BucketOrange Magazine is powered by some of Australia’s brightest upcoming legal minds. Meet our team of writers who are passionate about alternative legal publishing:
Sarah Lynch Founder & Editor-in-Chief By all accounts, Sarah is pretty cool. She has excellent teeth, a writing speed the envy of Eastern Australia, and is so charming it’s alarming. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of BucketOrange Magazine, and is admitted to practice as a Barrister & Solicitor in the ACT. After graduating from the Australian National University with degrees in Arts/Law, Sarah’s long-standing passions for the law, the written word, music, pop culture, social justice and greater access to the law for young Australians led her to break the industry mould by creating the first and only independent legal publication dedicated to empowering and inspiring young Australian non-lawyers about their legal rights. Having created her dream role, BucketOrange Magazine has since been recognised as among the leading legal industry disruptors in Australia. When she’s not clumsily referring to herself in the third person, you can find her trying to carve out space in her busy schedule for important pursuits like crafting the perfect playlist, suppressing the urge to buy yellow things or engaging in animated discussions about how 2006 was ‘the ultimate year for indie music.’ Melissa Lynch Senior Legal Researcher When most people flip open their Australian passports, you can expect a predictable suite of possible birth cities - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra or, if you're unlucky, Hobart (sorry guys). But when Melissa leafs through her passport the front page proudly boasts "Birth place: Harare, Zimbabwe." Ah, yes, she's exotic! Having lived in most Australian capital cities before the age of 16, Melissa finally settled in Canberra where she studied a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws at the Australian National University and completed her Masters of Law (Legal Practice) with merit. For a lawyer, she has enjoyed an enviable slash career both in Australia and overseas. Having worked for several years as a senior government lawyer, she resigned and took a giant leap to Botswana where she worked with Australian Volunteers International as an international human rights lawyer for one of the most reputable non-profits in Southern Africa, Ditshwanelo, the Botswana Centre for Human Rights. Her most recent adventures have seen her work in South Africa where she took on an integral role with an award winning social enterprise. When it comes to being late for work in Africa, she says forget the "traffic congestion" excuse: try being delayed by giraffe, impala, monkeys or mongooses crossing the road in front of your Toyota Hilux. These days you can usually find her knee-deep in legal research with 200 open browser tabs, or whipping through the latest case law or legislation for BucketOrange Magazine. During her down time Melissa usually escapes outdoors where she can lose hours honing her nature photography skills. Her loves include gin & tonics, any food containing mint (literally, anything), tea, and 80s music. Her hates include people who walk slow, and anyone who doesn't like 80s music. Amy Thomasson Legal Journalist Amy is from Perth. She recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Political Science and Law & Society, with a particular interest in intellectual property law. After a brief sabbatical working for a think-tank in New Zealand, she has now commenced her Juris Doctor degree. When she's not volunteering at her local independent theatre, or watching films by Martin Scorsese, she's busy being an Instagram fiend. Bec Torsello Legal Journalist Bec is a recent Arts/Law graduate, majoring in journalism. She enjoys a good cheese platter and, like most Melburnians, is a brunch and coffee fiend. She is passionate about travelling, writing and throwing herself into the deep end. Bec loves absurd things, like heights, and ranks skydiving as her most daring feat to date. She aspires to pursue her interests in media and the law through a career in legal writing - because ultimately you can take the girl out of legal training but you can't take the legal training out of the girl! Nick Moodie Legal Journalist Nick is a legal researcher based in Melbourne. His work in rights-based law reform is motivated by a fascination with the complexities and paradoxes of law and power. Argue with him on Twitter about law, veganism, atheism, political philosophy, scepticism, Australia’s offshore gulags, the history of Stalinist Russia or anything else. Natalie Donnan Legal Journalist Natalie graduated with degrees in Arts/Law from the Australian National University, Canberra. While her initial soaring aspirations to work in international diplomacy or for the United Nations saw her focus on International Relations (along with every other first-year law student), she soon realised that a real impact can also be made a little closer to home. She changed her major to Environmental Studies and believes that one day she can be just like Erin Brockovich (no joke). Until then, Natalie works as a solicitor practising in Insurance Law where she is currently learning the craft of litigation. On the side, she is involved in as many social events as her work permits, including "go-slow Saturdays" - a completely self-focused initiative that has enjoyed incredible success. In 2016 she won the Australian Insurance Law Association (AILA) Ron Shorter Memorial Award for Public Speaking with the topic "Game of Drones" which not only unpacked the personal safety and privacy implications of increased use of drones but also considered their potential and possible exciting opportunities. Like many 20-somethings, Natalie is still 'figuring it all out.' Although she is concerned about the future, recent political developments, as well as how to successfully juggle life's competing priorities and constant unknowns, thankfully, exercise, red wine and good friends are always readily available as an effective antidote. Tiffany P Monorom Legal Journalist Tiffany is currently undertaking a single law degree at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. She is passionate about writing and hopes to pursue a non-traditional career in the law. She lives by Benjamin Franklin’s quote “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” Tiffany attributes her ability to get back up after being knocked down and to keep moving forward in spite of setbacks to extreme stubbornness developed in early childhood. Caroline Foley Legal Journalist Caroline just completed her Arts/Law degree through Bond University, Queensland. Apart from feeding her keen interest in intellectual property law with legal writing for BucketOrange Magazine, Caroline spends much of her spare time engaged in more creative pursuits such as singing, playing the piano and composing her own songs. She loves blissing out to favourite artists Alt-J and London Grammar and is also a proud Delta Goodrem fan. Caroline believes that she could not live in a world without avocados and diet coke - nor would she want to! In spite of her self-confessed terrible cooking skills, she loves bingeing on MasterChef and aspires to one day pursue a career that captures her love of writing and her interests in the entertainment and legal industries. Chantal El Khoury Legal Journalist Chantal is a law student at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Her main interests are within the areas of commercial law and social justice. Chantal loves to entertain, drink exorbitant amounts of coffee and escape on long road trips when the opportunity arises. |