Tim Eakin

Tim is a highly experienced and successful commercial, planning and property lawyer with over 50 years post admission experience across all Australian jurisdictions.

Tim’s legal skills, professionalism and sound commercial instincts are acknowledged and respected from within the legal profession and across the broader community.

“Each matter in hand is entitled to, and receives, my full and undivided care and attention directed to achieving the required, and desired, outcome”

Key Professional Achievements

• Tim obtained a Diploma in Law from the Solicitors Admission Board (SAB) in 1974.
• Tim was admitted as a Solicitor in New South Wales on 14 June 1974, in the High Court of Australia on 1 July 1974, in Victoria on 1 December 1977 and in Queensland on 4 November 2002.
• He was a Solicitor for the National Trust of Australia (New South Wales) between 1989 and 2018.
• Tim was the Chair (Legal Services Committee) and Member (Division Council) of the Property Council of Australia (New South Wales Division) from 1996 to 2003.
• Tim has been a Partner at law firms including Vindin & Littlejohn; Price Brent (National); Price Brent (Sydney) and Eakin McCaffery Cox over the period 1977 to 2022.
• Tim was the Managing Partner of Vindin & Littlejohn, Price Brent (Sydney) & Eakin McCaffery Cox from 1980 to 2017. After retiring from the Eakin McCaffery Cox Lawyers partnership in 2022, Tim remained as a Consultant from January 2023 to June 2024.
• Tim joined Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers in July 2024 as Senior Legal Counsel.