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Wollongong firm expands into Shellharbour
Multiservice NSW-based boutique law firm Foye Legal, which already has offices in Wollongong and Sydney central business district, is now expanding to Shellharbour and has appointed a new head of its compensation division.
Jerome Doraisamy
Foye Legal – which has bolstered its ranks regularly in recent times, including with a new special counsel in May, and a new family law specialist and chief finance officer in September and August of last year, respectively – is growing once again.
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The firm is set to open another regional office, this time in the coastal town of Shellharbour in NSW.
The opening of the new office, the firm said in a statement, is a “testament to taking measured risks and never forgetting your core values”.
The team in the new office will provide the full suite of legal services currently available from the firm’s Wollongong office.
Foye Legal has also appointed Melissa Pacheco Zizic as its new director of compensation.
Ms Pacheco Zizic brings, the firm said, more than 12 years of experience in supporting clients accessing financial compensation and insurance claims, ranging from product and public liability to motor vehicle and industrial accidents, medical and other professional negligence, workers compensation and work injury damages, assault and institutional abuse and total permanent disability claims.
“Many people suffering the long-term effects of ill-manufactured medical devices in their body are unaware of their rights to seek compensation,” she said.
“In recent years, I have had the privilege of representing clients who received recalled hip implants that contained a metal-on-metal component that led to metal poisoning and other issues.
“I can’t take away the pain or injuries, but obtaining compensation helps place them back in the position they were in before injury, as far as money can do that. For most, this helps soften the burden because something has finally gone their way. It can be life changing.”
Ms Pacheco Zizic added that, with a Chilean father and Italian mother who both immigrated to Australia, she has a deep understanding of the challenges people from non-English speaking backgrounds face.
She was drawn, she noted, to study law and finds the most rewarding part of the job is learning people’s stories and supporting them in changing their future for the better.
“Through my parents’ experience I came to appreciate that knowledge is power, and that education is the greater equaliser. So, from a young age, I was attracted to the romantic ideal of lawyers seeking justice for the oppressed. If I could make a positive difference in people’s lives – I thought that would be a truly rewarding and fulfilling career.”
