After 22 years in practice, Lila is highly regarded within the family law profession in Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of New South Wales. and is one of the first solicitors to graduate with a Master of Law (Family Law major from the University of Technology Sydney). Lila is also an accredited Arbitrator and Mediator.
Lila has experience in dealing with complex property matters, spouse maintenance, child support, international child abduction, parenting cases and proceedings involving bankruptcy and third-party creditors.
Lila’s knowledge, professionalism, responsiveness, communication, and guidance,
together with her consummate skill and compassion helps clients navigate through the family court process. She uses these skills to inform clients about their matter and what steps need to be always taken. Lila can present different options and strategies and give
full and frank opinions about her recommendations. Her focus is on quick effective settlements that provides her clients with realistic expectations in a cost effective and timely manner.
Lila’s been a partner for over 11 years, this experience guiding young women in the profession, combined with being a mother, means she has empathy for working mothers and women. She understands the need for accountability, the power of listening and believing, and why courage and compassion is prerequisite when representing and empowering women.
Theodore Roosevelt said “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” For Lila, this quote represents all the women out there who juggle work, family, and many other commitments and who continue to show up and be professional, brave and vulnerable.
Lila is hoping that Women in Law and Business will allow all women that participate to share their stories and support one another through their career and personal goals and to enter the arena without fear.