Another of our trainee solicitors, Paul Formosa, has recently been admitted as a solicitor. Pictured here is Paul with Justice McMeekin (Supreme Court Judge Rockhampton) who presided over Paul’s admission ceremony.
Justice McMeekin has had a long association with Macrossan & Amiet as prior to becoming a Judge, he was originally a barrister in Rockhampton and then Senior Counsel in Rockhampton and then Brisbane, who was regularly briefed on Court matters by the firm. In fact, Justice McMeekin attended Queensland University at the same time as Patrick Carroll, partner of the firm.
Moving his son’s admission, John Formosa, made the following comments about previous children or relatives of partners completing their training at Macrossan & Amiet.
“Whilst completing his training, Paul has received a good grounding in the various areas of the law over the past 16 months with Macrossan & Amiet, and he has also carried on a very long tradition in our firm with regard to children and relatives of partners completing their practical legal training in the firm. Your Honour will recall only 2 years ago our Senior Partner, Gene Paterson, moving the admission of his daughter, Georgina, before you.
Prior to that, both Patrick Carroll and his brother Gregory Carroll, completed their articles with the firm whilst their late father, KJ Carroll, was a partner and in fact, their father KJ Carroll, completed all of his studies and articles of clerkship with his uncle the late, Mr WA Amiet. So this has been a tradition in our firm for about
70 years.”
Also attending Paul’s admission ceremony and providing him with support was his mother Kate, sister Maggie, senior partner of the firm Gene Paterson and Senior Counsel Graham Crow of Rockhampton.
We wish Paul well in his future as a lawyer with our firm and trust he meets all challenges that face him both in work and personal life in the future.
