Gino Raymond Moro

Background

Gino Raymond Moro was born in 1949 in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, Australia. He later studied law in Queensland, the state in which his legal career developed on the Gold Coast, a coastal city in south-eastern Queensland.

Education

Moro studied law at the University of Queensland, completing a Bachelor of Laws and graduating in 1974. The university was established by an act of the Queensland Parliament on 10 December 1909 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Queensland's separation from New South Wales, and its first classes were held in 1911 at Government House in Brisbane.

Queensland's first university law school was established in 1935 within the university's Faculty of Law, so Moro's studies took place within one of the state's early university routes into legal training. He was admitted to practice in 1974 by the Queensland Supreme Court after completing articles of clerkship, the supervised practical training that Australian lawyers undertook before admission.

Career

Moro completed his articles of clerkship at Hill Collas Bradley & Short in Brisbane before being admitted in March 1974. He then began his career as a solicitor at Hill Collas on the Gold Coast in 1974, where he worked until he became a partner in 1977.

The Collas practice had been founded in 1951 by Peter Collas and David Hill in Miles, a country town in western Queensland, and opened its first Gold Coast office in 1953. Moro became a partner in 1977 and remained a partner as the practice passed through successor names up to Collas Moro Ross. His practice covered business law, commercial litigation, property and land law, including town planning, subdivisions and developments, and he is an Accredited Property Law Specialist. The Queensland Law Society introduced its specialist accreditation program in 1995.

In 2022, after 44 years as a partner, Moro became a consultant to the firm. The firm marked its 75th anniversary in 2026 and was renamed Collas Moro Ross Barron, with partners Bill Ross and Chris Barron. Its services include litigation, commercial law, insolvency, property law, family law, wills and estates, and personal injury.

Achievements

• The firm has named Moro among the leading practitioners it helped bring through the legal profession over its history, alongside other senior figures associated with the practice.

Membership

Moro is an honorary member of the Queensland Law Society, the professional association for solicitors in Queensland. The society originated as an informal meeting of Brisbane solicitors in 1873, was incorporated in 1927, and today also carries statutory responsibilities for the regulation of the legal profession under the Legal Profession Act 2007.

He has been a member of the Law Council of Australia, the national peak body representing Australian lawyers. He is also a past president of the Gold Coast Law Association, a local association of solicitors on the Gold Coast.

Moro served as honorary solicitor and patron of the Gold Coast Italo-Australia Club and the Gold Coast Show Society, two Gold Coast organisations.

• Honorary member

  Queensland Law Society , Australia

  March, 2024

• Past president

  Gold Coast Law Association , Australia

• Member

  Law Council of Australia , Australia

• Honorary solicitor and patron

  Gold Coast Italo-Australia Club , Australia

• Honorary solicitor and patron

  Gold Coast Show Society , Australia

Connections

Moro's younger brother, Robert, joined Collas Moro Ross as a solicitor in late 1980 and later became one of the firm's partners, so the two brothers were both associated with the same practice.

Brother:

Robert Moro

Joined Collas Moro Ross as a solicitor in late 1980 and later became a partner of the firm.

References

• Surveying his career options Queensland Law Society magazine profile covering Moro's law studies, his move to the Gold Coast firm, his partnership, his property and business law practice, and his honorary membership.
  2024
• Years of experience recognised Report on the Legal Profession Dinner at which Moro and four other practitioners received honorary Queensland Law Society memberships, with an account of his legal education and career.
  2024
• Gold Coast firm marks 75th anniversary with rebranding Announcement of the firm's renaming as Collas Moro Ross Barron, describing Moro's long service, his partnership and his honorary membership.
  2026
• Queensland Law Society register of solicitors Register entry identifying Gino Raymond Moro as a solicitor practising in property law with Collas Moro Ross Barron.
• Collas Moro Ross Barron website The firm's website describes its origins in 1951, its Gold Coast history and Moro's 50 years of service as a legal practitioner in Queensland.