Janie is also a mentor for the Law Institute’s Later Lawyers Group and is a regular speaker at Victoria’s TAFEs and other legal institutions. She also participates in TAFE work experience schemes and regularly gives up her time to mentor law students from TAFEs, universities, The College of Law and Leo Cussen.
Sonia Latta
Office Manager/Administrator
Email: Sonia@indexlegal.com.au
Sonia is our office manager/administrator and is responsible for the smooth-running of Index Legal and all of those essential administrative tasks that go on behind the scenes.
She has 16 years’ experience as a legal secretary covering many areas of law and has studied law in New Zealand.
Sonia has worked for law firms and other legal entities in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia, ranging from boutique law firms through to leading law firms in both London and Melbourne.
Her wide ranging legal experience enables her to relate well to legal secretaries of all levels of experience, and our legal secretarial candidates find it easy to talk to her about their career concerns and issues.
David Brown
Accounts/IT
Email: David@indexlegal.com.auDavid is our accounts administrator and is responsible for all of the day-to-day accounting, payroll and financial management of Index Legal.
He is also responsible for maintaining the Index Legal website, www.indexlegal.com.au and keeping its contents up-to-date, as well as inputting new roles onto the site. |
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