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Experience
In her 15 years as a Barrister Therese Ryan gained experience in:
Dispute Resolution; Family & Criminal Law; Worker’s Compensation; Succession: Personal Injury
QUALIFIED
Apart from her legal qualifications as a Barrister at Law, Therese Ryan has achieved tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Arts, Education and Mediation/Dispute Resolution.
COMMITTED
Therese Ryan has seen how the system works and now wishes to use this vast experience to help ordinary people who are facing the Justice System navigate to a just outcome.
“Compassion involves taking to heart the interests that others have in their legal claims – or, to put it another way, seeing the rights of others from the inside, as they experience them.”
Our History
Principal of Ryan Mediation Law is Therese Ryan, a talented and committed lawyer and educator, with excellent academic and professional credentials, and vast experience in education, administration and management roles.
Therese possesses strong analytical, research and project management skills, combined with expertise in developing and preparing policies, procedures and legislation.
Therese has now retired from the Bar, but with her depth of experience in such a broad range of legal contexts, she feels a strong obligation to continue helping people face these difficult challenges in life, and she brings all this background to a new role in guiding people through the legal maze, with a compassionate, professional, solutions-based approach.
Therese feels, as a seasoned advocate, a strong commitment to making a return to the community, through offering a pro bono legal support service for selected clients who have demonstrable need.
Over fifteen years of legal practice, teaching and management, Therese has gained expertise and insight into the processes and culture of the current legal system, and in relevant policies and legislation (esp. Family Law and Criminal Law, and Domestic Violence scenarios). She has developed excellent skills in assessing client needs. Her focus is solving these needs through a practical combined approach, using mediation and, where necessary, supporting and guiding her clients through the legal processes of the courts, help with preparing documents, and clear practical advice on your specific legal challenge, mindful of achieving minimum stress and minimum expense, in reaching a fair and reasonable solution.
Our Promise
Therese’s legal support services are based on strong written and verbal legal advocacy, clear and transparent communications, empathetic interpersonal relations, realistic needs assessment and, combined with her highly professional presentation skills, her support is “outcomes” focused.
Therese has gained highest level professional qualifications and expertise in conflict resolution, is fully accredited in mediation, and she has a thorough and incisive understanding of legal issues and legislation affecting today’s society.
Therese is highly committed to reaching successful outcomes for her clients and reducing stress wherever possible.