“Blackbeard Attorneys Inc promises to deliver specialized legal services based on integrity honesty and experience”

ANTHONY BLACKBEARD (DIRECTOR):

Anthony Blackbeard is the younger of two brothers. He performed well in School in the Jacaranda City and was a very dedicated sportsman achieving great heights in sports. He is a very proud and involved father of a son.

Mr Blackbeard is a duly admitted attorney and was accordingly admitted on 13 June 2002 after completing his LLB degree at the University of Pretoria. Mr Blackbeard was admitted as a Conveyancer on 12 December 2005. He was further admitted as a Notary on 28 February 2013. The qualification as Notary is the highest qualification an attorney can hold in South Africa. He has been in practising in his own practice for excess of 14 of 23 years of practice after being head hunted to work for various firms for a few years, before returning to his own practice.

Mr Blackbeard currently specializes in Commercial Law, High Court and Magistrate Court Litigation, Debt Collections, all Property Law related matters including rental, ownership and disputes, and Labour law matters. He is passionate about conveyancing and the transfer of properties of any nature.

Mr Blackbeard is passionate about his profession and extremely committed to honesty, integrity and justice and ready to assist you with all your legal needs.

If he is not fighting his valuable client’s legal matters, Mr Blackbeard enjoys a game of golf, breaking away for a trial run in nature and cooking up a storm for family and friends.

BIANKA BLACKBEARD (SENIOR ASSOCIATE)

Bianka is the eldest of two daughters. She was born in the Jacaranda City and was lucky enough to stay in Somerset West for a few years before attending the rest of her academic life in Pretoria. She met her husband, also an attorney, in Court, and romance has been a legal affair since. They are parents to a beautiful son who keeps them on their toes with his engineering plans and building machines. Her family means the world to her and they are the reason behind all her choices in life.

You will find Bianka at a farmer’s market over weekends enjoying good food and wine in beautiful scenery. Her hobbies include gardening, growing vegetables especially, reading, crocheting and European Languages. She comes from a long line of European influence, with her mother being German and father Dutch/French. Although not confirmed, she is the grand daughter to a “Mrs Nadal” and although she wishes to claim that she is family to the tennis star, her tennis game does leave much to the imagination.

She decided early in life that Law was her calling and studied in the purple streets of the University of Pretoria earning her degree in 2006 and attending Law School at the same Varsity in 2006. Hereafter she served articles at Fourie Fismer Inc. Her experience grew in terms of litigation at this firm and she was admitted as an attorney in May 2008. She served as an associate with this firm until 2012, when she moved to another firm after six loyal years.

She served with a firm Van Breda & Herbst Inc as an Associate for 10 years and there she worked her way up in a few years to lead a team of 10 attorneys as a Team Manager. She loves people and working with them, getting the best out of them and to work towards a goal. She trained numerous candidate attorneys/attorneys in her tenure as Team Manager, all of whom have since been successfully admitted as attorneys and thriving in their own careers. To have been able to lead these individuals was in her view, the biggest success of all.

She is very loyal and believes in hard work, but believe in balance in enjoying what you are doing at the same time. She believes in doing everything you do with integrity, even if no one is watching! Stay positive and true to yourself, stick to your beliefs and push yourself to be a better version each and every day. “If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten” – Albert Einstein –

WE OFFER A TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE:

By employing the latest state of the art legal software and business systems we are able stay abreast with the latest technological advances in the industry. This ensures the most efficient and productive service is offered to our clients. Our employees undergo on-going training to use the software to encourage better performance and in the end offer the best service possible to our clients. Skills development is an important aspect of the firm’s’ culture. This technological advantage allows us to reduce our carbon footprint and contribute to a greener industry.

FINANCIAL CLARITY:

All funds/monies received on behalf of our clients are received into a legal trust account which in accordance with the Legal Practitioners Act, is registered with the necessary authorities. Blackbeard Inc is in good standing with the Legal Practitioners Council and holds a valid Legal Practitioners Fidelity Fund Certificate. Our trust accounts are regularly audited and certified by our auditors and the Legal Practitioners Council. These audits ensure close monitoring of all accounts and strict due diligence. Clients will receive regular accounts and reports in order to enable them to keep track of their account and legal matter.