Locations
Each city page shows the verified lawyers practising in that location across all live practice areas, plus local court infrastructure, fee benchmarks, and the regulators governing the profession in that state.
20 place pages, 16 of them with entries today: 5,599 profiles we research and publish ourselves, 4,077 lawyers and firms Doyle’s Guide ranks that we hold no profile for, and 1,149 listings from the Victorian public register. Each page says which of those it is showing you, and a city is only claimed when the source names it.
Three different things are counted on this site and we never add them together: 5,599 profiles we research and publish ourselves, 4,077 lawyers and firms Doyle’s Guide ranks that we hold no profile for, and 1,149 listings from the Victorian public register. A lawyer is only counted as being in a city when the source itself names that city — a Doyle’s list scoped to a whole state names none, so those entries are shown on that state’s capital page under a heading that says so, and are never counted as that city’s.
Pages with nothing on them yet
The Victorian register search also returned 207 lawyers with a Bendigo business address and 204 lawyers with a Ballarat business address. We publish no page for those places yet, so we do not claim them here.
Priority cities
Australia’s six capital cities plus Gold Coast and Newcastle. Most contested legal matters end up in one of these registries.
Additional locations
Smaller cities and Sydney/Melbourne suburb-level pages.
Although some areas of Australian law are federal (family law under the Family Law Act 1975; migration under the Migration Act 1958), most legal practice is state-specific. Each state has its own Bar Association, its own Law Society, its own land titles regime, its own criminal code, and its own civil liability rules.
For consumers this means the right lawyer is usually one practising in your state. A Sydney conveyancer cannot conduct a Melbourne settlement; a Queensland family lawyer cannot appear in the Family Court of Western Australia (which uniquely is a separate state court). We index lawyers by state and by city to make this match easy.
State regulators we cross-check practising certificates against: