Lara is dedicated to maintaining a broad practice. She has extensive litigation and advocacy experience, and regularly appears unled in state and federal courts and tribunals.
Lara has a particular interest in the following areas:
Administrative & Public
Criminal
Regulatory (professional discipline, work health and safety)
Inquests & Inquiries
Planning & Environment
Industrial & Employment
Human Rights & Discrimination
Before joining the private bar, Lara was a Senior Crown Prosecutor at the Queensland Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and a Principal Legal Officer at the Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence.
Lara is a member of the Legal Aid Queensland Complex Criminal Case Barrister Panel. She is also a member of the Medico-Legal Society of Queensland and the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland.
Lara is a sessional academic at the Queensland University of Technology.
Areas of Practice Administrative and Public Law Criminal and Regulatory Law Coronial Inquests and Commissions of Inquiry Human Rights
