About Us
Servicing clients in South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria we understand the need to shed the traditional law firm model.
We represent our clients with integrity, skill and assertive strategies.
Coupled with the sharing of an extensive knowledge base, resources and experience, we distinguish ourselves from our competitors by:
- understanding that the consistency of our product and its delivery are non-negotiable;
- representing our clients in a manner which robustly advances their interests;
- being inclusive, transparent and constantly accessible;
- adhering to our firm motto "Strength through Unity". Our motto describes the relationships that we foster both internally and with our client base;
- and consistently delivering on our stated purpose of "Redefining Expectations".
Our People
Our Services
JKR Lawyers differentiates itself by ensuring that our professional services are:
- assertive;
- delivered with immediacy;
- couched in clear, concise and readily understandable terminology;
- strategised to achieve client focused outcomes;
- commercially orientated;
- pragmatic;
- direct and decisive; and
- cost effective
With focused areas of practice you are assured that we are skilled in what we do.
Landlord Representation
JKR Lawyers' team is experienced in providing not only high volume assertive debt recovery and stream leasing services to landlords but also representation in complex and sensitive litigation.
Having represented large landlords with retail, industrial and commercial portfolios, our director Justin Ratanatray is familiar with the relevant legislative requirements and understands the drivers underpinning the day to day decisions landlords must make.
We provide the following landlord services:
- stream leasing;
- tailored high volume debtors management;
- drafting services agreements;
- alternative dispute resolution including mediations; and
- necessary litigation.
Commercial and Business Law
Our practitioners have developed a keen understanding of client needs and are quick to identify risk profiles and deliver solutions.
That experience enables JKR Lawyers to ensure your rights are preserved and your risks are minimised in all facets of commercial and business law.
Our commercial and business law services include:
- drafting standard terms and conditions of trade;
- drafting credit applications;
- drafting contractors agreements;
- drafting security documents (including mortgages, equitable charges and guarantees);
- drafting employment agreements; and
- providing advice regarding statutory compliance.
Debtors Management
Fundamental to the profitability of any business is the proper management of its cash flow. Poor debtor management quickly becomes endemic.
Our experience enables us to work collaboratively with our clients to develop or improve commercial documentation, internal procedures and coupled with our assertive recovery process, the incidence of delinquent debtors is rapidly reduced.
Our debtor management services include:
- ensuring internal management procedures are adequate to minimise debtor delinquency and reduce the need for our involvement;
- preparing and sending letters of demand;
- commencing actions (including statement of claim, summons and applications);
- creditors statutory demands and winding ups;
- enforcement orders and oral examination of debtors; and
- bankruptcy notices and sequestration orders.
Dispute Resolution & Litigation
Simply following a process to its conclusion is not an ethos to which we subscribe. Our litigation practitioners understand your needs and your drivers.
JKR Lawyers think outside the box and strive to find solutions that are commercial, pragmatic and immediate.
In some instances commercial solutions are not the answer. In those cases we represent our client's interests robustly with integrity, skill and assertive strategies geared to your needs.
Our areas of litigation experience include:
- trade practice matters;
- contractual disputes (i.e. breach of contract, damages and misrepresentation);
- unconscionable conduct;
- partnership disputes;
- property disputes; and
- alternative dispute resolution (including mediation and arbitration).
Solvency Law, Risk Management and Restructuring
Our practitioners are experienced in all facets of insolvency law. Unsurprisingly in such a fluid area of practice our client base is wide and varied. Each of our experiences enables us to deliver our services.
JKR Lawyers provides the following solvency related services:
- making and resisting winding up applications;
- making and resisting creditors petitions;
- making and resisting applications for the appointment of provisional liquidators, receivers and administrators;
- advice to individuals and companies that are or are likely to become insolvent;
- drafting deeds of company arrangement;
- drafting personal insolvency agreements; and
- creditor representation (i.e. liaising with liquidators, trustees in bankruptcy and creditors meetings).
Our Fees
Lawyers' fees are usually time costed. We consider that time costing can in some situations reward inefficiency and does not always provide a certainty of cost.
Our preference is to provide our services on a fixed fee basis where possible. Fixed fees provide certainty of cost and deliver a transparent model where you are assured of our accountability.
In some instances we are able to provide our clients with a fixed fee price list for select services such as debt recovery, family law, leasing and transactional work.
From the outset of each matter we will, in consultation with you, identify whether one of our fixed fee price lists will apply. If a fixed fee price list does not apply or if your preference is to engage us on a time costed basis then we:
- identify the likely steps required to perform the work;
- provide you with a detailed estimate of our fees (on a time costed basis);
- obtain your approval with respect to our fees; and
- provide you with a transparency of invoicing that enables you to understand the works performed and the fees incurred.
Where we provide our services on a time costed basis the following table shall apply unless otherwise agreed to with you:
| Principal | $750.00 |
| Head of Department | $650.00 |
| Senior Associate | $550.00 |
| Solicitor | $400.00 |
| Graduate Solicitor | $300.00 |
| Paralegal | $250.00 |
Expenses & Additional Disbursements
Traditionally, law firms on-charge general photocopying, facsimiles, emails, postage and call costs. Such costs are, in our view, ordinary business expenses which should be absorbed.
JKR Lawyers does not on-charge the usual office expenses incurred in our day to day operations.
However, from time to time we may be required to incur (with your consent) certain expenses which are on-charged to you at cost.
Those expenses are known as disbursements and may include (but are not limited to) search fees, courier fees, filing and lodgment fees of any kind, banking charges, government revenue charges, unusual (large) postage, process servers and investigators, agents' fees, external consultants, travel and accommodation costs, witness fees, transcription fees, statutory fees and duties and charges (e.g. stamp duty).
Contact Us
Adelaide
84 Sturt Street
Adelaide, South Australia 5000
GPO Box 2872, Adelaide, SA 5000
Phone: 08 8205 1888
Brisbane
Suite C, Level 5
217 George Street
Brisbane, Queensland 4000
PO Box 12228, George Street, QLD 4003
Phone: 07 3306 5255