After-hours assistance

in criminal law

Below is a list of private solicitors in NSW who may provide legal assistance outside normal business hours.

For a referral to a firm during business hours, call the Society's Solicitor Referral Service on (02) 9926 0300 or 1800 422 713 (outside Sydney).

This list has been provided by the Law Society for your convenience. It is by no means a recommendation to use, or an endorsement of any of the solicitors listed. You are not obliged to use any person on this list. The provision of legal assistance is not a free service, and you should discuss any cost you may be liable for with the solicitor you choose.

Firm name

Firm address details

After-hours number

After-hours contact

Abbas & Co Lawyers

Level 2, 356 Chapel Road  
Bankstown 2200

0432 236 222

Fadi Abbas
ADL Solicitors (Able Defence Lawyers) 2/121 Queen St, Campbelltown, NSW, 2560      02 46 26 5335   Annette Charlton

AC Law Group

AC Law Group     1/299 Elizabeth St, Sydney, NSW, 2000    02 8815 8167     Joseph Correy 

02 8815 8167 

Joseph Correy
Accuro Legal Suite 26.02, Level 26, 56 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000 0431 032 011 Jason Neo
Advocate Criminal Lawyers Pty Ltd Suite 1/301 Castlereagh Street Sydney 0410 046 161 Eiad Diyab
Aquila Lawyers Level 1, 299 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000

0447 481 195
0431 154 715

Omar Juweinat
Daniel Kradolfer

Archbold Legal

Suite 1, level 1, 197 Burwood Road
Burwood NSW 2134 

0460 400 060 
0423 200 022 

Benjamin Archbold

Rhian Bartley 
Armstrong Legal L8/66 Goulburn Street
Sydney 2000		 1300 038 223 Hotline

Astor Legal

4/52 George St Parramatta NSW 2150

027 8042 823

Avinash Singh

Astoria Lawyers

Level 1, 26 Regent Street
Kogarah 2217

0405 724 878

Stephanie Angelovski 

Astute Legal Solicitors & Barristers

Level 1, 299 Elizabeth Street
Sydney 2000

0418 633 153

Darren Emery=
Australian Criminal and Family Lawyers Suite 1003/265 Castlereagh Street Sydney NSW 2000 0448 142 113 Osman Samin
Australian Lawyers and Advocates Level 1, 299 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000 0291 599 833
0474 483 212
0411 188 252		 Daniel Shestowsky
Jack Leitner

Bannisters Lawyers

203/250 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000

0448 880 060
0433 338 922

Ms. Abigail Bannister
Ms. Serae Kopra

Bilias & Associates

Suite 102, Level 1
185 Elizabeth Street
Sydney 2000

0413 094 833


0419 904 455

Angelo Bilias and
Justin Lewis

Blair Criminal Lawyers

Suite 27
104 Bathurst Street
Sydney 2000

02 9267 6225
0488 440 809

James Clements

Blomfield Legal

Suite 1 / 340 Banna Avenue
Griffith 2680

02 6964 3794

Unknown

Cambridge Law NSW

3/80 Kitchener Pde 
Bankstown, 2200

0412 973 456

Raed Rahal=

Catron Simmons Lawyers

3. 13, 33 Lexington Drive 
Bella Vista, 2153

0407 171 626
0407 534 594

info@catronsimmons.com.au

Alicia Catron
Michelle Simmons

CBD Criminal Defence Lawyers

Suite 279, level 3/398 Pitt St,
Sydney NSW 2000

0414 537 133

Victoria Havryliv

CBD Legal

PO Box 741
Lane Cove 1595
T: 02 9261 5011

0413 888 218


0414 578 881

Denise Kaiti
Clover Legal Level 1, 299 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000 0423 147 071 Seth Gibbard

Coastal Lawyers

PO BOX 598
Terrigal NSW 2260

T: 0280 033 265
M: 0410 929 018

Kristal Naividi

Condon Legal

54 Union St,
Kogarah 2217

0295 530 308

Wayne Condon

Criminal Defence Group

Suite 1, 222-230 Church Street
Parramatta 2150

0415 408 939
0451 484 010

Sam Chamas
Johnson Jiang

Criminal Defence Lawyers Australia

Suite 279, Level 3,
398 Pitt St,
Sydney NSW 2000

0286 062 218

Jimmy Singh

Criminal Law Group

Suite 5, 153 George Street, Liverpool NSW 2170

1300 274 652

 


