Practice Areas

• Professional legal services in all areas of corporate, commercial, government and not-for-profit legal practice

• Expertise in:

  • Commercial, Contract, Tort & Insurance Law

  • Consumer Protection, Competition & Trade Practices Law

  • Corporations and Securities Law & Corporate Governance

  • Cybersecurity, Technology, Intellectual Property & Commercialisation

  • Government, Public and Administrative Law

  • Indigenous Rights & Native Title

  • Workplace, Employment & Industrial Relations

• Corporate governance, strategic planning and risk management

• Legal education and workplace training specialist

Experience

• Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in 1993, with over 30 years’ professional experience

• Barrister & Solicitor, Australis Chambers, (2016-)

• Barrister & Solicitor, Minter Ellison (1993-1995)

• Barrister, Bar Chambers (1995-2011, Associate Member 2011-2015)

• Director and Company Secretary, Bar Chambers Pty Ltd (2003-10)

o    17 member barristers’ chambers, Adelaide, South Australia

• General Counsel & Head of Industrial Relations and Internal Audit, Peregrine Corporation (2016)

o    South Australia’s largest private corporation, 3,000 employees

• General Counsel & Head of Governance, Indigenous Land Corporation (2017-18)

o    Commonwealth statutory corporation based in Adelaide, SA, 1,500 employees nationally

• Executive Director, Market Regulation, Government and Conveyance, Waterfind (2020-21)

o    Australian water markets specialists and delivery partner in Australian Government’s $1.5 billion environmental water efficiency and infrastructure programme

• Deputy Chief Counsel & Senior Legal Advisor, AAT Dispute Resolution & Litigation, National Disability Insurance Agency (2021-2022)

  • Corporate Commonwealth entity implementing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

• Senior Corporate Lawyer, Thomson Reuters (2022-2023)

  • International publisher for legal professionals

• Senior Legal Counsel, Menzies School of Health Research (2023-)

  • Global and tropical diseases and indigenous medical health research centre

• Sessional Ombudsman (General Insurance), Australian Financial Complaints Authority (2023-)

  • Australia’s independent financial services dispute resolution scheme

• Member of the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Law Council of Australia (LCA), LCA Competition and Consumer Law Committee, the Law Society of South Australia and Australian Insurance Law Association (former President AILA (SA) (2015-2019))

Qualifications

Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia, 1993-present

Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia, 1994-present

Doctor of Philosophy, University of South Australia, 2020

Cybersecurity (Premier Certificate), Harvard University, 2019

Bachelor of Civil Law (Master of Laws degree), University of Oxford, 1993

Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, University of South Australia, 1993

Bachelor of Laws (Honours - First Class), University of Adelaide, 1992

Bachelor of Economics, University of Adelaide, 1990