We assist with employment law, defamation, discrimination, harassment, misconduct, and regulatory matters.
Employment law litigation and dispute resolution
Unfair dismissal, general protections, breach of contract, underpayments, and discrimination via alternative dispute resolution and litigation in all federal, state, and territory courts, tribunals, and commissions.
Defamation and reputation management, concerns notices, pre-publication assurance, take down notices, defamation disputes and litigation.
Discrimination, harassment
and human rights
Harassment and discrimination in the workplace, schools, sporting clubs, arts organisations, and the community.
Workplace compliance and advisory
Contracts, policies, awards and enterprise agreement interpretation, wage integrity and compliance with workplace legislation.
Restructuring and workplace change
Redundancies, restructures, consultation and major workplace change.
Industrial relations and bargaining
Enterprise bargaining strategy and negotiation, protected action ballots, industrial action, intractable bargaining, engaging with unions and other employee representatives.
Sexual harassment prevention, workplace safety and security
Workplace gender-based violence, positive duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, incident response, safety obligations, regulator engagement, psychosocial hazards.
Conduct in education, sport, and the arts
Staff and student conduct and disciplinary matters (including reportable conduct), on-campus harm, academic integrity, equal access.
Regulator liaison and regulatory compliance
Interactions with, requests from, and notices issued by regulators including the Fair Work Ombudsman, TEQSA, and state and territory commissions for children and young people.
Executive and senior staff employment law and workplace relations
Executive contracts, governance, employee share option plans, conflict of interest disclosure and management, sensitive and serious misconduct allegations.
Performance management, misconduct, complaints, bullying, harassment, disciplinary action, dismissal.
Investigations into, and assistance responding to, alleged misconduct in the workplace, sporting clubs, schools, universities and community organisations.
How we work
We provide high‑quality legal advice and representation that is commercial, pragmatic and genuinely useful.
We take the time to understand how and why you operate, so our advice is practical, easy to understand, and easy to apply. We recognise that legal advice is only effective when it reflects the realities of your workplace, the people in it, and the environment in which you operate.
We achieve outstanding results by combining specialist expertise, extensive experience, competitive rates, and a genuine partnership with our clients.