TOM GOUDKAMP, OAM - MANAGING DIRECTOR & ACCREDITED SPECIALIST IN PERSONAL INJURY LAW

Stacks/Goudkamp Managing Director Tom Goudkamp, has earned a reputation for excellence in personal injury law spanning 25 years.

His expertise and integrity have been most recently recognised by his appointment as the 2003/2004 President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance (formerly known as the Australian Plaintiffs Lawyers Association). This is the largest and most influential organisation in Australia representing injured people and their lawyers.

He is the co-author of the highly regarded Goudkamp/Morrison Personal Injury Law Manual and a CARS (Claims Assessment Resolution Service) assessor in Motor vehicle claims.
   
Tom is an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law and is the chair person of the NSW Law Society’s Specialist Accreditation Board and the Personal Injury Advisory Committee. He is a member of the NSW Law Society’s Personal Injury Law Committee, a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA), a member of the Motor Accident Authority’s panel of legal practitioners and an expert in paediatric brain and spinal cord claims.

Tom was born in Holland and immigrated to Australia with his family in 1951, when he was two years old. He graduated in Law from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1972 and was admitted as a Solicitor in New South Wales in 1973. From 1975 to 1977 he worked as a para-legal for Lawford & Co, Grays’ Inn, London where he started specialising in personal injury law. From 1977 to 1981 he was employed as a Solicitor in a specialist personal injury law firm, Beston & Riordan in Sydney. From 1981 to 1989 Tom was a partner and head of the Personal Injury Law Department of Henry Davis York, solicitors in Sydney.

In 1993 Tom joined Stacks the Law Firm to head the Sydney office, specialising in personal injury law. On the 1st July 2003 Tom became Managing Director of Stacks/Goudkamp Pty Ltd. He has been involved in many important and landmark cases, including:

Rogers v Whittaker
Marsland v Andjelic
Dell v Dalton
Stubbs v NRMA
Ryan v Pledge