Josephine Heesh BA LLB LLM
Associate

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Areas of Practice
Property and Business Services Divisions

Professional Experience
Josephine is an accomplished property/commercial lawyer and a highly valued member of the Property and Business Services Division at Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers. She brings her extensive property law/business services expertise to her main area of work with our clients in the not-for-profit sector, assisting them with the broad number of legal issues which they face.

Although Josephine's practice has had a strong property emphasis, during her 30 years of experience she has exercised her legal skills advising on other commercial, corporate and financial matters, as well as upon not-for-profit issues. She has acted for a diverse range of clients throughout her career including property developers in the industrial, residential and aged/health care sectors, and for both landlords and tenants. 

When working with not-for-profit clients, the major areas of her practice have related to incorporation, management and tax exempt issues for charitable institutions. Josephine is a member of the Council of Sancta Sophia College, a Catholic residential college at University of Sydney. Josephine has recently retired as being Chair of this Council of which she was Chair between 2000 and 2009. 

Josephine has worked both in private practice and as a member of an in-house legal team at one of the Australia's leading banks.

Professional Qualifications
Josephine has undergraduate degrees in Arts and Law, as well as a postgraduate degree in Law, from the University of Sydney. She joined the firm in 2009