Marissa accepts briefs in most areas of civil, commercial and administrative law and has extensive experience in taxation, banking and finance, bankruptcy and corporate insolvency, administrative law and regulatory litigation. She also has a keen interest in employment and migration.

She has completed a Master of Laws specialising in Corporate, Commercial and Taxation law and has appeared as an advocate and instructing solicitor in a number of jurisdictions from the Magistrates Court and various Tribunals through to the High Court.

Marissa was admitted to practice in June 2009. She started working as a law clerk at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in confiscations before commencing as a lawyer in a general legal practice.

She spent over five years at the ATO working as a lawyer in the Review and Dispute Resolution team conducting complex taxation disputes and debt litigation before taking over as Managing Solicitor at Hudson Lawyers, a boutique debt recovery and insolvency incorporated legal practice.

Marissa worked at ASIC as an Executive Level Lawyer in Financial Services Enforcement between 2016 and 2019. Her work involved the conduct of litigation and investigations against suspected misconduct and contraventions of the ASIC Act 2001, Corporations Act 2001 and National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 across a number of matters including misleading and deceptive conduct, unconscionable conduct, responsible lending obligations, fraud and directors’ duties.

Prior to joining the Independent Bar, Marissa was selected to undertake the Step Up to the Bar Program, an initiative of the Chief Justice and the South Australian Bar Association targeted at experienced female lawyers prior to pursuing a career as a barrister where she had the opportunity to work closely with various members of the Judiciary across both criminal and civil jurisdictions on complex cases and develop interests in other practice areas including employment, migration and inquisitorial matters.

Marissa also worked as a Principal Solicitor at Norman Waterhouse Lawyers in its Commercial and Tax Team.

Marissa is a sessional member at the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, the Immediate Past President of the Law Society of South Australia, a former president of the Women Lawyers Association of South Australia,  and an Executive Council member of the Law Society of South Australia.

She has also previously been a facilitator of the University of Adelaide/Law Society’s GDLP Banking and Finance Course and Corporate and Commercial Course.