Makinson d'Apice Lawyers

Areas of practice

• Partner & Family Visas
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Building & Construction
• Banking & Finance
• Property & Conveyancing

At a glance

Lawyers

12

Type

Law firm

• John Sharp★★★★★★★★★★5.0Google rating

  February 2025

  Makinson and d'Apice have given me superb service for over twenty years. This time I have been a very demanding client for reasons beyond my control. Wife's death, a car crash, cancer and covid have made me very uncooperative for long periods but Makinsons has been very patient and picked up where we left off instantly when I came back online. Their advice has always been precise and accurate, while they have executed their action points very promptly. There are good reasons the firm has thrived for 150 years.

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• Unity Naismith★★★★★★★★★★5.0Google rating

  December 2023

  Fantastic team to deal with. Efficient, knowledgeable and great communicators who kept me up to date with dealings at all times. Special thanks to Mark for his commitment over the Christmas / New Year period.

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• Douglas Douglass★★★★★★★★★★1.0Google rating

  May 2023

  I went to this company and interviewed Richard de Apice to assess if I would take our parents estate to them. I was given a verbal quotation of $40,000 for the company to handle it, with a timeline of 4 months. I proceeded with his word and the first $1 million cash was transferred with 3 properties to be sold. Once this firm received the money the attitude totally changed towards me, now it was in their hands. After years of nothing being done and a bill of fees over $500,000 I had to go through the Supreme Court to get rid of them and go to another firm. If your looking for a firm who will lie to you and use the law system to rob you, this is the firm for you. I’m now on unemployment and suffer major mental health issues from this experience.

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• Anthony Fonovic★★★★★★★★★★1.0Google rating

  March 2023

  Absolutely terrible service. Delayed response to emails, unacceptable speed of service when setting up loan thought ThinkTank and had no choice using this firm. Took so long initial valuation expired resulting in unnecessary cost in ordering 2nd valuation. Promise to refund 1st valuation not realised. End process in paying out loan just as poor. Do yourself a favour and avoid this firm like the plague. Can't believe we actually had to fork out money for this negligence which certainly wasn't cheap

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• Mattie Ho★★★★★★★★★★1.0Google rating

  April 2019

  I am appalled by the way the lawyers of Makinson & d'Apice have conducted themselves. Having provided counselling therapy to a victim of childhood sexual assault two years ago, I still have not received the outstanding amount owed to me by the insurance company these lawyers represent. No amount of sending emails, phone calls and enquiries has yielded any response. As a small business supporting victims of trauma, not receiving payments to the order of thousands of dollars is near impossible. Very disappointing, indeed.

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