We combine legal expertise with industry knowledge to support commercial outcomes for our clients.

Madelaine August

    Madelaine has significant expertise across all aspects of workplace and industrial law, including workers compensation, employment issues, industrial relations and occupational health and safety.

    Derek Collins

      Derek is a senior lawyer practising across multiple areas for insurance organisations and state and local government agencies.

      Nick Duggal

        Nick leads our national Workplace practice. He has an excellent understanding of time and cost pressures facing employers, insurers and government.

        Vidal Hockless

          Vidal is a damages litigation lawyer with extensive experience in workers’ compensation/employers’ indemnity, coverage and contractual indemnity issues, public and products liability, CTP insurance cl ...

          Phil Keays

            Phil is the Managing Partner of the firm’s Perth office. He has extensive experience in insurance litigation, especially in the areas of professional indemnity, product liability and public liability.

            Ben Mason

              Ben specialises in Government and Administrative Law / Public Law. He advises government clients in relation to a range of policy, regulatory, legislation and litigation matters.

              Richard Midgley

                Richard has a depth of expertise in handling commercial disputes with a focus on achieving commercial and cost-effective outcomes.

                Lara Mynott

                  Lara is an experienced insurance litigator and acts for all types of professionals, non-professionals and organisations.

                  Jeremy Peck

                    Jeremy is a highly skilled insurance law practitioner and has over 20 years' experience working in both in-house and private practice roles.

                    Emma Reilly

                      Emma acts in defence of professional indemnity and personal injury insurance claims and for employers and Government in workplace and industrial law matters.

                      Lauren Smith

                        Lauren is an experienced insurance litigator who has worked across numerous business lines in various jurisdictions, although she primarily practices in the ACT.

                        Adam Stevens

                          Adam specialises in medical negligence litigation with extensive experience and expertise in defending medical practitioners and health service providers in the Victorian medical negligence jurisdicti ...

                          Rosemary Waldron-Hartfield

                            Rosemary specialises in commonwealth compensation, merits review, public liability and industrial disease claims.

                            Howard Obst

                              Howard is one of Victoria’s most experienced litigators, with more than four decades of legal experience.

                              Brian Jackson

                                Brian is a prominent lawyer in human resources, industrial relations and employment law, advising, representing and appearing as counsel for clients across the various sectors.

                                Michael Martin

                                  Michael has almost four decades of expertise in insurance law, particularly defending / resolving claims for compensation for personal injury and in property damage claims.