The Board of AF Legal Group Ltd. announced its expansion to South Australia with the opening of a new office in Adelaide in August 2020. The Adelaide office will be led by lateral hire and highly respected family law practitioner Shelley O'Connell. Mrs. O'Connell is a Past President of the Women Lawyers' Association (SA) and sat on that organization's managing committee from 2006 to 2018. She was a Member of the Council of the Law Society of South Australia (2008 to 2015) and was also elected to its Executive from 2011 to 2012. She served for several years on other Law Society Committees including the Country Practitioners Committee, the Family Law Committee and the Women Lawyers Committee. More recently in 2020, she was recognized as a rising star in Family Law in Doyles Guide.