Whether handling legal issues related to individual employees or the workforce as a whole, I am committed to helping clients achieve the best possible outcome for their organisation. In recent years, this has involved a particular focus on advising clients in relation to strategically significant matters such as enterprise bargaining, industrial disputes and the implementation of organisational change.

I am also an expert litigator, with extensive experience in successfully defending (or otherwise resolving) high-profile litigation against organisations and their senior executives.

 Career highlights

• Acting for the Victorian Government in relation to the transfer of employees as part of the highly successful lease of the Port of Melbourne to the private sector
• Assisting various employers with the implementation of significant restructures and/or workplace change, as well as managing the employment related components of share and asset sales
• Advising a broad range of public and private sector clients – including the Department of Defence (Cth); Australian Tax Office; Department of Education and Training (Victoria); EnergyAustralia; Patties Foods; VicForests; WorkSafe Victoria; Yarra Valley Water and Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network – on legal and strategic issues related to enterprise agreement negotiations with highly unionised workforces, including managing protected and unprotected industrial action
• Advising EnergyAustralia on its successful defence (both at first instance and on appeal to the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia) in Kate Shea v EnergyAustralia Services Pty Ltd, one of the most high-profile employment claims in recent years