Being a woman in law can have it challenges and knowing the skills to success are key to forwarding your career. Join this line-up of passionate, highly skilled and trained women lawyers as they share their insights on three major areas aimed at boosting your career and practice. 

Presenters

Dr Megan Morris, Psychologist, Megan Morris Psychology
Dr Megan Morris is a registered psychologist (MAPS), originally from Brisbane and has spent more than 10 years residing overseas in Thailand and Vanuatu where she worked in voluntary and non- voluntary roles in psychological support and education. On her return to Australia in 2006, Megan became an accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, and worked with separated families providing family mediation for resolving separated parents disputes in parenting and financial matters. She also worked for the federal government funded Family Relationship Centers, Relationships Australia Queensland (RAQ) and the National Telephone Dispute Resolution Service providing mediation. From 2010, Megan was the coordinator/manager of the Australian research project, “Outcomes for Separated Families” a collaborative project conducted by The University of Queensland (School of Psychology) in collaboration with RAQ and funded by the Australian Research Council. In 2016 Megan completed her PhD from the University of Queensland with her research focused on understanding separated families in conflict and measuring their mediation outcomes. In 2010, she began writing family reports and providing social assessments for families involved in family court, children’s court and federal circuit court matters. She is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Queensland, a full member of the Australian Psychological Society, the Queensland Child Protection Practitioners Association, and the Family Law Practitioners Association and is interested in improving the lifestyle of members of high conflict families and in particular the children of high conflict parenting disputes. Megan is a private consultant based in Brisbane who provides psychological support to individuals and families, mediation for family issues, and family reports and assessments for family law matters.


Hazal Gacka, Senior Associate, MinterEllison
Hazal is a Senior Associate in the MinterEllison Brisbane Projects, Infrastructure and Construction team. She works primarily in a front end role and is a leading senior procurement specialist across a wide range of industries including government, energy & resources, and health, and also assists various clients as part of the firm's modern slavery practice. Hazal values the opportunities provided by the firm to give back to communities through involvement in pro bono work including both legal work and mentoring programs with high school students. Hazal champions psychologically safe and sustainable ways of working, and leads by example with her commitment to wellbeing and mental health (both personal and through firm initiated programs).


Nichola Di Muzio, Special Counsel, Thynne + Macartney
As head of Thynne + Macartney's Family law group, Nichola supports clients through the decision-making process around relationships and family issues. She has over 30 years' legal experience, both Master of Laws and Bachelor of Laws, and is Vice-President of the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland. Nichola helps clients to navigate the often difficult territory of family law to discover the best result possible for them and their loved ones. This includes finding a course through parenting matters including complex situations such as relocation disputes, child protection and child abduction in Queensland, interstate and overseas. She also assists with matrimonial and de facto property settlements, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial financial agreements, spousal maintenance, paternity issues, family and surrogacy, domestic violence matters, divorce, spousal maintenance and child support. Nichola has undergone advanced training in collaborative law and mediation. With her training, she explores and encourages clients to pursue non-adversarial and more cost-effective methods of dispute resolution. If matters escalate, Nichola also has extensive experience in court proceedings to represent her clients. Sharing her knowledge and experience with others is important to Nichola. For many years, she has been heavily involved with the mentoring programs for law students at Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University.