 

Elie Srour (speaks Arabic)

Mohammed Suliman(speaks Arabic and Turkish)

Criminal Lawyers Sydney

Level 17
9 Castlereagh Street
Sydney NSW 2000

0452 062 603

Sherleen Chand

De Brennan Tomlinson Pearce (DTP)

Suite 1201, L12, 70 Pitt Street
Sydney 2000
T: 02 9235 2570

0410 343 720


0292 352 570

Sebastian De Brennan

Derbas Lawyers

Suite 3, 1 – 5 Jacobs
Street Bankstown NSW 2200

0415 833 380

Memtaz Derbas

Dib & Associates

Suite 1, Level 1

79 Princess Highway

Kogarah NSW 2217

0450 040 072

Ahmed Dib
District Legal Unit 4, 8 Avenue of the Americas, Newington NSW 2127 0420 394 216
0408 712 992		 Wael Skaf & Abdul Lazki

ETB Legal

L11, 65 York Street 
Sydney NSW 2000

0412 915 247

Uzma Abbas

Fay Rose Legal

L4, 17-21 Hunter Street

Parramatta 2150

54 Irrigation Road Merrylands 2160

0414 832 856
02 9633 4433

Fay Khalil
Fleur Bitcon Legal L23, Westfield Tower 1
520 Oxford St,
Bondi Junction 2022		 0412 211 152 Fleur Bitcon

Ford Criminal Lawyers

L1, 299 Elizabeth Street
Sydney 2000
T: 02 9261 2982

0282 510 008

Daniel Wakim

Fourtree Lawyers

Platinum Building, 3.04
4 Ilya Avenue
Erina NSW 2250
T: 1300 529 444

1300 529 444

Jane Hogan

G & D Lawyers Pty Ltd

41 Albion Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010
T: 02 8014 7020
F: 02 8580 4679

 0412 194 456

Graeme Ulbrick

George Sten & Co

1/299 Elizabeth Street
Sydney NSW 2000    
T: 0421 717 019

0412 423 569

Maggie Sten 

Good Legal Lawyers

1/299 Elizabeth Street
Sydney NSW 2000 

0421 717 019

Aaron Kernaghan

Greenfield Lawyers

Flinders Centre
Level 8
25 Restwell Street
Bankstown NSW 2200

0422 372 695
0413 753 193
0451 529 770
0426 891 227

Monique Tran***
Vangu Kitoko
Ziyi Wang (Mandarin Speaking lawyer)
Xing Hu 
Greenwich Criminal Lawyers  45/680 George Street,
Sydney NSW 2000		 0414 133 944 Zynal Khan

Greg Murphy Legal

8/78 Addison Avenue
Lake Illawarra 2528

PO Box 15
Windang 2528

0411 384 439

Greg Murphy

Herald Legal

306/370 Pitt Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T: 02 9283 8098

0420 735 899

William Gang Wang

 

Hunter Shafiz Lawyers

Level 57, 25 Martin Place
Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

0296 825 433

Hoda Shafizadeh

 

Inner West Solicitors

Level 1, 5 George Street, North Strathfield NSW 2137

0433 637 672

Louise Coorey
louise@innerwestsolicitors.com.au

 
Inner West Criminal Lawyers PO BOX 344,
Newtown NSW 2042		 0493 836 349 William Martyr

Jack Rigg Solicitors

Suite 34, Level 4
301 Castlereagh Street 
Sydney 2000

0412 340 549

Michael Bellingham
Jameson Law 67-69 Phillip Street
Parramatta NSW 2124

02 8806 0866

0489 952 063 

James Choucair

Mary Chaghoury (Office Manager) 

J.B. Corban Lawyers

Level 21, 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW 2000

0438 089 933

Jermain Corban

Jenman Lawyers, Inc.
Karageorge & Co
Solicitors

Suite 4-5 
876a Pittwater Road 
Dee Why 2099
T: 02 9283 3363

0439 792 481

Patricia Jenman
John B Hajje & Associates Suite 649, 311-315
Castlereagh St,
Sydney NSW 2000 		 0424 720 615  Koo Abuali

