History

Eakin McCaffery Cox has provided quality legal services to clients for over 100 years. The original firm - established in 1895 as Vindin Littlejohn - can trace its roots back to 1854. The firm relocated to its new offices at BT Tower in December 2004.

EMC Today

Our firm is a medium sized commercially-oriented practice, providing comprehensive legal advice and services to major Australian and international public and private companies and to a range of public, government and semi-government authorities. These include restaurant chains, educational and professional bodies, developers and insurers.

In each department the Partners take responsibility for specialist legal fields. The departments link together quickly to prepare integrated advice for clients.

Our retained consultants offer specialist expertise in legal research and policy advice on proposed legislation, administrative law, banking, finance management, directors' responsibilities, and the complex field of commercial and industrial management.

The firm is client-focussed. Our relationship with our clients is based on knowledge and personal contact, creating an understanding which produces quick responses and practical legal advice. Emphasis is placed on understanding the business and operations of individual clients in order to anticipate, identify, respond to and satisfy all their needs, and to assist them in achieving their commercial objectives.

We achieve our commitment to Best Practice by implementing appropriate procedures and processes, designed to interface with and report to our clients and to look after their priorities. This includes surveying our clients' requirements and responding to any areas of concern.

We recognise that our clients seek to be involved in the decision-making where their business considerations are important.

In large transactions, in consultation with the client, a team of practitioners is always available to provide the appropriate level of human resources.

Eakin McCaffery Cox maintains informal associations with law firms both domestically and internationally. Our non-linked "open architecture" policy provides our clients with full flexibility in cross-border transactions.

We embrace Quality Assurance and Total Quality management. Best Practice is not only our commitment at Eakin McCaffery Cox, but a way of life for the firm.

The Future

We have, over time, changed greatly from the past. We welcome change and innovation and look forward to our future evolution.

At Eakin McCaffery Cox our past success will provide the platform for the future. Our key strategies include:

• Providing our clients with a one stop shop for the range of legal services the firm provides
• Employing and retaining the best people
• Advanced communications
• Sourcing and using the latest information technology
• Providing advanced broad-ranging solutions to our clients

Specifically

• we will streamline transactional work. Time spent will be reduced by advanced precedents and systems. On-line reporting and direct client access to monitor matter progress will become routine.
• our clients with large property portfolios will be able to access all their documents in electronic form, avoiding storage and document handling costs.
• legal advisings will be enhanced through access to external sources and experts.
• litigation models and forecasting will assist liability/prospects estimates to become more accurate leading to prompt commercial solutions.