Roland Matters

Legal Costs Consultant

About Me

I began legal costing work in 1985 for my father, Clarrie Matters, the co-founder of the Sydney legal costing firm, Driscoll & Matters, on a part-time basis and became a principal of that firm in 1992.

In the period 1993 - 2004, I provided legal costing services with my wife, Janet McDonald and our employees as Driscoll & Matters and as Driscoll, Matters & McDonald. In 2004, our practice was acquired by DG Thompson and I became the Managing Solicitor of DG Thompson Driscoll + Matters.  Following an 18 month period in Brisbane, establishing the Brisbane office of DG Thompson Driscoll + Matters, I resigned and returned to Sydney, commencing provision of legal costing services in my own name.

As a consequence of the above, I now have the experience that some twenty years of practice and thousands of engagements produce, incorporating the preparation of costs documents, the provision of legal costing advice and opinion evidence.

I am a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and of the High Court of Australia and hold a current unrestricted solicitors’ practising certificate issued by the Law Society of New South Wales.

 

Roland Matters, Legal Costs Consultant, is the trading name of Fairshare Pty Ltd, ACN 060 023 538.