Lisa Hunt is a former Family Court Registrar who now heads the family law practice at Harwood Andrews. She holds a current Victorian practising certificate as a Principal with Trust, registered at Geelong, practising at The Lantern Legal Group Pty Ltd, which trades as Harwood Andrews and Sladen Legal. Family law is the only area of practice recorded against her name.
Doyle’s Guide has ranked her Preeminent in the regional Victorian family and divorce list in nine of the last ten editions, and in every edition since 2019. She is one of only four lawyers in that tier in 2026, in a list of twenty across three tiers. Her firm’s own biography understates this: it says she has been Preeminent consecutively since 2021, but the published lists show the run beginning in 2019, with a first Preeminent listing as far back as 2017. Doyle’s rankings are produced by peer survey, and this profile is not a paid placement.
Background. Her firm biography says her former position as a Family Court Registrar gives her a particular insight into the court’s practices and procedures. It describes strengths in the nuanced issues that arise where couples own family businesses, and in tax and superannuation considerations and large property and asset pools. She is a member of the Geelong Business Club and of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.
Lisa Hunt’s current rankings, from the 2026 edition of Doyle’s Guide. Firm affiliation is shown as published by Doyle’s. Every earlier edition is set out in the full ranking history below.
Doyle’s Guide publishes a separate annual list for each practice area and state, so one lawyer can hold different tiers in different lists in the same year. Below is every published Doyle’s listing we could verify for Lisa Hunt, from 2017 to 2026, with the tier reached in each edition. Each list was opened individually on doylesguide.com on 15 September 2026 — no run of years has been inferred from a single page.
What the record shows. Preeminent in 2017, Leading in 2018, and Preeminent in every edition from 2019 to 2026. That single year at Leading is the only interruption in a decade. Doyle’s has recorded her at Harwood Andrews in Geelong throughout.
Years are the edition years Doyle’s publishes. Where a year is missing from a run, the practitioner was not in that edition of that list, which we confirmed by searching the page rather than assuming it. See also our hub of Doyle’s-ranked Melbourne family lawyers.
Her firm biography names the following key areas of practice:
How the firm describes her. The biography says her family law expertise is “complemented by a compassionate, client focused and results driven approach”, and that she successfully navigates complex family law circumstances for clients. The firm does not publish fees for family law matters.
Source: the firm’s biography page, reviewed 15 September 2026. Practice areas are as published by the practitioner or the firm. This site does not verify outcomes in individual matters.
Lisa Hunt is listed on the Victorian register of lawyers maintained by the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner. The entry below is reproduced as it appeared on 15 September 2026.
Harwood Andrews is a full-service regional firm at Geelong and Melbourne, part of The Lantern Legal Group, which also trades as Sladen Legal. Doyle’s also ranks firm lawyer Tara Paatsch as Recommended in the same 2026 regional Victorian list.
The firm itself is ranked. Doyle’s places Harwood Andrews as a Leading regional Victorian family law firm in 2026, and also ranks it First Tier for town planning and Recommended in commercial litigation, environment and agribusiness — the broadest set of practice-area rankings of any firm on this list.
The register records her address as Geelong VIC 3220. Her firm biography gives the numbers 03 5226 8584 and 0407 616 729, and the email lhunt@ha.legal.
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