Rob Brook

Rob's Practice Areas

Family Law

Proper planning can help you save money and reduce liabilities. 

Family Law

Wills & Will Disputes

Proper planning can help you save money and reduce liabilities. 

Wills & Will Disputes

Conveyancing & Property

Proper planning can help you save money and reduce liabilities. 

Conveyancing & Property

Business & Commercial Law

Proper planning can help you save money and reduce liabilities. 

Business & Commercial Law
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Admissions & Qualifications 

1990 Bachelor of Arts, Macquarie University
1992 Bachelor of Laws, Macquarie University
1994 New York Bar admission
1999 Hong Kong High Court Admission
2000 Master of Laws, Hong Kong University
2011 Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, NSW College of Law
2011 NSW Supreme Court admission
2019 High Court of Australia admission

Biography

Rob practices across a range of areas with a particular focus on commercial, building and construction, property, will disputes, insolvency, bankruptcy, professional negligence, other civil litigation and family law.
Rob understands the needs of business people and that clients want fast, cost-effective legal solutions wherever possible. He is skilled in getting matters to settle either without resorting to litigation or to causing the opposing party to settle a dispute after proceedings have been launched.

Recent Work

  • Acting and effecting a negotiated settlement in a building & construction dispute.
  • Defending a client in a building & construction dispute causing the opposing party not to pursue its claim.
  • Advising and assisting colleagues in various will disputes that resulted in the matters being settled at or prior to the mediation conference.
  • Representing a group of 24 clients whose accountant fraudulently misappropriated their monies and whose estate went into bankruptcy.
  • Acting on large commercial leases and the purchase and sale of commercial/industrial property.

Background

After completing his arts (politics) and law degrees at Macquarie University, Rob travelled to New York where he worked at Mudge Rose, a large Wall Street law firm, on one of its commercial litigation teams. While in New York Rob passed the New York bar exam and was admitted as an attorney in 1994.

From New York Rob went to Hong Kong where he worked in a medium-sized practice, Pam Baker & Company. In Hong Kong he focussed primarily on public law litigation while also being involved in some family, civil and criminal law matters. He completed the foreign lawyers’ exam and was admitted as a solicitor in 1999. Rob completed a master of laws degree from HKU while there.

After returning to Australia in 2002 Rob took a hiatus from the law to pursue farming, property and other business interests. His love of the law lured him back to the profession in 2011. As the principal director of Newcastle Legal he liaises regularly with the other lawyers and colleagues in the team on strategies in the cases they are handling.
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