Former contributor to Practical Guidance Family. Partner, DDCS Lawyers
Lois Clifford is a director of Dobinson Davey Clifford Simpson and has over 25 years experience practising as a lawyer with the last 20 years focusing on family law. She has been an Accredited Family Law Specialist with the NSW Law Society since 1994.
Currently Lois serves on the Family Law and Professional Complaints Committees of the ACT Law Society. She is also member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council, and the Women Lawyers Association of the ACT, as well as a panel lawyer with the Women's Legal Centre. Lois has alspresented papers at specialist family law conferences.
Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright
Stephen is a corporate technology lawyer based in Sydney. His practice focuses on advising businesses, funds and strategic investors/buyers in relation to M&A and investment work in the tech sector. He has extensive networks with VCs, private equity funds and banks. Prior to joining Norton Rose Fulbright, he was a senior in-house counsel to UK’s largest listed investment manager.
Stephen has also represented the Federal Government, investment and commercial banks, funds and companies in various corporate finance and securitisation matters. In addition, Stephen has led and overseen teams working on international and domestic bond transactions, leveraged loan deals, mergers & acquisitions, litigation, complex restructurings and dealings with local regulators, governments and The IMF.
He was an advisory board member for: xbullion, a blockchain settlement layer; Shape History, a for-purpose social impact consultancy; and was a guest lecturer at London Business School. Stephen is admitted as a solicitor in NSW, Australia and in England & Wales.
Email: stephen.pattersonfang@nortonrosefulbright.com
Phone: +61 2 9330 8536
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Criminal. Barrister, formerly at Coldrey Chambers
Paul J. Smallwood is a barrister at the Victorian Bar who practises in public law, in particular criminal law and administrative law. He has appeared in a number of cases before the Supreme Court of Victoria, in both the Trial Division and Court of Appeal. Those cases include:
Another case - R v Creamer [2011] VSC 196 - was reviewed in K Toole, ‘Self Defence and the Reasonable Woman: Equality before the New Victorian Law’ (2012) 36 Melbourne University Law Review 250.
Paul is the Secretary of Liberty Victoria. He holds a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Employment. Partner, formerly at Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Kathryn has worked in workplace relations law since 2006 and joined the Corrs Chambers Westgarth Workplace Relations group in 2008, following a break from practice in employment law to obtain her Master of Laws as a Menzies Scholar in the United Kingdom. Kathryn has been involved in providing advice on a number of aspects of workplace relations law including all aspects of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), industrial strategy and collective bargaining, contract and executive employment matters, and discrimination and workplace diversity. Kathryn works with clients across a range of industries, including non-profit community organisations, mining, telecommunications, and contract services.
Partner, Jones Day
Prudence Smith is a highly experienced competition law practitioner who advises clients on a full range of competition regulatory law issues. She has extensive experience in merger clearance, cartel and anticompetitive conduct investigations and litigation, ACCC immunities, authorizations, and notifications of contracts affecting competition.
Prudence's background includes more than 14 years at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), many of those years as an ACCC internal lawyer.
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/
Barrister, Owen Dixon Chambers West
Prior to being called to the Bar, Reiko worked in Australia, the United States and Japan in cross-jurisdictional matters involving international transactions and corporate compliance. She holds a LL.B. from Waseda University and an LL.M. from UCLA Law, and was admitted as an attorney at law in the state of New York in 2011.
She regularly appears in civil, criminal and administrative law matters at all levels and in a number of different jurisdictions such as the Magistrates Court, County Court, Supreme Court, Federal Circuit Court, Children’s Court, and VCAT. She advises in matters including insurance claims, professional negligence and contractual disputes, among others.
In addition to her practice, Reiko is a Lecturer and Tutor at Monash University for Property Law, Contract Law, Administrative Law, Equity, Evidence, and Australian Legal Reasoning and Methods (LL.B. and J.D. courses).
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Insolvency & Restructuring, Partner, Piper Alderman
Angelina is a Partner in Piper Alderman's national Dispute Resolution team.
Her expertise is in formal insolvency appointments, corporate restructurings, complex commercial litigation and insolvency risk advice. A focus of Angelina’s practice is working for liquidators, voluntary administrators, receivers and secured creditors as well as corporate clients in both contentious and non-contentious matters.
In addition, Angelina provides advice and representation to commercial clients and individuals in connection with a variety of matters including shareholder disputes, debt recovery and contractual disputes.
Angelina has acted in a number of high profile matters, appearing before both the Supreme and Federal Courts in both New South Wales and Victoria. She has assisted numerous directors of companies facing financial distress to find commercial solutions to complex issues. Angelina prides herself on being pragmatic, solution driven and on her ability to build solid and trusting relationships with her clients, whether those clients are themselves professional services providers or individuals facing a challenging situation.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Business. Founding Partner, Somerville Legal Solicitors & Notaries
After becoming qualified in 1975, Tim became a partner in a medium size city firm. In 1983 Tim established Somerville & Co. The firm rapidly grew to be the largest firm in North Sydney.
Tim is an accredited specialist in business law and provides business and taxation advice to small and medium sized businesses. He was president of the North Metropolitan Law Society from 2005 to 2009 and has served on the Law Society Committee for specialist accreditation in business law.
