Amy Soong

FANZCN | Legal Practice Director | Notary Public | L.L.B (Hons), L.L.M, BBus (Accy), GradDipLP (QUT)

Amy graduated with honours in a dual degree of Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Business from QUT. She also completed a Master of Laws and has undertaken the Bar Practice Course. She has been admitted as a legal practitioner to the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia for over 16 years. 

During this time, she has practised exclusively as a criminal defence lawyer in all State and Commonwealth crime. Amy has extensive experience in representing clients for a wide range of serious offences, having worked for a large criminal law firm for 6 years and then establishing Ashworth Lawyers in 2014.

During this time, Amy has appeared in numerous courts and jurisdictions in Queensland, and also travelled to represent clients in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. 

Amy has represented clients charged in large scale drug operations, transnational organised crime, rape and other sexual violence, sophisticated and high-value fraud offences, and aviation offences. Amy also has extensive experience in white-collar crime, including Food Act prosecutions, tax offences, and ASIC investigations. Amy has represented clients in CCC coercive hearings and coronial inquests. 

Amy is focused and is highly organised and has strong attention to detail to cases. Her strength is to explore all options and believes that thorough and meticulous preparation is the key to achieving the best outcomes for clients. She will always look for alternative processes which may end the matter early for clients to save stress, time, and costs. This includes having successfully negotiated or mediated cases so that they are discontinued from the court. 

She is sensitive to the highly stressful and foreign nature of the criminal law process to most clients and so understands that working closely with clients and maintaining regular communication is important.  

She is always looking for new arguments and perspectives for a client’s case. Her extensive court experience means that she can anticipate what the prosecutor will likely argue, and knows what arguments will likely be persuasive to a court.

She is a fellow of The Australian and New Zealand College of Notaries and is an active member of the Queensland Law Society Wellbeing Working Group, dedicated to supporting QLS in strengthening the health and wellbeing of fellow practitioners. Click here to connect with Amy on LinkedIn or to learn more about her experience.