Johnston Withers & Associates

Specialties

We are a people law firm — providing legal support and advice to people in their workplaces, in their businesses, in their families and in their lives.

History

Established in 1946.

Johnston Withers was founded in Adelaide in 1946 by Elliot Johnston QC. Elliot was later joined by his wife Elizabeth and the firm of Johnston & Johnston practised throughout the 1950s until Elizabeth took up a role at the Crown Law Office. They both had extensive backgrounds in Union organisations.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the firm grew through its employment, workers compensation and personal injury work and was closely involved with numerous Unions and the Union movement generally. It also extended its work into criminal and family law.

The firm evolved and expanded throughout the 1980s and 1990s under the stewardship of Brian Withers. During this time Johnston Withers broadened its services to incorporate a commercial and property section including conveyancing, wills and estates, food and wine law and defamation. It also developed strong relationships with Aboriginal communities in pursuing native title and land rights claims.