Emily is a strategic and commercial employment lawyer with experience across private practice and senior in-house leadership roles. She advises organisations across a range of industries, with particular experience in energy and resources, agribusiness and the public sector at both Commonwealth and State levels.
She has significant experience in employment and pay compliance, industrial relations strategy and enterprise bargaining, organisational change and restructuring, and managing reputational risk during sensitive investigations, negotiations and terminations.
Emily is known for her collaborative approach, working closely with executives, HR professionals and legal teams to understand their objectives and develop pragmatic solutions.
Emily brings unique experience from her role at BHP, leading the legal team supporting a large-scale transformational employment compliance project and high-profile remediation program, within a complex global setting.
Experience
- Advising large-scale agribusinesses on industrial relations strategy, bargaining, pay compliance and day to day operations, to achieve commercial objectives
- Conducting sensitive investigations and navigating employee misconduct for a leading electricity network provider
- Partnering with real estate industry clients to manage employee claims, develop risk management strategies and employment terms
- Acted for global manufacturing business in relation to WHS incident and related prosecution
- Supporting health care and medical industry clients on insourcing and outsourcing of work and compliance issues
- Advising public sector clients on industrial relations strategy, transfer of business issues and sensitive investigations
- Acted for CSIRO in high profile sexual harassment and discrimination claim
- Acted for BHP in Federal Court underpayments class action
- Supporting food manufacturing clients in navigating business sale and restructures, as well as operational issues
- Designing training programs and uplifting organisational compliance for various agribusiness clients
Awards and Recognition
Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year Awards
2022 | Finalist | Employment Lawyer of the Year
2022 | Finalist | New Partner of the Year