Alison Baker

Alison has close to 18 years’ experience in a wide-ranging employment practice, advising private sector and public sector clients on all aspects of employment, industrial relations and human resources law, and work health and safety law. She also advises private and public sector organisations on the application of privacy legislation.

Alison has been recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia in employee benefits law every year since 2014 and as a recommended employment lawyer in Victoria in Doyle’s Guide to the Australian Legal Profession and the 2020 edition of the Legal 500 Asia Pacific. She has been a finalist in 2016 and 2017 for the Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year Awards, Workplace Relations.

Clients appreciate the easy-to-deal-with and solutions-focused approach that Alison brings when assisting them to navigate a complex and highly regulated legal environment. Alison provides legal advice and assistance that is technically excellent but which always gives consideration to a client’s goals and imperatives, including financial, commercial and reputational considerations.

Alison advises a broad cross-section of private sector and public sector clients, including large corporate entities, small-to-medium enterprises, universities, local government, government agencies and statutory corporations.