Modules:

• Criminal

Biography:

Josh has practised exclusively in Criminal Law since beginning practice in 2006. He is now a partner at the firm Doogue O’Brien George, serving as the firm’s in-house counsel.

Josh has specialised in representing his clients at trial. The bulk of his practice now involves defending clients who are pleading not guilty. This can mean defending clients in Magistrates’ Court hearings or running their cases in jury trials in the County Court. As an advocate, Josh has specialised in indictable crime, including violence (assaults, armed robberies, aggravated burglaries), drug matters, and sexual offences, especially rape charges.

Josh is the vice-chair of the criminal law section executive of the Law Institute of Victoria. He is accredited as a specialist in the criminal law by the same institute. In 2014 Josh attended the National Criminal Defense College in the USA and completed their Trial Practice course.

Biography:

Recent transactions include:

• Acting for Blackgold International in relation to its Scheme of Arrangement involving Vibrant Group Limited in Singapore.
• Acting for the share vendors in relation to the sale of JRB Engineering and MRX Technologies to Siemens in Germany.
• Acting for BBX Minerals in relation to its successful defence against a takeover bid launched by Drake Private Investments.

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

Tamara specialises in regulatory investigations, litigation, and commercial advice in relation to Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act and the Australian Consumer Law. She regularly helps clients navigate major litigation, advises on commercial strategy, and supports clients through complex regulatory investigations by the ACCC and other regulators in the Asia Pacific region. Tamara has acted in cartel and consumer law matters involving regulators and class action litigants, balancing clients’ commercial objectives against the technical legal landscape and risk matrix.

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Rory is a computer systems and geophysics expert and registered Australian and New Zealand patents and trade marks attorney. Rory has experience drafting, filing and prosecuting patents in Australia, New Zealand and overseas. Due to working with contentious subject matter such as software and machine learning algorithms, Rory has knowledge and extensive practice experience in subject matter eligibility across many large jurisdictions such as Europe, and the US.

Modules:

• Personal Injury VIC

Biography:

Hayriye was admitted to practice in 2010 and runs a complex financial services and insurance litigation practice, predominantly comprising Life, TPD and income protection insurance disputes, as well as general insurance, financial advice and bank scams. Through her tenacious advocacy, Hayriye holds insurers and financial firms accountable for illustrating poor conduct and operating in a manner contrary to the interests of her clients.

In 2017, Hayriye ran a leading Supreme Court case where the successful judgment (at first instance and on appeal) benefitted her client and 8,000 other members of the super fund who received vastly more generous retirement and disability benefits as a result.

Hayriye actively contributes to consumer advocacy and media commentary on various issues including non-disclosure reforms to the Insurance Contracts Act, the pitfalls of general insurance in the wake of natural disasters, and how operating a business from home might void a home a contents insurance policy. Hayriye has seen the devastating impact of unpaid super and is determined to heighten awareness of this issue.

Hayriye is sensitive to the overwhelming financial and emotional impact that rejected and drawn-out claims have on her clients and understands that insurance and financial services are a difficult area to navigate, especially for those who are from a culturally and racially marginalised background, in addition to any other socio-economic barriers they face. Hayriye is determined to empathetically listen to the challenges her clients face so she can improve the consumer landscape and extend access to justice.

Speaking Engagements

Some of my presentations to LegalWise & ALA:

1. Presented to Legal Wise CLE/CPD ACCREDITATION: Total and Permanent Disability and Superannuation Law Fundamentals on 23 February 2023
2. Presented a Legal Wise webinar, Life After the Hayne Royal Commission, 27 March 2020
3. Presented at Legalwise seminar, Super & Insurance 2020 Update, 30 October 2020
4. Presented at Legalwise Seminar, The Effect of Income Protection Recovery and Subrogation on Common Law Claims, 19 November 2019
5. Presented a Paper at ALA Victorian Conference 5 May 2019, “Insurance within Super – What has been happening and where are we headed with it?”

