Former contributor to Practical Guidance Personal Injury New South Wales. Barrister, Sir Owen Dixon Chambers
Richard specialises in common law with a particular interest in medical negligence, public liability, sexual assaults, travel law and immigration detention cases. He is engaged in numerous catastrophic injury and other cases and represents Australian residents injured in Australia and overseas.
Richard is a former NSW State President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance and regularly gives papers at legal seminars and conferences in personal injury related subjects. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales, most States of Australia and Western Samoa. He has chambers in Sydney and London.
Special Counsel, Baker McKenzie
Gillian is a key senior member of Baker McKenzie's IP practice. She specialises in advising clients on brand strategy, trade mark clearances and registration and manages global trade mark portfolios on behalf of her clients. She also represents clients in trade mark opposition proceedings and advises in relation to corporate transactional due diligence projects. Gillian acts for key international clients of the firm including a global FMCG corporation which owns one of the largest brands portfolios in the world, a multinational that owns a number of well-known quick service restaurant brands, a global play and entertainment company with familiar games and entertainment brands and corporations which have portfolios of prestige and renowned cosmetics and beauty care brands.
Mobile: +61 2 8922 5486, +61 466 752 772
Email: gillian.woon@bakermckenzie.com
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Commercial. Formerly Senior Associate, Bartier Perry
Bill has been practising in commercial litigation for over 15 years. He is widely experienced in dispute resolution procedures at a practical and informal level as well as in courts and tribunals. Bill specialises in commercial claims recovery as well as in creditors' remedies against insolvent individuals and companies including bankruptcy and company winding-up procedures.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Commercial. Formerly Partner, Meyer Vandenberg Lawyers
With more than 20 years experience, Alice has worked with entrepreneurs from set up, product development and protection, growth, through to exit. Along the way, she has assisted clients in almost every aspect of carrying on a business - ranging from capital raising, reviewing structures for expansion, and entering new markets in Australia and overseas. As part of this work, she has acquired particular expertise in all aspects of intellectual property.
Alice heads her firm's Corporate and Commercial team and her experience also extends to government and quasi-government organisations, as evidenced in her work with the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Land Development Agency dealing with their commercial and Intellectual Property issues.
During Alice's career she has undertaken complex corporate structural work for leading Canberra businesses and also advised on numerous intellectual property matters.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Personal Injury New South Wales. Former Partner, Sparke Helmore
Grant manages the major claims team at Sparke Helmore, Sydney, and is experienced in advising on catastrophic and major claims covering all areas of personal injury.
He is a frequent contributor to Sparke Helmore's insurance news bulletins and thought leadership pieces, and also leads many workshops and training sessions for clients.
Director, Bedfords Legal
Erin studied law at the Australian National University from 2003 until 2007. She was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws followed by a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice with distinction.
Prior to commencement of her University studies Erin worked at a legal practice in Canberra City and this experience confirmed her interest in the law. During university she worked for KJB Law as a paralegal in a variety of areas and positions and commenced full time work with KJB Law as a solicitor at the beginning of 2008.
Erin's areas of practice include, amongst other areas, estate planning including preparation of wills and enduring powers of attorney.
Solicitor, King & Wood Mallesons
Jessie is a dispute resolution lawyer specialising in competition law, consumer law, insurance law and construction litigation. She has acted for corporate, government and pro bono clients in a number of litigious and advisory matters concerning contraventions of the Australian consumer law, cartel conduct, investigations by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, claims for indemnity under insurance policies and contractual claims.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Commercial. Formerly Proprietor, Simpson Freed Lawyers
Paul was admitted as a solicitor in March 1970 and has been practising for over 40 years. Paul was accredited by the NSW Law Society as a business law specialist in 1993 and has continued with that specialty practice for 17 years.
Paul participated for 8 years as a member of the Business Law Accreditation Committee of the Law Society which conducts the assessments and examinations for accreditation of candidates for specialisation. He also served for a number of years as a committee member on each of the Property Law Committee and the Business Law Committee of the NSW Law Society.
Principal, DGT Costs Lawyers
Kerrie Rosati is regarded as one of the professions leading experts in legal costs law. Kerrie works from both the Sydney and the Brisbane offices. Kerrie is a Court Appointed Costs Assessor in Queensland.
She has acted in and advised on legal costs issues in many high profile and complex cases in New South Wales, Queensland, the ACT and all Federal jurisdictions. Kerrie also lectures regularly to the legal profession (nationally and internationally) on legal costing issues for the Law Societies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory and Tasmania, Legalwise, the College of Law and other commercial seminar providers.
Kerrie is a current member of the Costs Committee and Ethics Committee of the Law Society of NSW and the Costs Advisory Service of the QLS.
Kerrie graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Technology in 1988 and was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales on 1 July 1988.
After working in a large commercial law firm and taking some time off to raise her family, Kerrie joined DGT in February 1998 becoming the principal of the practice in 2007.
Kerrie is also a trained mediator and part of the DGT Costs Mediation team.
Email: kerrie.rosati@dgt.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrie-rosati-5165431b/
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Immigration. Former Special Counsel, Fragomen
Farid is responsible for Fragomen's Litigation & Review Practice. Being one of a small number of solicitors and migration agents who are Accredited Specialists in Immigration Law, Farid has extensive experience in the field.
