Meet the Team

Laura is Barratt Galvin's Director.  She is a senior international recruiter based in Sydney, specialising in private practice legal recruitment around Australia and throughout the Middle East, UK and Asia Pacific.Laura founded Barratt Galvin in 2014 in order to offer law firms and legal professionals an elite recruitment service that can easily be adaptable to the needs of each individual. Her passion has and will continue to be, to seek out legal talent who are the very best at what they do and to ensure they are placed within law firms who are the leaders in their field.Prior to moving into recruitment in 2005, Laura worked within top tier and global law firms in Australia and London. This experience provided Laura with an in depth knowledge of what clients and candidates are looking...

Alessyn has worked in the legal recruitment industry since 2011 and she proudly joined Barratt Galvin in 2014. As our Recruitment Manager, Alessyn's primary responsibility is to provide 360 degree support to the business.  She is heavily involved in our talent resourcing and acts as a secondary contact to our clients throughout the recruitment function.  She also drives key business projects and assists with back-office functions. Alessyn's recruitment background as a Legal Support Consultant spans managing a busy temp desk as well as working in a mixed (permanent and temp job opportunities) desk. Her career background enables her to anticipate the needs of law firms and legal professionals and to assist our Director at a high level. Outside of work Alessyn is a mum and an a...

​Fran is an empowering, results driven consultant with over 15 years’ experience in client, relationship and sales management, with exceptional expertise in developing and maintaining strong working relationships with clients.Fran specialises in business support placements within the Australian legal sector and is responsible for recruiting roles including Legal Assistant, Executive Assistant, Human Resources, Business Development and Marketing.Her consulting approach is to develop relationships founded on trust, honesty and transparency to achieve outstanding results for both clients and candidates. Leading with empathy, she truly listens to our clients and applicants' needs when they are seeking their next role or when searching for their next hire.

​Diana has held eclectic roles in her career that range from being the main lawyer for Australia in a large international technology company to owning and running her own business focused on alternative therapies and spiritual wellbeing!This exposure to different professions and industries has led Diana to have a really good "eye" at figuring out what makes people tick (not to mention to really focus on one's emotional and psychological wellbeing), and also has given her purpose in life, which is to help others, figure out what they want and to try to help get it. In the case of being a Talent Specialist, she is here to help lawyers find their next opportunity that meets their needs.Diana prides herself on making a positive and permanent impact on her client's lives and seeing their sta...