Below are some links to some media and other community work I have done:

The Project -

https://www.facebook.com/TheProjectTV/videos/1142506089944066/v

Break the Bias video for IWD -

https://twitter.com/YouCanCountOnMB/status/1501026145328066567

Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/23-tpd-income-protection-with-hayriye-uluca-state/id1528238284?i=1000530572344

ATBC – MC of Ramadan Iftar Dinner

http://www.atbc.org.au/events/atbc-ramadan-iftar-dinner-2022

MHFA webinar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO6NTLO3sP0

Modules:

• Corporations

Biography:

Nicole has assisted in the formation, acquisition and disposal of businesses and companies operating in a variety of industry sectors, including manufacturing, agribusiness, distribution, and not-for-profit.

She also works with private businesses, partnerships, joint ventures, associations and not-for-profit organisations in relation to corporate governance and structuring. She has experience preparing governance and regulatory documents and advising in relation to issues such as share rights and directors' duties and liabilities.

Nicole is often involved with reviewing and drafting a range of commercial agreements and contract terms for clients involved in a wide variety of industries.

Biography:

Diana has been practicing as a family lawyer since 2005, and has played a significant role in many major family law matters. She is experienced with property settlements and has helped manage complex asset pools ranging from $70,000 to $1.3 million.

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Nabeela is an Associate in the Project Development and Finance practice group based in the Sydney office. 

Nabeela advises clients on the development, financing, construction and maintenance of major infrastructure and energy projects in APAC, with a particular focus on public private partnerships and other privately financed arrangements.

Memberships
Law Society of NSW

Modules:

• Commercial

Biography:

Prior to opening the doors to The JRT Partnership, Geoff Rees was a director of a well respected Melbourne law firm for 30 years. In recent times Geoff has been the key commercial advisor on various important transactions in the higher education and medical institute sectors. He also advises many listed and privately owned midsized corporations. Geoff's hands-on work in various sectors in which he has experience have led to a number of senior appointments. He was Chairman of the company that formed and then listed Melbourne IT Limited. In the course of that process he dealt with the Auditor General, many public compliance issues, the media, the NTEU and the Minister for Education. He was also Deputy Chairman of Melbourne University Private when it successfully obtained reaccreditation as an Australian University.

Modules:

• Succession

Biography:

Since admission in 1992, Melissa has practised almost exclusively in the field of wills and estates, and has a particular interest in estate litigation. Melissa assists the practical legal training courses run by the Law Society of South Australia and Flinders University by lecturing, facilitating workshops, problem setting and marking.

Melissa's memberships and external appointments include; The Law Society of South Australia (Probate Committee), Director of a Private Prescribed Fund, Board Member, Muscular Dystrophy Association SA, Trustee and Muscular Dystrophy Research Foundation.

Biography:

Chloe is Head of General Practice Group – Practical Guidance and is responsible for content development for a number of practice areas. She works closely with a team of in-house Legal Writers all with direct practice experience and dedicated to ensuring the content of Practical Guidance reflects the latest developments in law and practice.

Chloe comes from a banking and financial services litigation background, and has worked on a wide variety of proceedings for Australia's largest banks. Chloe previously worked in the Banking and Financial Services and Disputes and Litigation teams at DibbsBarker Lawyers, and has experience in banking and financial services litigation, dispute resolution and consumer credit law.

Contact

chloe.silvester@lexisnexis.com.au

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

Modules:

• Immigration

Biography:

Simon is an experienced practitioner of immigration law. Simon specialises in providing complex legal advice and formulating immigration management strategies which identify and resolve areas of risk. Simon also works with government and parliamentary bodies with a view to clarifying government policy and improving the operation of visa programs.

Modules:

• Criminal

Biography:

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.

Biography:

Hayley has over 20 years’ experience as an environmental and planning lawyer in Australia and the UK, including at Ashursts, A&O Shearman, Stephenson Harwood, Maddocks and the Environment Agency of England and Wales. She is admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the High Court of Australia and the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

Prior to joining LexisNexis Australia, Hayley was Special Counsel in the Public Law team at Maddocks, and before that was Head of Environment for the Practical Guidance product at LexisNexis UK where she was involved in launching, developing and maintaining the Environment module.

