Presenters

Jennifer Maher, Director, Velocity Legal
Jennifer Maher has expertise in advising private businesses and high net worth families and individuals in relation to wealth transfer, asset protection, trusts, business structuring and succession planning. Jennifer practises extensively in private client services, which incorporates will making, estate planning, estate litigation, trust law, attorneyship, guardianship and aged care. Jennifer has handled a large number of family provision claims and has been involved in numerous estate and trust litigation cases as well as several significant cases in wills, estate and equity matters including cy-près applications. Jennifer has also been appointed as a litigation guardian to protect the interests of minors or persons under a disability, whose interests are affected by a will challenge. Jennifer's clientele includes private clients, businesses, high net worth clients, trustee companies, private and public corporations, private family and business trusts. Jennifer practice also includes assisting families with their aging loved ones, including assisting and advising attorneys and guardians as to their duties, assisting with the transition to aged care and appearing at VCAT in contested administration and guardianship disputes.

Tim Staindl, Barrister, Greens List
Tim maintains a broad practice across commercial law and the common law. He has particular expertise in equity, trusts and deceased estates. He is regularly briefed (both led and unled) in matters involving proprietary estoppel, estate administration disputes and testators family maintenance claims. Tim is a member of the Commercial Bar Association Probate & Related Property Section, and was named in the 2025 Doyle's Guide list of Leading Wills & Estates Litigation Barristers in Victoria. Prior to the Bar, Tim was Associate to the Honourable Justices McMillan and Gorton. He assisted their Honours in all types of matters within the Common Law Trial Division. Tim began his career as a solicitor at a boutique firm in Hawthorn. He has also taught Trusts at Monash University.