DOMINIC FLANNERY

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Email dflannery@leeandlyons.com.au
Admission Date 2 December 2004

Professional Experience

Dominic’s practice has a broad insurance focus covering public liability, professional indemnity, medical negligence, general insurance advice, indemnity issues, worker’s compensation, product liability and claims between insurers. He has extensive specialist knowledge in personal injury law and strong medical defence expertise.

Dominic was admitted to the Supreme Court of NSW on 5 December 2004. He was employed as a graduate lawyer in 2004 at Hunt & Hunt solicitors in the litigation group where he immediately was provided with his own practice. Dominic then moved to London where he worked at Herbert Smith in the international arbitration group gaining valuable cross-jurisdictional experience. On returning to Australia, Dominic was invited back to work at Hunt & Hunt where he stayed for approximately a year before joining Deacons/Norton Rose Australia where he remained until December 2011 before joining Lee & Lyons in 2012.

Dominic has worked in multiple jurisdictions including the ACT (Supreme and Magistrates Court), NSW (Local, District, Supreme, Court of Appeal), High Court of Australia and in International Arbitration from his time in London. He is a confident legal advocate both in the Court room and by way of alternative dispute resolution. At various points in his career, he has been involved with the NSW Young Lawyers, the Australian Insurance Law Association (AILA) and the Medico-Legal Society of NSW.

Dominic lists his two most rewarding work experiences as:

  1. Managing two two-week District Court hearings simultaneously for a major insurer while maintaining a busy practice of other matters in the evenings
  2. Running one of the most complex medical negligence claims , both legally and medically, in NSW history requiring over 14 different experts on each side and worth in excess of $10 million

Outside of insurance, Dominic has also completed extensive pro bono work at the Homeless Persons Legal Service at the Wayside Chapel covering a wide-range of non-routine legal issues not ordinarily part of major law firm practice.

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Insurance Law Association
  • Law Society of NSW