The principal of this firm, Alan Alpass, achieved the remarkable milestone of celebrating 50 years in continuous legal practice on 3 March 2025. The occasion was marked quietly with a celebration with staff and family.
Taking a quote from his book, Grass Roots Adventures of a Suburban Lawyer, published in 2021, Alan relates that the story of suburban law practice is one of characters, conflicts, courts, and just sometimes paralysing peril. His practice covers all areas of law, so no day is the same. He says that the endless procession of people who come anxiously through the doors present lawyers like him with a multiplicity of legal problems that ensures the variety of his work, but it is the diversity of personalities – their drivers, reactions, and responses – the array of human strengths and frailties – that provides the real interest for his life as a suburban lawyer.
So, after 50 years, he has decided to continue practicing the vocation he so enjoys and respects.