Murray Baird is Senior Partner of Moores Legal and heads up the Not for Profit Group. Murray has been practicing law for 30 years. He has given advice to statutory bodies, local councils, and community organisations such as charities, educational institutions and churches.

   He is a regular writer, speaker and consultant on Corporate Governance issues for the not-for-profit sector. He is a consultant in the application of The Australian Governance System (TAGS) in community organisations.

   Murray has a strong commitment to involvement in the local community and holds a number of leadership roles in schools, community housing, church and business organisations. Murray is

chairman of the EIG Ansvar Insurance Ltd – an insurer of the community sector, and a member of several community boards.

Murray was co-author of Knowing the Ropes: the Essential Guide to Business Issues for Not for Profit Organisations .

Annwei Lim is a solicitor at Neumann & Turnour Lawyers in Brisbane . She works alongside Matthew Turnour in the commercial law division and practices mainly in the areas of non-profit law, estate planning and taxation law. Annwei has completed a Masters of Law at the University of Sydney with a specialisation in tax.

E-mail: alim@ntlawyers.com.au  |   Telephone: (07) 3837 3600 
Website: www.neumannturnourlawyers.com.au

Derek Mortimer is a lawyer with Moores Legal based in Box Hill, Melbourne .
   Derek's background is as a leading proponent of micro-finance in Australia and began work in 1996 to develop a micro-finance initiative for Australian rural communities, focused on sustainable development.

   During his time developing the micro-finance initiative, Derek undertook legal studies to better equip him for the work at hand, writing papers on Corporate governance in the not-for-profit sector and Use of the public trust doctrine for environmental management . He was admitted to practice law in 2005.

   Derek is passionate about the law as a positive means to address social problems. He has worked with a number of not-for-profit organisations, his most recent position until December 2006 was developing a Code of Practice for fundraising and a complaints process for the Fundraising Institute Australia .
   Derek speaks regularly on legal issues for the not-for-profit sector and has lectured part-time at RMIT Melbourne on Foundation Legal Studies.

Matthew Turnour is the managing partner of Neumann & Turnour Lawyers and is undertaking a PhD on the law that regulates the voluntary sector. He leads the non-profit law, commercial law and estate divisions of the practice. Matthew is also a part-time lecturer in the non-profit stream of the MBA course of the Brisbane Graduate School of Business at Queensland University of Technology. He has practiced law since 1986.

E-mail: mturnour@ntlawyers.com.au  |   Telephone: (07) 3837 3600  
Website: www.neumannturnourlawyers.com.au

Vera Visevic is a Partner at Makinson & D'Apice Lawyers in Sydney . Her principle areas of practice are property law, commercial law, private client law and non-profit law.

   Vera acts for numerous religious and non-profit organisations, as well as various property trusts and developers in the industrial, commercial and domestic fields. She has close to fifteen years experience in acting for such clients.

Vera specialises in leasing – commercial, retail and industrial – and most aspects of property law. This extends to acting for clients in purchasing, developing and selling residential, retail and commercial high density developments. Vera also has extensive experience in strata law,

easements, covenants, finance, community title, strata leasehold, aged accommodation law and trusts. From a commercial law perspective, Vera regularly acts for clients in the purchase and sale of businesses, company law matters and general contract law. With non-profit law, Vera regularly advises upon fundraising issues, ATO endorsements, constitutions and governance issues.
Vera is currently a director on the board of the Catholic Weekly and sits on various other boards and committees.