Rhanee is a solicitor in private practice. Her area of focus is criminal law, with a special interest in miscarriages of justice. She has also worked previously in the areas of personal injury and workers compensation, insurance and superannuation, employment and industrial relations, administrative law, elder law and dealt with a range of novel property and contractual disputes.

Rhanee is also a PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle. Her PhD research is a critical analysis of post-conviction review mechanisms in New South Wales. As a result of Rhanee’s direct involvement in post-conviction review as a solicitor for Kathleen Folbigg (a woman wrongly convicted of killing her four children in 2003), she is evaluating the effectiveness of existing post-conviction review mechanisms and considering proposals for reform.

Rhanee is also a sessional academic at Newcastle Law School. She has taught in the areas of property and tort law, legal system and method, and has been a guest lecturer on matters involving criminal law and ethics