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Solutions

We deploy strategies designed to achieve fast and efficient dispute resolution for our clients.  We are experts in alternative dispute resolution and all forms of commercial litigation.

Focus

Our aim is to achieve our clients’ objectives. We pride ourselves in working with our clients as a team.  We consult from the outset with our clients to identify their objectives and provide clear, concise and practical advice to achieve their goals.

Clients

We act for government, statutory authorities, corporations, partnerships and individuals.  We represent clients throughout Australia.  Our clients are important to us. We put a lot of effort into understanding our clients’ businesses and earning their trust.

Resources

We compete head-to-head with the major law firms.  We have the resources to handle the most complex cases but our points of difference are:  

• our partners provide leadership, strategy, involvement and commitment

• our clients have access to our partners at all times

• we use small but efficient teams to limit costs

Our expertise

We have successfully designed strategies to resolve the most complex cases and are committed to the use of alternative dispute resolution forms and techniques.  When required, we can litigate in any court, are skilled in arbitration, expert determination and representing clients before commissions of inquiry and other official investigations.   

Our expertise includes:

• contractual and corporate disputes

• trade practices

• insolvency

• information technology and intellectual property

• professional negligence

• media and privacy

• Commissions of Inquiry

• APRA, ASIC and ACCC investigations

• employment and workplace safety

• equal opportunity and anti-discrimination matters

Our process

To establish our clients’ goals and meet their objectives, we:

• make sure that we know the necessary facts to understand the dispute

• analyse the relevant issues and form preliminary views on the legal arguments available to our clients

• then meet with our clients to clarify their objectives and explore strategies to achieve their goals

• ensure that we both have a clear understanding of the work to be done and the timeframes involved

• provide detailed budgets, which we review from time-to-time, where necessary

• meet our budgets

• report regularly and make sure that our clients are kept up-to-date

• provide clear, concise and practical commercial advice

• provide, where required, a written dispute resolution plan which records the process which we have agreed with our clients