People

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

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

Patrick has far-reaching experience advising government and corporate clients on the formal and informal resolution of all manner of commercial disputes.

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

Sean is a senior adjudicator under security of payment legislation in seven of Australia’s States and Territories, and has acted in more than 300 adjudications with amounts in dispute up to $100m.

Megan conducts complex commercial litigation in all Australian courts, including multi-party litigation, and handles dispute resolution through expert determination, mediation and arbitration where po ...

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

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 ...

Joel is an experienced projects lawyer who advises principals and contractors on the structuring, documentation and delivery of major construction, procurement and services projects.

Phillip has a broad commercial practice with a particular specialisation in building and construction.

Joan’s insurance practice focuses on indemnity disputes, public liability, product liability and professional indemnity claims arising from diverse circumstances.

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

Angela works in construction and building law, working across both front end advisory work as well as handling litigation of construction and engineering claims.

Christopher is experienced and registered as both an architect and a solicitor, bringing a unique perspective to his work on his clients’ array of construction, infrastructure and projects matters.

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