Maritime lawyer, Danella Wilmshurst, is well-known in the Australian maritime and maritime-legal community.
She is internationally recognised in a wide range of areas including vessel finance and mortgages. Having acted for a wide range of clients in protection and indemnity insurance, hull and machinery insurance and having handled international trade, charter-party and commodities disputes, there are few areas of maritime law that Danella hasn’t seen, acted in, and given her expert advice upon.
But it wasn’t always thus.
In the very earliest part of her career, in a crucial job interview, the interviewer asked Danella what she knew about shipping law.
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“And to my eternal shame, I said, ‘Isn’t that about boats and stuff?,” she laughs, rolls her eyes to the ceiling and shakes her head.
But the fact that she had been working for a large insurer, and had already worked on liability claims, was to her credit in the interviewer’s eyes.
The rest, as they say, is history.