Principal, Wills & Probate Victoria
Ken is the Founder and principal of Wills & Probate Victoria. Ken was admitted to practice as a legal practitioner in 1982. Since admission, Ken has always practiced in the areas of wills and estates.
Ken has been accredited by the Law Institute of Victoria as a wills and estate specialist since 1993 - the first year that accreditation commenced. He is the co-author of the Wills, Probate and Administration Service, Victoria, a two-volume publication which is a leading loose-leaf services dealing with wills and estates for legal practitioners in Victoria.
Ken is also the co-author of Succession Law for LexisNexis. He founded the Wills & Probate Bulletin in 1996 and was the editor of that publication from 1996 to 2008. He was also co-convenor of the Wills & Probate Conference from 1995 to 2008.
Since 1997, Ken has conducted regular workshops for law graduates in the areas of wills and estates for Leo Cussen.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Criminal. Solicitor and Accredited Criminal Law Specialist, Couper Geysen
Julia began her career working as a taxation and management accountant in major accounting firms, investment banks and public companies both in Australia and London. She then spent 7 years working as a Senior Financial Investigator with the WA Police and the Crime and Corruption Commission in Brisbane, primarily focusing on organised crime and confiscation proceedings.
Julia commenced practice as a criminal lawyer in 2007 at a boutique criminal law practice. In 2014 she established a criminal law division within an existing firm. She represents clients in all areas of criminal law with a special focus on financial and white-collar crime.
In 2014 Julia successfully completed the program run by the Queensland Law Society to become an Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law.
Partner, Webb Henderson
Tom has particular experience acting in commercial contractual disputes, competition litigation actions conducted under Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act (2010) (Cth) (CCA), including cartel conduct, misuse of market power and exclusive dealing, consumer law actions under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), including misleading or deceptive and unconscionable conduct, shareholder disputes, advising on and acting in disputes under the Franchising Code of Conduct, acting claims against directors and related issues under the Corporations Act (2001) (Cth), negligence claims and in administrative law matters.
Tom has acted for clients across a broad range of sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), technology, manufacturing, energy and telecommunications.
Tom has represented and advised both the ACCC and private clients in relation to competition and consumer law issues, including merger clearances, responding to s 155 notices and enforcement actions under Part IV of the CCA and the ACL.
Principal, Legal Aid Queensland
David began his career at Legal Aid Queensland is 1995 as part of the graduate intake of that year. He was admitted to the bar in November 1997. In 2000 he was appointed to the role Principal Lawyer and Mentor of the Graduate team with in the criminal law division of Legal Aid Queensland. In 2010 he was asked to take over the role of Principal Lawyer, Youth Legal Aid, a specialist youth justice team within the criminal division. David presents regularly on youth justice issues throughout Queensland to both lawyers and the general community.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Personal Injury Queensland. Special Counsel, formerly at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
Margaret Brain commenced legal practice as a solicitor in Brisbane in 1981 and has worked exclusively in the area of personal injuries.
As Special Counsel at Maurice Blackburn she specialises in medical negligence claims particularly those involving catastrophic injury.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Personal Injury New South Wales. Partner, Hall & Wilcox
With more than 20 years of 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.
Principal, Grindal Legal
Sam's practice now focuses primarily on all aspects of property law. He advises a diverse range of clients on the acquisition and sale of commercial and residential property, retirement villages, adverse possession claims, subdivisions and multi-level off the plan inner city apartment projects. Sam has acted for landlords in relation to CBD property leasing arrangements and the eventual sale of those properties. He also advises both landlords and tenants on their obligations under the law and their leases. Sam is accredited as Property Law Specialist with the Law Institute of Victoria.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Employment. Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Janine is an exceptional workplace relations practitioner. With an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the regulatory framework of workplace relations in Australia, Janine combines excellent technical and analytical skills to deal with complex legal issues in this challenging area of law. In particular, Janine has been involved in high-profile matters involving large-scale, complex employment law and industrial relations issues for Amcor Ltd; drafting of submissions in relation to the exceptions and exemptions in the Equal Opportunity Act 1995 for the Catholic Education Office and conduct of the Coronial Inquest into the level crossing deaths at Kerang, Trawalla and Stony Point for V/Line Pty Ltd.
Contributor to Practical Guidance Business. Partner, Hamilton Locke
Jo specialises in M&A, joint ventures and capital raisings and works with clients to get “investor-ready” and “deal-ready”. She regularly helps clients with shareholder arrangements, governance arrangements that allow businesses to scale and grow as well as exits and acquisitions.
Jo is well experienced in working on both sides of the spectrum, working with both founders and private capital, and has a pragmatic and commercial approach in finding solutions for her clients. She also has extensive experience helping boards navigate regulatory environments, corporate governance and disclosure obligations for listed companies.
Jo has experience working with clients undertaking Energy M&A, particularly in renewable energy. Jo has extensive expertise working with clients across a range of other industry sectors including financial services, industrials and healthcare. She has previously worked in Hong Kong, where she enhanced her international capability helping clients implement their acquisition and divestment strategies in the Asian market and advised on listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.