The DG Thompson team brings a wealth of experience to the practice of costs assessing.

Our people are passionate about legal costs assessing and embrace a winning culture that focuses on excellence.

Kerrie Rosati, our Solicitor Director, is regarded as one of the industry's leading experts in legal costs law.

She has advised on legal costs issues in many high profile and complex cases in New South Wales and Federal jurisdictions. Kerrie also lectures regularly to the legal profession on legal costing issues, including at the State Legal Conference, College of Law and other commerical seminar providers.

Kerrie is a current member of the Supreme Court of NSW's Costs Assessors' Users Group under the supervision of Justice Brereton.

Kerrie graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Technology in 1988 and was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of the Supreme Court of NSW on 1 July 1988. After working in a large commercial law firm and taking some time off to raise her family, Kerrie joined DG Thompson in February 1998.

Kerrie is backed by 25 legally qualified costs consultants and 5 in-house solicitors.

Tara Ryan joined DG Thompson as a legal costs consultant in March 1999 after working as a paralegal and then solicitor specialising in personal injury litigation. Tara holds a Bachelor of Arts from Sydney University and a Diploma of Law from the Legal Practitioners Admission Board and she was admitted as a solicitor in September 1996.

Tara has prepared bills of costs and provided advice on legal costs issues in all New South Wales and federal jurisdictions. Tara has particular expertise and experience in advising clients and drawing bills of costs in large catastrophic personal injury matters. Tara is one of our in-house solicitor / costs consultants.

Jacqueline Highfield holds a Masters of Laws from Sydney University and was admitted as a solicitor in 1995. Jacqueline worked in a large commercial firm before joining DG Thompson as a legal costs consultant in early 2000.

Jacqueline has extensive and varied experience in legal costs law in all New South Wales and Federal jurisdictions having drawn bills of costs and advising on costs in many large and high profile matters. Jacqueline also lectures regularly on legal costs and provides expert reports as to costs and appears in Court in that capacity. Jacqueline also works as one of our in-house solicitor costs consultants.

Toni Mossman has been practising as a costs consultant for over 9 years, having joined DG Thompson in 1999 after practising for 7 years as a solicitor.

Toni has extensive experience in all areas of costing work including bill preparation, in-house costsing and advice work. She has particular experience in the preparation of bills for large matters, having worked on many large, complex commercial litigation matters and having been extensively involved in the costs assessment process for the HMAS Voyager litigation. She currently works as one of our in-house solicitors / costs consultants.

Nicole Armitage graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1999 and was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 2000. Nicole worked in litigation in the areas of personal injury, superannuation and insurance law before joining DG Thompson in 2003. Nicole is a Senior Solicitor for Sydney and Canberra and has experience in all aspects of costing law.

Nicole has assisted both the ACT and NT law societies with drafting mandatory disclosure documentation for their members in compliance with the newly introduced Model Legal Profession legislation in each of those Territories.  Nicole is also a regular contributor to Ethos, the ACT Law Society publication, has published articles in other legal journals including Precedent for the Australian Lawyers Alliance and lectures on costs law and practice in all jurisdictions.