Between 1996 and 2001 she practiced in the areas of Family Law, Debt Recovery & Criminal Law in the dual role of Barrister and Solicitor in Sri Lanka.

In 2001 she migrated to Australia and completed the Graduate Certificate in Applied Law in the University of Queensland in 2002. She also received the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Queensland University of Technology in 2002 and was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland in July 2002.

She served for a short while as a research assistant in the Centre for Public International and Comparative Law at the University of Queensland before commencing her career as a Solicitor in Queensland.

Thushani practices in the following areas;