Hayley has experience advising on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious environmental and planning matters, including climate change and renewable energy, environmental due diligence, permitting and compliance, contaminated land, judicial review, compulsory acquisition, and waste. She also has recent experience advising on property, commercial and construction law during a secondment to the Department of Planning, Infrastructure and Housing in NSW.

Hayley was a Trustee and Council member of the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA) and editor of UKELA’s online journal ‘e-law’. She has co-authored an Environmental Law chapter published in a Commercial Property Law (CLP) textbook in the UK, and several articles on environment and planning law published in various journals, commissioned content and blogs, including the following commentary since joining LexisNexis Australia: Headlines from the Finance COP: UNFCCC Climate Change Conference COP29, Baku.

Contact

hayleyanne.tam@lexisnexis.com.au

Modules:

• Commercial

Biography:

Justin is a Senior Associate in the Corporate & Regulatory team at Clyde & Co. He is experienced in advising clients on a range of complex commercial, regulatory and corporate governance matters, including the operation of Australia's autonomous sanctions regime. In addition, Justin has significant experience acting in large commercial litigation and disputes.

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Andrew has acted in a substantial number of successful complex litigious matters in various State and Federal Courts and he has acted for and advised clients across a wide range of industries and professions including building and construction, engineering, defence and professional practice. Andrew advises clients strategically about their dispute and how best to achieve the outcome they seek. He regularly appears in Court as counsel on behalf of his clients. 

Andrew is skilled in achieving client outcomes through mediation, arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). He advises clients regarding the advantages and disadvantages on using ADR. Where ADR is used he often appears as counsel on behalf of his clients. Andrew is qualified in mediation and arbitration (domestic and international), was a National Councillor and National Treasurer of the Institute of Arbitrator and Mediators and was the Treasurer of the South Australian Chapter.

Awards and Recognition
Doyle’s Guide – Leading Construction & Infrastructure Litigation Lawyers – South Australia, since 2015 edition

Memberships
Nationally Accredited Mediator (NMAS) 
Grade 1 arbitrator (Resolution Institute) 
Fellow, CPA Australia 
Fellow, Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration 
Fellow, Resolution Institute 
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 
Fellow, Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution 
Fellow, Philippines Institute of Arbitrators 
Chair, International Legal Practice Committee – Law Society of South Australia 
Member, ADR Committee – Law Society of South Australia 
Member, LAWASIA ADR and Litigation Committee 
Founder & National Chair, Society of Construction Law Australia 
Member, Construction and Infrastructure Committee – Law Council of Australia 

Speaking Engagements
IPSANZ: 07/08/2024 - Perspectives from an advocate and an arbitrator 
Resolution Institute: 22/10/2024 - Will Arbitration Survive Two Momentous Decisions? 
Law Society of South Australia: 22/11/2024 – The High Court and Arbitration 

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Angie is an Associate in the Projects, Infrastructure and Construction team based in Sydney.

Practising in the contentious and non-contentious space, Angie strives to assist her clients throughout the full lifecycle of a project, and with adjacent matters.

Angie has broad ranging disputes experience, having had matters in a variety of forums from NCAT to the Supreme Court. She is also very familiar with adjudication, acting for both claimants and respondents as principals, contractors and subcontractors within at times lengthy, contractual chain, seeking or defending against claims for payments. In addition to adjudication, Angie is experienced with other alternative forms of dispute resolution including mediation and arbitration, and has worked with liquidators and deed administrators on construction insolvency matters including proof of debt adjudications and appeals.

Angie’s front end work includes drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts for government, infrastructure, residential and commercial projects for various stakeholders in the building and construction industry, combining a strong technical understanding of construction law with insight into her clients’ drivers.

Memberships
Society of Construction Law Australia
Law Society of NSW