Finalists and winners 2025

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Access to Justice Award  

    • Amber Buckland, Legal Aid Queensland
    • Jason Murakami, Behlau Murakami Grant ILP
    • Karen Williams, Aged and Disability Advocacy Australia
    • Matilda Alexander, LGBTI Legal Service
    • Nadia Bromley, Women’s Legal Service Queensland
    • Sarah Galvin, Southern Beaches Family Law

Agnes McWhinney Award

  • Katie Richards, Virtual Legal, Law On Earth & Thought Cave

  • Kylie Devney, V.A.J. Byrne & Co. Lawyers

  • Melissa Meyers, Maurice Blackburn

  • Pippa Colman, Pippa Colman Family Law

  • Whitley Foreman, Holman Webb Lawyers Brisbane

Emerging Leader Award 

  • Ariana Harradine-Noble, LadyBird Conveyancing
  • Bronte Crowley, Ruhl Family Law and BMC Mediation
  • Claire McGee, Gilshenan & Luton Legal Practice
  • Niki Schomberg, Lander & Rogers
  • Taylah Cook, Legal Aid Queensland - Cairns office


First Nations Student Award

  • Christine Conn, Queensland University of Technology
  • Lilly Graham, University of Southern Queensland
  • Matthew Bonato, James Cook University
  • Matthew Bowman, Griffith University
  • Rikisha Phineasa, James Cook University
  • Simone Price, Queensland University of Technology

Graduate Lawyer of the Year 

  • Briahna Connolly, Queensland Corrective Services
  • Hannah Bobby, HLS Tax Law
  • Nadine Hay, VAJ Byrne & Co Lawyers
  • Natalia Hutchison, Best Wilson Buckley Family Lawyers
  • Rachel Elaurant, Barton family lawyers
  • Shelly Brown, Catton & Tondelstrand Lawyers

In-House Counsel of the Year 

  • Cara Black, Emerald Clinical Group
  • Dylan Moller, Stryker South Pacific
  • Joshua Caeiro, Rio Tinto
  • Michelle Denning, Energy Queensland Limited

Pro Bono Team of the Year

  • DWF Australia Pro Bono team
  • Evans Brandon Family Lawyers
  • Gilshenan & Luton
  • LGBTI Legal Service
  • McCullough Robertson Lawyers

Queensland Solicitor of the Year - Sole Practitioner 

  • Amanda Skene, Skene Lawyers
  • Ariana Harradine-Noble, LadyBird Conveyancing
  • Cameron Niven, Soldier's Legal Counsel
  • Ismail Rasheed, IR Legal
  • Robert Grant, Grant & Associate Family Lawyers
  • Sarah Galvin, Southern Beaches Family Law

Queensland Solicitor of the Year - Small Firm 2-19 PCS 

  • Belinda Kochanowska, Intrepidus Law
  • Chelsea Baker, Cornford-Scott Lawyers
  • Jacob Corbett, Bradley & Bray Lawyers
  • Jaimee-Lee Jessop, Gilshenan & Luton Legal Practice
  • John Gallagher, Argon Law
  • Katie Richards, Virtual Legal



Queensland Solicitor of the Year - Large Firm 20+ PCS 

  • Anthony Conaghan, Thomson Geer
  • Crispian Carlowe, Unified Lawyers
  • Danielle Gill, Taylor Rose Australia
  • Jonathan Walsh, Maurice Blackburn
  • Klaire Coles, Caxton Legal Centre
  • Sarah Roettgers, Hamilton Locke

Regional Practitioner of the Year Award 

  • Kylie Devney, V.A.J. Byrne & Co. Lawyers
  • Jacob Corbett, Bradley & Bray Lawyers
  • Helen Armitage, Legal Aid Queensland, Townsville Office
  • Diane Ruhl, Ruhl Family Law
  • John Gallagher, Argon Law
  • Cliff Kroesen, Kroesen & Co Lawyers

Pride in Law Award

  • Denise Maxwell, Hensen Maxwell Solicitors
  • Jessica Cunning, Titles Queensland
  • Patrick MacDonald, Murphy's Law