Just Defence Lawyers

St James Trust Building 
Suite 220, Level 2, 185 Elizabeth Street 
Sydney NSW 2000

0416 540 000
jeannette@justdefence.com.au

Jeannette Fahd - Principal Lawyer

Kalpage & Co Solicitors

132B Pacific Road
Palm Beach 2108

0418 211 074

Christopher Kalpage
Karnib Law Group Suite 2/G2 101 Rookwood Road
Yagoona
NSW 2199		 0415444318 Samir Karnib

Katsoolis & Co

Suite 606 St James Trust Building
185 Elizabeth St
Sydney 2000

0438 665 578


0431 643 698

Peter Katsoolis (Greek & Spanish speaking)
Kells Lawyers

Level 9, 66 Hunter Street
Sydney NSW 2000

14-18 Auburn Street
Wollongong NSW 2500

0410 593 059 – Available 24/7



0452 502 041 – Available 24/7

Patrick Schmidt – Sydney Criminal Lawyer


Teagan McConchie – Illawarra Region
KF Lawyers 1/299 Elizabeth Street Sydney 2000 0434 255 922 Katrina Favre

Kiki Kyriacou Lawyers

Suit 1, Level 5 Castlereagh St
Sydney, NSW 2000
T: 02 9190 6550
F: 02 9190 6555

0416 159 971

Kiki Kyriacou
KK Law Firm Suite 107A 18-20 Ross Street
Parramatta NSW 2150
 		 0419 755 529 Cheryl Khurana
(Hindi and Punjabi speaking)
 
Legal One Services Pty LTD 4/10 George Street,
Parramatta NSW 2150		 0416 277 400 Alison Michael Eid
Liberato Defence Lawyers

Level 1, 180 King Street Newcastle NSW 2300

Level 1, 299 Elizabeth Street Sydney NSW 2000

0448 527 728


info@liberatodefence.com.au

 Damien Mahon or Lindsay Stankovic
LDS Law Practice Suite 5, 72A Great North Road 
Five Dock NSW 2046
 		 0400 411 928   Lisa Swadling  

Ly Lawyers

Suite 4 L1
171 Bigge Street 
Liverpool 2170

Level 12, 370 Pitt Street
Sydney 2000

Suite 1, Lower Ground Floor 
55 Phillip Street
Parramatta 2150

1300 595 299 (24 hour service)
0433 931 825

Adam Ly

Mai Lawyers

230-232 Parramatta Road
Stanmore NSW 2048

0416 283 182

Mai Truong

Marsdens Law Group

Suite 1, L1
154 Elizabeth Street
Sydney 2000

 

49 Dumaresq Street
Campbelltown 2560

Suite 13
130 George Street
Liverpool 2170

0416 184 412

Rylie Hahn-Hamilton

Martin Bullock Lawyers

1 / 144 Marsden Street
Parramatta 2150
T: 02 9687 9322

0468 459 322

Greg Martin
 Mate Lawyers Level 1 299 Elizabeth Street SYDNEY NSW 2000 0431 704 563 Mickaela Mate

Matouk Joyner Lawyers

24 Little Riley Street
Surry Hills 2010

0421 490 488

Elias Matouk

Matthew Lorkin Solicitor

L1, Suite 2, 154 Elizabeth Street
Sydney 2000

0407 226 228

Matthew Lorkin=
Matthew Williams & Associates

Level 21

133 Castlereagh Street

Sydney NSW 2000

 0414 851 585
 		 Matthew Williams
McCristal & Co Lawyers 1/299 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000 0420 371 314 Claudia McCristal

McGirr & Associates

Suite 404
135 Macquarie Street
Sydney 2000

0280 397 497

Paul McGirr
Robert Candelori

McGowan Lawyers

Suite 2, 28 Burwood Road
Burwood 2134

3/343 Condamine Street
Manly Vale 2093
T: 02 8901 0012

0414 280 984

Ms Frances McGowan
MGL Lawyers

Level 5, Suite 501, 12 O'Connell St, Sydney NSW 2000

GPO Box 193,
Sydney NSW 2001

0416 889 669

0449 050 119

Lawrence Liew

Tracy Liu
Mitchell & Co Lawyers

Suite 801,
24 Montgomery Street
Kogarah  NSW 2217

 02 8507 2091

(24 hour service)		 Mr. Gerard Mitchell
Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law