He has advised on and assisted with applications for a very wide range of visas and other approvals under the migration legislation, and regularly acts for clients in the range of Tribunals and Courts which undertake merits as well as judicial review of migration decisions. Farid oversees Fragomen's work under the Immigration Advice and Application Assistance Scheme (IAAAS). In addition to immigration law, Farid has significant experience in related administrative law areas, including Freedom of Information.
In 2013 Farid was included in the Best Lawyers list for Australia.
Partner, HWL Ebsworth
Christopher has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial property law including corporate sales and acquisitions, leases and agreements for lease, project development agreements, subdivisions and options. He also has significant experience in providing advice in: leasehold transactions, staged strata developments, stratum subdivisions, retirement village and aged care facilities, community title developments and public positive covenants.
Associate, White & Case
Rachel Stanton is an associate in the White & Case Project Development and Finance practice based in Sydney.
Rachel brings extensive experience in front-end major projects and construction matters across both public and private sectors and is well versed dealing with a range of stakeholders and multidisciplinary project teams. She has played a key role in the procurement and delivery of significant infrastructure projects and her diverse portfolio, which includes transport, commercial and residential projects, underscores her versatility and deep understanding of complex project management, and ability to deliver within project budgets and timelines.
Rachel also has experience in energy and resources projects and has worked on the project financing of renewable energy projects.
Awards and RecognitionUniversity Medal (Faculty of Law)
Counsel, Webb Henderson
Diana is a competition, regulatory and dispute resolution lawyer. She has particular expertise in all aspects of competition law, economic regulation and access matters, consumer protection and product safety.
Diana regularly acts for regulators, including the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, and private clients in regulatory investigations and enforcement actions. Diana is also an experienced commercial litigator.
Director/Principal, elevenM
Privacy practice lead of elevenM, Melanie has established and run privacy governance programs for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the National eHealth Transition Authority. Now, Melanie works with Australia’s most prominent brands to manage privacy, data governance and other risks of the digital age and drive innovation. Former President of IAPP ANZ, Melanie has also served on the advisory boards of InfogovANZ and Hello Sunday Morning and is an Expert Advisor to LexisNexis on privacy and data protection.
elevenM Consultinghttps://elevenm.com.au/https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-marks-51427814/
melanie@elevenM.com
Former contributor to Practical Guidance IP, BBiotech (Hons I) GradCertResComm PhD MIP, formerly at Shelston IP
Belinda practices in the field of biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, immunology, molecular and developmental biology, and biotechnology with a strong focus on microbiology, bioengineering and bioprocess design.
She started her academic career with a Bachelors Degree in Biotechnology, as well as an Honours Degree in Biochemistry. This was followed by several years of research into signal transduction and genetic regulation at the ESKITIS Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies at Griffith University, and the Institute of Molecular Biosciences (IMB) at the University of Queensland. It was during this time that Belinda gained extensive experience in mammalian cell biology, including hematopoietic stem cells.
For her doctoral research, Belinda ventured into the field of bioengineering and took on a project at the world-renowned Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), with funding from the European Union’s Sixth Framework Program for Research and Technological Development (FP6). She was awarded her PhD for research into commercially viable manufacturing processes for recombinant bioactive peptides in 2010, along with the Dean’s Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence.
In 2009, Belinda was the recipient of a CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship. During her time at CSIRO Livestock Industries, she worked on a greenhouse gas mitigation project based on the identification and validation of anti-microbial peptides directed towards methanogenic Archaea, overseen by the collaborative research group, RELRP, which included groups from industry and academia.
Formerly Associate, Jones Day
Matthew Whitaker has experience in a range of commercial matters across a broad spectrum of competition law issues in Australia.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Succession. Director, Somerville Legal
Stephen has been a director of Somerville Legal since 2010. He is an Accredited Specialist in wills and estates law, and is a member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners. His extensive experience in estate planning includes the preparation of complex wills, complex applications for probate and letters of administration, and family provision proceedings. In 2009, Stephen was involved in the first case in NSW in which a court-made will was made for someone found to have pre-empted capacity.
Senior Associate, Formerly at Maurice Blackburn
Paul Gillett is a Senior Associate in the Class Actions team of Maurice Blackburn in Melbourne and is currently representing over 160,000 claimants in the bank fees class actions brought against eight of Australia's largest banks, and which resulted in a historic victory in the High Court of Australia which clarified the operation of the doctrine of penalties.
Paul has over 12 years of practice and expertise in retail banking and finance, consumer credit, consumer protection, trade practices, personal insolvency and debt recovery.
Prior to joining Maurice Blackburn, Paul was employed as Director of Legal Practice for the Consumer Action Law Centre where he managed Australia's largest specialist consumer litigation practice, and one of the country's largest public interest law practices.
He has authored consumer and credit law chapters of LexisNexis Practical Guidance online, the Fitzroy Legal Service Law Handbook, and the Lawyers Practice Manual Victoria, and is an experienced speaker and educator, having lectured or spoken at a variety of conferences, seminars and institutions, including the Leo Cussen Institute and in the University of Melbourne Master of Laws program.
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