Hilary is a senior associate in Lander & Rogers' Workplace Relations & Safety team in Melbourne. Hilary has diverse experience in all aspects of workplace law. She has worked in the field since 2018 and was admitted to practice in 2019.
Experience
Hilary approaches legal advice and disputes from a practical, commercial perspective for both private and public sector clients, with a mind to their operating environment.
She has advisory and litigious experience spanning a wide range of sectors, from financial services and telecommunications, manufacturing and supply chain, to education and government services.
Hilary's areas of expertise include:
- termination of employment and disciplinary action matters
- organisational restructuring and transformation and related claims
- industrial action and bargaining
- restraints of trade
- workplace investigations
- employment contracts and policies
- discrimination, victimisation, harassment and workplace behaviour
- enterprise agreements, awards and other industrial instruments across a wide range of industries and sectors, including compliance projects
- general employment law advice and litigation.
Career highlights
Hilary's career highlights include:
- advising a telecommunications company on the employment and industrial impacts of a major corporate restructure
- assisting with interpretation and application of numerous enterprise agreements and legacy agreements for a complex remediation program
- assisting a stevedoring client in defending multipronged litigation arising from unprotected industrial action, and making a claim for damages
- assisting a technology company managing major restructures affecting personnel
- supporting an aged care client to develop a new industrial relations strategy in light of significant changes to legislation
- acting as instructing solicitor in various jurisdictions including the Fair Work Commission and Federal Courts, and assisting in a successful special leave application to the High Court regarding an abuse of process matter.