NC Defence Lawyers

Suite 1, 299 Elizabeth Street 
Sydney NSW 2000

0404 768 983

Mr. Neil Chow

Newham Legal Level 16, 175 Pitt Street
Sydney NSW 2000		 0411 191 049 Sophie Newham
 

North Shore Criminal Law

L3, 66 Berry Street
North Sydney 2060

0299 552 298
0400 446 424

William Vahl – Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law

NSW Lawyers

Suite 23, 33 MacMahon Street
Hurstville NSW 2220

0426 200 200

Julian Balloot

Nyman Gibson Miralis

Level 9, 299 Elizabeth Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T: 02 9264 8884

 

Suite 8, Level 2 
154 Marsden Street 
Parramatta 2150

1800 NOT GUILTY
(24 hours service)

Phillip Gibson 

O'Brien Solicitors

Suite 504 / 265 Castlereagh Street
Sydney 2000

0433 711 690

Peter O'Brien – Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law

O'Brien Winter Partners Pty Ltd

Ground Floor, 360 Hunter Street
Newcastle NSW 2300

0431 600 666

Chris O'Brien, Kristy Winter and Gillian Jewison

Olympus Law Partners

Suite G2
2-4 Holden Street
Ashfield NSW 2131

0488 000 014


0433 707 130

Upol Amin (speaks Bengali)
Mohamed Mahmoud (speaks Arabic)

Opal Legal

Suite 8, Level 1
131-135 George Street
Liverpool NSW 2170

0433 847 892

Namrata Singh
Oxford Lawyers
 		 7/21 George Street
Parramatta NSW 2150		 0478 821 383 Zemarai Khatiz (Accredited Criminal Law Specialist)

Paramount law group

level 2, Oran Park Podium, 351 Oran Park drive 2570, Oran Park 

0405 912 362

Heidi Haddad

Patricia White & Associates, Solicitors

L3, Suite 3B
4 Belgrave Street
Kogarah 2217

0431 768 900

Jason Hanna

PJM Lawyers

L8, 171-179 Queen Street
Campbelltown 2560
T: 1300 363 197

0420 308 996

Paul Mazurkiewicz

Placanica Lawyers

Level 1, 299 Elizabeth Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T: 02 8251 0082

0439 725 700

Vince Placanica

Powerhouse Law Australia

Suite F, Level 1
110 George Street
Parramatta 2150

0413 254 529

Chadi Irani

Proctor & Associates

L3, 22 Hunter Street
Parramatta 2150
PO Box 1286
Parramatta DX 8218

0438 618 934

Peter Proctor and
Matthew Campbell

Ralph Lawyers

Suite 5, 91 George Street
Parramatta 2150

0416 347 067

Dale Ralph

Rosemont Partners

Suite 1408, Level 14
370 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000

0434 502 148
0290 009 999

Dinh (Tom) Phan

S.A.S Lawyers

L57, MLC Centre, 19 – 29 Martin Place

Sydney 2000

0477 303 026

Samuel A. Shenouda
SCB Legal Pty Ltd

Level 57, MLC Centre
19-29 Martin Place
Sydney NSW 2000

Level 5, Nexus Norwest
4 Columbia Court
Norwest NSW 2153

Suite 1, Summit House
286 High Street
Penrith NSW 2747

 1800 722 529 (1800 SCB LAW) Ms. Sionea Breust

Shad Barends Lawyer

9/20 Victoria Road
Parramatta 2124 

0431 059 799

Mr Shad Barends

Smythe Wozniak Legal

42 Gidley Street
St Mary's 2760

0498 458 000

Christopher Wozniak

Stronghold Lawyers Pty Ltd 

2/204 Merrylands Road Merrylands NSW 2160

0411 212 312 

info@strongholdlawyers.com.au

Wissam Philopos 
Sydney Criminal Defence Lawyers Level 7, 233 Castlereagh Street
Sydney NSW 2000		 0420 998 650 Robert Daoud
Sydney Criminal Law Specialists Suite 2/247 Church Street
Parramatta NSW 2150		 0434 856 436 Javid Faiz

