Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2014 
Jacquie acts for employers in both the public and private sectors across a wide range of industries and sectors including education, sport, health and aged care, community services, financial services, IT, retail, manufacturing, transport and agribusiness. She acts for organisations of all sizes, from small employers to major institutions.
Jacquie advises on individual and collective employment relationships from recruitment through termination and beyond: employment contracts; enterprise agreements; independent contractor arrangements; redundancy and restructure; applying and interpreting workplace laws, safety and discrimination legislation; confidentiality and restraints; and compliance programs. She conducts and manages independent investigations and represents clients in workplace and discrimination litigation.
Jacquie has guided clients through five major reforms to the federal industrial relations system, helping them understand what they need to do to comply with ever-increasing regulation. She has been personally invited to make submissions to government on discrimination law reform on several occasions. As an experienced litigator and negotiator, she manages high-stakes employment disputes, sensitive investigations and contentious regulatory matters. She has published in the fields of education law and employment law, including an employment law chapter in Higher Education and the Law (Federation Press, 2015) and a chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Education Law for Schools (2018).
Jacquie’s practice is distinguished by the breadth of her sector experience in workplace relations law and her recognised expertise in discrimination law, education law and sports law.
She has lectured at the University of Technology Sydney, UNSW Sydney, University of Sydney, Macquarie University and University of Notre Dame Sydney.
