Career highlights

• Royal Commissions
  Extensive experience advising clients in response to Notices to Produce before Royal Commissions, notably the Aged Care Quality and Safety Royal Commission, the Disability Royal Commission, the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry, the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme, the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, and most recently the Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion Royal Commission. Involvement across these engagements includes advising clients to ensure best practice data collection and governance methodologies while ensuring adherence to strict protocol requirements and aggressive deadlines.
• Regulatory responses
  Broad experience assisting clients to respond to regulators including ASIC, the ACCC, ATO, AER, APRA, and ICAC. This experience spans the full spectrum of the EDRM - from the preservation and collection of data through to the isolation and review of material responsive to regulatory notices, adherence to the production guidelines required in those notices, and managing the timeframes necessary to meet regulatory requirements.
• Government Standing Order electronic discovery services
  Managed over a number of years multiple Standing Order engagements across various NSW Government Departments involving the collection, processing, review and production of high volumes of documents under parliamentary deadlines, including understanding and adhering to the often-complex requirements around the identification of personal information, privilege, and cabinet material requiring further assessment and exclusion from those productions.
• Large-scale Government asset sales and corporate transactions
  Led deal room management for several landmark government asset sales nationally, including the Port of Brisbane, Port of Melbourne, large airport sales, and numerous significant mining asset sales. These engagements involved managing highly complex security and permission structures within virtual data rooms to ensure a smooth and structured sale process.
• Class actions
  Experience working on multiple class actions across a range of industries, working with clients to identify, process, review and produce documents in relation to those proceedings. This includes managing large and complex data sets, coordinating with review teams on review strategy, and ensuring production workflows are tailored to the unique requirements of the class action.
• Boards of inquiry
  Led teams of legal technology experts in response to large-scale government inquiries and boards of inquiry involving high volumes of Notices to Produce under compressed timeframes. This work requires complex data handling, collection, processing, review, redaction and production workflows, with streamlined processes enabling multiple review teams to work across notice responses and witness statements in tandem.
• Construction disputes and commercial litigation
  Experience acting for clients in high-profile construction disputes and commercial litigations, particularly dealing with high-volume data footprints across multiple proprietary systems and working to transform and uplift that data into a format that can be reviewed and discovered as part of the proceedings. Also experienced in managing multi-party databases as part of those proceedings and the complexities that accompany them.
• Cyber, data governance and emerging technologies
  Experience across engagements requiring a heavy forensics lens, including matters involving close collaboration with regulators regarding the format and reviewability of data. This includes developing privilege review strategies to ensure all privileged material is appropriately identified and managed in advance of regulatory review, and advising legal teams and clients on how best to manage complex data sets where volume, sensitivity, and format present significant challenges.
• AI-assisted document review
  Engaged by a government agency to assist in responding to a large-scale discovery obligation under significant time pressure. Leveraged MinterEllison's in-house AI review technology alongside traditional eDiscovery workflows to review a substantial volume of documents that could not have been completed by human reviewers alone within the required timeframe without disproportionate cost. Validated the AI-generated output using established eDiscovery quality control methods and statistical sampling, delivering a defensible and cost-effective result for the client within an accelerated timeline.