Sydney Criminal Lawyers

Suite 507, 267 Castlereagh Street
Sydney NSW 2000

0292 618 881

Mia Kowalski

John Stonham & Co. Lawyers

L 7, 171-179 Queen Street
Campbelltown 2560

0424 044 550

Daniel Mifsud

Streeton Lawyers

Suite 108 / 379 Pitt Street 
Sydney 2000

0290 259 888
(24 hour message service)

Justin Wong

Sydney Criminal & Family Lawyers

L1, 299 Elizabeth Street
Sydney 2000
T: 9283 1003

0424 349 347

David Roth

Sydney Criminal & Traffic Lawyers

3 / 50 York Street
Sydney 2000

0438 818 887

Vanya Hampel

Sydney Legal Practice

133 Alexander Street
Crows Nest 2065 
T: 02 8090 7399

Suite 15, 103 George Street Parramatta NSW 2150

Suite 7, Level 12, 101 Bathurst Street Sydney NSW 2000

0410 531 789

Michael Kiang
Tang Lawyers Suite 2, 70 Moore Street, Liverpool, NSW 2170 0413 478 367 Ms. Anna Tang

Takchi & Associates

L3 60 Macquarie Street
Parramatta 2124
Tel: 02 9687 7933

0411 111 005

Eddie Takchi

The Law Practice 
Pty Ltd

Suite 2, L 1
154 Elizabeth Street
Sydney 2000
T: 02 9261 4088

0416 161 624 (available 24 hours,
also diverts to a message service 
with 15 min return call)

Martin Ricci 

The Law Shoppe

1/36 Canley Vale Rd,
Canley Vale NSW 2166

0422 388 555

Andrew Luong

Toomey Lawyers

PO Box 242
Bondi 2026
T: 02 8251 0038

0417 669 703

Sophie Toomey

Tracey Randall

1/40 Woodlark Street
Lismore 2480

0410 277 880

Tracey Randall

Tully & Chiper Lawyers

50 The Strand
Croydon 2013
T: 02 9715 5761

0411 559 070

Stephen Tully

Universal Lawyers

Suite 5, L 1
The Lister Building
28 Belmore Street
Burwood 2134

0400 484 118 (available 24 hours)

Joy Quinones

Vaikom Law

Suite 1.04
159 Queen Street
Campbelltown NSW 2560

0402 932 554

Vaikom Sundar Rajeev
Van Houten Law  Level 2 Suite 9
374 Church St Parramatta 2150		 0412 200 175 Rodney Van Houten
Velasquez Legal 1/299 Elizabeth Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T: 02 8815 8175		 0414 632 396 Carla Velasquez

Vulpeanu Lawyers Pty Ltd

Suite 309, 185 Elizabeth Street
Sydney 2000

0292 676 560

Cristian-Florin Vulpeanu

Walter Marshall Lawyers Pty Limited

Suite 121, 30-40 Harcourt Parade, Rosebery, NSW, 2018 

0450 337 773

Ilvana Nanic, Principal Solicitor

Wentworth Lawyers & Partners

L39 / 2 Park Street
Sydney 2000

0432 452 551 


1300 577 502

Nazih Osta-Husseini

William O’Brien & 
Ross Hudson Solicitor

102/281 Elizabeth Street
Sydney 2000
T: 02 8268 6500

0418 641 123


0448 807 789

William O’Brien
 

Christopher Cole

Wollongong City Lawyers

Suit 2, Level 2
221-229 Crown Street
Wollongong, NSW 2500

1300 001 137

Racheal Garra - Principal Lawyer

Wong & Horta Lawyers

10 Macauley Street
Leichhardt 2040

0414 929 868

Bruce Wong

Younes + Espiner Criminal Lawyers

Suite 913 (Level 9)
185 Elizabeth Street
Sydney 2000

0404 056 777

Carol Younes
Zanne Stratton Partners Level 21, 233
Castlereagh Street
Sydney NSW 2000
 		 (02) 8188 1801
0438 377 567
 

Con Zanne