Kyle Kimball

Thirty six years in commercial litigation. Queensland.

I co-founded and led Sajen Legal. For thirty six years the work was high stakes commercial, insolvency and partnership disputes, most of it in the matters that arrive after ownership has already broken. The job was to keep companies alive and deals intact when everything was on the line.

A colleague once called me a merits lawyer. Too concerned with commercial reality and the people in it, too little with running every point to a fight. The label was accurate.

In thirty six years clients valued the counsel above the legal work. The pattern recognition, and the willingness to say the uncomfortable thing while it could still be said. They used to get it free, attached to the brief. They now pay for it on its own.

The practice runs two ways. Standing counsel to a lawyer who is already good at what they do. And appointments, taken personally, as trustee for sale and as mediator.