Carmelo Barbante
Founding Director – LLB (Melb)Carmelo founded Barbante Personal Injury Lawyers in 1980 and has spent more than four decades acting for injured Victorians across the Goulburn Valley and the north-east.
He opened the firm in Shepparton with a simple conviction. People who are hurt at work, on the road, or through someone else’s negligence deserve a lawyer who knows them, knows the region, and will not be outlasted by an insurer.
“In forty-five years I have learned that an injured person needs two things from a lawyer: the truth about where they stand, and someone who will not let the insurer wear them down. We give them both.”
In more than forty-five years of practice, Carmelo has acted for thousands of injured Victorians and built one of regional Victoria’s most established plaintiff personal injury practices. He brings his considerable knowledge and understanding to bear across all types of personal injury claims, in particular WorkCover, TAC and public liability. The firm has never acted for an insurer, and it never will.
Carmelo and the firm regularly issue proceedings in the County Court and the Supreme Court of Victoria, at Shepparton, Wangaratta, Wodonga and Melbourne, running the full spread of compensation work, from common law damages claims to serious injury applications.
What began as a one-person practice is now a family firm in its second generation, with the next generation of the Barbante family working alongside him. The standard has not changed. Prepare every matter thoroughly, give every client honest, considered advice, and never accept less than a claim is worth.
Few lawyers in regional Victoria carry the experience Carmelo does. Generations of local families have turned to him in their hardest moments, and that trust, earned over more than forty-five years, is something he has never taken lightly.
Practice areas
Credentials
Qualifications — Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Melbourne
Languages — English and Italian
Speak with Carmelo directly on (03) 5831 1633 or get in touch online.