OUR TEAM

I am a Principal at McInnes Wilson Lawyers, having joined the firm in 2011. I have extensive experience in insurance litigation and dispute resolution, and enjoy working on complex and challenging claims.

Having worked in a number of practice areas, I was drawn to the Personal Services by the complex and diverse array of claims and the challenges they each pose.

The consequences of events on my client’s lives can be significant - each case is an opportunity for me to improve the lives of my clients and their families. I get satisfaction knowing that I have made a difference in their lives.

I have a particular interest in birth trauma claims and claims involving traumatic brain injuries. I have a passion for cycling and respresenting cyclists on our roads.

I am passionately associated with Brain Injury Australia and the Brain Injury Foundation. I have worked closely with Queensland's preeminent cycling organisation, Bicycle Queensland, proudly for almost 9 years now.

Prior to joining the personal services team at McInnes Wilson Lawyers, I practiced across a variety of areas of law including:-
■ General and commercial litigation;
■ Commercial law;
■ Family Law, including child support matters;
■ Wills and Estates;
■ Property law (commercial and residential);
■ Workplace and employment law;
■ Environment and planning law;
■ Recovery proceedings.

I have proudly been named as a leading motor vehicle accident compensation lawyer in the Doyle's Guide 3 years in a row for my work in the space. I have also been named as a leading public liability compensation lawyer con the Doyle's Guide 3 years in a row for my work in that space.

Wendy is an experienced medical negligence lawyer, who also practices in catastrophic & complex personal injuries resulting from motor vehicle, work accidents and public liability accidents. She provides comprehensive legal advice with empathy and compassion. She offers add on services such as Total & Permanent Disability, Death Benefit claims and estate planning.

Her experience in medical negligence includes birth injuries, failure to diagnose cancer, failed & inappropriate surgeries causing catastrophic injuries like amputations or brain injury, failure to diagnose post-operative complications by emergency departments and other medical providers.

Being a mother and grandmother, Wendy understands how vulnerable women are during pregnancy and birth, particularly when they have limited choices and must trust the care, treatment and advice of professional medical staff.

Wendy is also interested in surgeries that have gone wrong. Treatment providers set out to do a good job, as by law they are not required to do a perfect job. Wendy believes they should be held accountable for the injuries they cause through negligence.

Many of Wendy’s clients have debilitating injuries affecting not only their everyday life but their families’ as well. Many clients require care and assistance from friends and family to perform the simple tasks most of us take for granted. If her clients return to work, they are often not in a position to perform their duties to the same degree as prior to their injury and many face lower incomes or worse, unemployment.

Wendy believes her clients deserve compensation to enable them to live with dignity, obtain care & assistance as well as the rehabilitation they require through no fault of their own.

Credentials
●Bachelor of Laws, UNE 2010
●Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, ANU 2011
●Admitted to the Supreme Court of Qld 2011
●Admitted to High Court of Australia 2016
●Member of Queensland Law Society
●Member of Medico-Legal Society of Queensland

Amy emphasises the importance of acknowledging every aspect of the journey—from pregnancy to postpartum.

"Acknowledging all aspects of pregnancy, birth and postpartum as having the potential to be traumatic is vital. There is no hierarchy of trauma. It is not our job to determine if your experience was traumatic, but to listen and offer our support."

Brittany is a Solicitor in our Brisbane office, sees her work as part of a larger movement.

"Something that has previously been seen as a 'women's issue' is now a movement that I get to be a part of every day and it is an honour."

Rose, our Law Graduate, finds fulfillment in blending legal expertise with empathy.

"Advocating for women who have experienced birth trauma allows me to blend my legal knowledge with compassion, working towards justice for those who have suffered trauma at one of life’s most significant events. It is the stories of these women who trust us to assist them in their claim which makes work like this so fulfilling."

Amy is a fifth-year law and accounting student, working as a paralegal in our Compensation team. Since joining the team in 2020, Amy has developed a passion for medical negligence claims, in which she now solely focuses on, with a niche interest in traumatic births.

Over the past two years Amy has gained experience in New South Wales, Queensland and Victorian birth injury and trauma claims and is particularly interested in how omissions in antenatal care can translate into significant injuries to both mother and child.

Amy is driven to achieve client focused outcomes and ensuring clients feel supported throughout the claims process.