We are delight­ed to announce the appoint­ment of Senior Asso­ciate Karen Hardy to our high­ly regard­ed fam­i­ly law team.

We are delight­ed to announce the appoint­ment of senior asso­ciate Karen Hardy to our high­ly regard­ed fam­i­ly law team.

Karen brings with her exten­sive expe­ri­ence in the area of fam­i­ly law, pre­dom­i­nant­ly deal­ing with prop­er­ty divi­sion, par­ent­ing dis­putes, main­te­nance mat­ters and estate lit­i­ga­tion. Karen is an accred­it­ed spe­cial­ist in fam­i­ly law and a mem­ber of the Fam­i­ly Law Young Lawyers Com­mit­tee and Col­lab­o­ra­tive Pro­fes­sion­als (NSW) Inc.

Karen holds a Bach­e­lor of Arts and Bach­e­lor of Laws (Hon­ours) degree from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Technology.

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