06/10/2026
10 years of Domantay Legal ✨
I’ve always been an entrepreneur with a simple passion: helping people and businesses solve real problems and stay protected.
In September 2016 that passion became a firm. I opened Domantay Legal as a sole practitioner — laptop, phone, and a brief to look after clients properly. I didn’t imagine then that trust would turn a one-person practice into a team across Melbourne, Geelong, Brisbane and China.
To every client who put their home, business, family or future in our hands — thank you 🙏. That trust is the only reason this firm exists. You let us into some of the hardest and most hopeful moments of your lives. We have never taken that lightly.
To every staff member past and present — lawyers, conveyancers, operations, admin, and everyone who carried the load when I could not — thank you 🙌. The firm’s character lives in how you treat people when no one is watching.
To the mentors who told me the truth when it was inconvenient: thank you. Growth is rarely a straight line. Your counsel kept the compass pointing the right way. Dwayne Marinucci thank you for being part of this journey for most of DL's existence, how much fun it has been and continues to be, is due to our aligned values and principals!
Starting the practice also opened doors I could not have planned on day one: a New York–based business in ShiftSixOS, an office in Manila, and an eye toward a more tax-friendly jurisdiction in the near future 🌎. Those opportunities exist because clients first trusted a sole practitioner in Melbourne. I do not forget that order.
And to my wife and family - I am thankful most of all❤️. You absorbed the late nights, the risk, the quiet weeks and the chaotic ones. You made room for a business that often asked more than it gave back. I am blessed beyond what I can put in a post.
Ten years in, I remain a business owner, leader and entrepreneur who happens to practise law — not the other way around 🚀⚖️. The work remains the same as day one: solve the problem, prevent the next one, and leave the client better than we found them.
Grateful. Blessed. Still just getting started 🙏✨