Nash Allen Williams & Wotton Solicitors · Since 1957
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More than six decades on the Coast.

Few firms anywhere serve the same community for over sixty years. Fewer still serve the same families across three generations. This one has done both.

Bound volumes of Australian law reports on the firm's shelves, the 1957-58 volume among them
The law reports on our shelves start where the firm does - 1957.

Our story

Since 1957.


The firm has practised on the Central Coast since 1957 - through the region’s growth from a string of coastal towns into the community it is today. The names above the door have changed as partners joined and retired; the standard hasn’t.

Along the way the firm has handled thousands of matters for Coast families and businesses: the homes bought and sold, the wills written and honoured, the businesses started, grown and passed on - and steady guidance through the harder chapters in between.

It is also a firm that grows its own. Peter Wotton was employed by the founder in 1978 and still practises here. Two of Ron Nash’s children became partners. Amanda Carroll joined in 2010 at the front desk and is now an Associate. That continuity is the reason so many clients deal with the same faces decade after decade.

Milestones

How the firm took shape.


  1. 1957

    Ron Nash establishes the practice on the Central Coast.

  2. 1978

    Ron Nash employs Peter Wotton as a solicitor - Peter is still with the firm today.

  3. 1980

    Michael Nash, one of the founder’s ten children, joins as a law clerk.

  4. 1984

    Peter Wotton and Michael Nash both become partners.

  5. 1994

    Dominic Nash completes his Diploma in Law, having joined the firm as a law clerk.

  6. 2002

    Dominic Nash becomes a partner - a second generation of the founding family.

  7. 2016

    Geoff O’Reilly joins following a long career with the NSW Department of Justice.

  8. 2020

    Geoff O’Reilly becomes a partner, completing the current partnership.

  9. Today

    Four partners, supported by experienced solicitors, licensed conveyancers and administration staff, practising from Tuggerah and Budgewoi. Meet the team →

Safe custody

Where the important documents live.


More than 10,000 documents - including original wills, powers of attorney and appointments of enduring guardian - are held in our air-conditioned, access-controlled safe custody room, with room for more.

Holding a client’s original will is a small service and a serious responsibility. For many Coast families, the document that matters most has sat on these shelves for decades, waiting for the day it is needed - and it is exactly where their family can find it.

Wills & estate planning →

Shelving in the firm's access-controlled safe custody room, holding client documents in protective sleeves

“Great results, quietly achieved, since 1957.”

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Sit down with a solicitor, tell your story, and leave knowing where you stand. Enquiring is free, there is no consultation fee for wills, conveyancing, powers of attorney, deceased estates or contested estates, and for other matters an initial consultation is $275 - full costs explained before any work begins.