Stephen Rees

Year of Admission: 1982

• Family Law (Accredited Specialist)
• Partnerships and Joint Ventures
• Business Transfers
• Complex wills and Estate Planning
• Commercial Disputes
• Leasing

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Tori Barton (nèe Cooper-Hayter)

Tori has lived in Toowoomba for 11 years. She completed her high school education at Harristown State High School, Toowoomba, in 2001, where she received an OP 2 and the subject prize for Legal Studies.

She spent a year studying psychology at USQ, then transferred her studies to QUT where she completed her Bachelor of Laws in 2008.

Tori has been employed at ReesLaw since November 2002 and was admitted as a solicitor on 27 April 2009.

She has extensive experience in conveyancing – residential, rural and commercial property, business transfers, leases, estate planning and administration, debt collection and general commercial litigation.

Outside work, Tori and her husband, Miles, have two young daughters who keep them very busy in their spare time.

Lindsay Brown

Lindsay has come to the law later in life. He was a high school teacher teaching humanities for 13 years before changing professions.  Lindsay graduated from Southern Cross University with honours in 2008 following which he joined ReesLaw. He was admitted as a solicitor in 2011. His areas of interest are family law, wills and probate.

Elizabeth Adams (nèe Buckley)

Elizabeth has lived in Toowoomba for the majority of her life, studying at St Ursula’s College, Toowoomba.  In 1999 she studied a year abroad in Scotland, before returning to St Ursula’s College in 2000 to complete her final year of secondary school.

Trying her hand at a coastal lifestyle, Elizabeth moved to Cairns to study law at James Cook University, where she won the Queensland Environmental Law Association Prize for 2004. 

Elizabeth completed her Bachelor of Laws in 2004.  She then returned to the Toowoomba in 2005 to be closer to family and complete a Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies course through the College of Law.

Elizabeth was admitted in 2005 and after extensive practice in Family Law, particularly in parenting and child protection disputes, joined ReesLaw in 2010 to work exclusively in Family Law.

Sandra Ryder

Sandra joined ReesLaw in February 2007 as Assistant to Stephen Rees and Para-legal in the Family Law Team. She has 23 years legal experience having worked for 14 years as a legal secretary in England (mainly in conveyancing and company law) until she emigrated to Australia in 1996. Sandra has worked in the area of family law for 9 years and enjoys liaising with and assisting clients during the preparation of their case.

Peta Campbell

Peta joined ReesLaw as ReesLaw’s Business Manager in February 2008  She is responsible for running and maintaining general bookkeeping, accounting and tax obligations for our firm.  She spent 2 years in the UK where she worked in a boutique Law Firm in London, she then moved to Scotland and worked as a Finance Manager of an Insolvency Practice in Edinburgh.  She has used this experience to successfully run the finance side of a law firm. 

Taleena Myers

Taleena is the eldest of  three children and has lived in Toowoomba all her life.

Taleena joined ReesLaw in March 2011, as a work experience student. 

After graduating from Toowoomba State High School in 2011 with an OP of 4, Taleena joined ReesLaw full time.  During her time with us she completed a  Certificate IV in Business administration has developed high level skills as a para-legal assisting in our Family Law and Commercial departments as well as assisting in general office administration.

Taleena enjoys listening to music and reading