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L-R: Max Beckerling, Carolyn White, Katherine Bodey, Rhonda Griffiths, Amanda Monachino, Jackie Bedford, Vicky Avery, Elizabeth Hynes, Joe Russo, Kirsten Brown, Daniel Loreck, Marie McDonough
(some staff absent from the photo)
Carolyn White Office Manager Katherine Bodey Joe Russo Daniel Loreck Associates/Consultants Max Beckerling Rhonda Griffiths Elizabeth Hynes Directors |
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Elizabeth graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1976 and was admitted to practise in 1980. Elizabeth has worked in private practice exclusively in Family Law since 1989. Elizabeth is an Accredited Family Law Specialist, and received a commendation for excellence in the 1997 Accreditation exam. Elizabeth has served on the Council of the Family Law Practitioners' Association, was editor of the FLPA magazine for two years and is a past convener of the Law Reform sub committee. Elizabeth is a founding member, and is President of, Collaborative Professionals Western Australia. |
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Rhonda was admitted to practise in 1976. Before she joined DCH in 1996 she was a partner for 12 years in another major Perth Family Law firm, worked as a consultant to the West Australian Law Reform Commission, with the Legal Aid Commission and the Aboriginal Legal Service.
Rhonda is a past president of Women Lawyers Association of W.A. and served on the Family Law Practitioners' Association Council
and has served on the Council of the Law Society of Western Australia. |
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Max was born in South Africa. He immigrated to Australia in 1989 and matriculated from Hollywood Senior High. He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1996 majoring in History and Politics and with a Bachelor of Laws from Murdoch University in 2000. Max spent 2001 in Hong Kong practising in commercial and class action litigation.
He was admitted to practise in the Supreme of Western Australia in 2002 and has specialised in Family Law since 2003.
Max practises in all areas of Family Law including property, children's matters, child support and Wills.
Max has appeared as counsel in trials before the Family Court and regularly appears as counsel in Restraining Order proceedings.
Max is married and has two children. He spends his "free time" swimming, running and cycling and aims to one day do them all one after the other in a triathlon.
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Toni graduated from the University of Otago (NZ) in 1991 with a LLB(Hons) and a BA (History). She was admitted to the Bar in 1993. After graduating she worked for a Criminal Barrister as a Junior and participated in some challenging cases. Toni decided on a career change and joined the NZ Police force as they were impressed with her legal abilities and encouraged her to enlist. She left the Police force to work in the Crown Solicitors office (NZ) and was seconded to the UN, in 2003, on international criminal issues for one year. Toni continued to work as a barrister in NZ, mainly in criminal defence work with small amounts of family law. Toni enjoyed a break pursuing a variety of interests including buying a hotel in NZ but later she returned to the Crown Solicitors Office in 2007 where she worked on criminal prosecution trials. In February 2008 she came to Perth and was admitted to practise, under reciprocity, in family law. She commenced with DCH in November 2008. Toni enjoys keeping fit and is involved in a variety of sports. |
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Joe graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Western Australia in 1972. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1974 and obtained employment in general practice. Joe later became a founding partner of a law firm which grew to a number of partners and employed solicitors with a total staff of some 50 people. The firm undertook work in all areas of law, including high profile criminal cases, Royal Commissions, civil cases and commercial and securities work for major banks and finance companies. Joe practiced in many areas of law, including criminal, civil and securities work, but with a substantial part of his practice in family law. He was a member of the Protest and Disputes Board for a number of years with the Perth Amateur and Social Soccer Association and was on the Board of Citizen Advocacy for disabled people, for the South-East Metropolian Branch. Joe joined the Army Reserve and graduated as an infantry officer and subsequently served as an instructor in an officer cadet training unit and later as an Intelligence Officer. Since 1995 Joe has been practising as a consultant exclusively in the area of family law. Joe is married with three children and enjoys spending time with his family. |
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Daniel graduated from Curtin University of Technology in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts with distinction, and with a Bachelor of Laws from Murdoch University in 2004. During his university studies, Daniel gained experience working as a law clerk at the Legal Aid Commission and at the Mental Health Law Centre. Daniel was admitted to practice in 2005 and completed his articles of clerkship and restricted practice year in the public sector. He has appeared as counsel in criminal trials, mental health reviews and restraining order trials. From September 2006 to March 2008 Daniel worked exclusively in the family violence field specializing in restraining order litigation. Daniel joined DCH Legal Group in April 2008. He accepts instructions in all areas of family law. Prior to coming to the law, Daniel studied literature, piano and music technology. His hobbies include keeping fit and writing and performing music. |
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Katherine graduated from Murdoch University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Psychology. She subsequently commenced her Honours in Psychology investigating the adoption of a therapeutic approach to mandatory mediation in child-related proceedings and simultaneously commenced working as a Family Disputes Practitioner with the Family Relationship Centre. Katherine commenced her articles with a Barrister specialising in mediation and taxation matters in August 2008 and joined DCH Legal in December 2008 to co-jointly complete her articles. Katherine was admitted into the Supreme Court in August 2009 and continues to work with DCH as a Restricted Practitioner. Whilst working as a Family Disputes Practitioner, Katherine simultaneously worked with Anglicare as a project consultant and as a facilitator for one of the Family Courts most ordered parenting programs called ‘Mums and Dads Forever’. Whilst completing her double degree Katherine worked full time as a Training Manager facilitating and assessing units in Certificate IV Training and Assessing and Front Line Management. During her university years Katherine would often take refuge in South America for three months of the year travelling between Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina and further took a sabbatical in 2005 to study ‘analytical psychology’ and the work of psychiatrist and psycho-analyst, Carl Jung, in the Catholic University of Santiago. |
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Carolyn has worked in the Family Law industry since leaving school in numerous administrative roles, including word processing, secretarial, IT and conveyancing. She has worked with some of the partners at DCH Legal Group, in between family commitments, for 24 years. Carolyn returned to DCH Legal Group on a full time basis 11 years ago, initially supervising the word processing section and implementing the change from Word Perfect to Word with new Family Law precedents. In 2004 she commenced studying for a Diploma in Conveyancing and joined a BNI charter, successfully marketing DCH Legal Group as a settlement agency. She completed her Diploma in 2008. In 2008 Carolyn was appointed Justice of the Peace. Carolyn now holds the position of Office Manager and manages all administrative staff and IT requirements for DCH Legal Group. She also oversees the conveyancing side of the settlement of all Family Law matters, obtaining the file after final orders have been made and seeing the file through to finalization. Outside of her commitment to DCH Legal Group, Carolyn has a family of three and has been heavily involved in dancing and sporting activities throughout their childhood years. She has acted as Registrar of the Morley Eagles Junior Baseball Club for the past seven years and Registrar/Secretary for the past 12 months and has been on the committee of the Western Australian Baseball Scorers and Statistician Association (Inc) for the past two years and as Treasurer for past year. |
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