2025 - 1 - Danielle JAKU-GREENFIELD, Family Dispute Practitioner, Australia

DANIELLE JAKU-GREENFIELD

Danielle is a nationally accredited mediator and family dispute resolution practitioner. Following some years working in print journalism, Danielle started her journey in family law and wills and estates. Since 2002, she has worked in family law in various capacities, starting as a solicitor in both private practice and in a community legal centre, as well as duty solicitor at the Family Court. After two years in Cambridge, UK, from where she completed her Master of Laws by thesis, she moved into mediation, becoming a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, in 2007.
Danielle has mediated since then in both private practice and the community sector and written and published books for children of separating families. Danielle has lectured in undergraduate family law, and since 2010 in postgraduate family law at The College of Law. Since 2014, she has also been training future mediators and providing group and individual supervision.
Currently, she spends most of her week in community sector family dispute resolution, offering an exclusively online and subsidised mediation service to separated parents all over Australia, especially to regional and remote areas and the disability community. She also contributes to negotiation workshops at UNSW, coaches for The College of Law in their Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution and the National Mediation Accreditation course, and she co-presents webinars and workshops to solicitors about legally assisted mediation.
Danielle’s private practice is now focused on individual conflict coaching for anyone walking into a difficult conversation.
In her spare time, Danielle escapes to the bush or the beach with her husband, three kids and two dogs.