Kim Middleton

Joanna is an experienced insurance lawyer, specialising in statutory classes of insurance. Joanna has extensive experience advising and representing employers, self-insurers, NSW workers compensation managed fund scheme agents, treasury managed fund agents and the Workers Compensation Nominal Insurer (icare).Joanna’s practice incorporates statutory and common law claims and judicial review matters. She manages matters involving both physical and psychological injuries, litigated matters...

Peter has more than 25 years’ experience assisting clients involved in commercial disputes, and has recognised expertise solving problems that arise involving financial distress for clients or their counterparties. Peter provides legal services to his clients in a wide variety of commercial, property and administrative disputes, often working closely in consultation with our Property and Corporate & Advisory partners. This often involves providing advice in the initial stage of a di...

David is the Principal of Reidlaw who has dedicated his practice exclusively to corporate and commercial law for over 25 years. With a specific focus on advising on mergers, restructures, incorporations, partnerships, trusts, joint ventures, commercial contracting, and funds management. David's experience includes advising on: the sale of an Australian information technology and services company to an Asia-Pacific located multinational (EV $60 million); the merger of two of the Hunter region'...

Susan Goodman is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Regulatory Practice. Susan, who practices law in Sydney, Australia, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Susan is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jacquie has practised employment law, discrimination law and education law since 1990. Her sports law practice has grown naturally from these other areas since 2006. She has guided clients through four major reforms to the federal industrial relations system. An experienced litigator in employment and industrial relations, Jacquie has specialist expertise in discrimination, unfair dismissal, breach of contract claims, industrial disputes, and prosecutions for breach of awards, industrial laws...

Marlia is an experienced media/entertainment, intellectual property and privacy lawyer who has extensive top-tier law firm expertise and a unique client perspective after working as a senior in-house lawyer for many years. She was the Senior Litigation Counsel at News Corp Australia for four years, and previously worked at a top-tier international firm for 13 years where she acted for and advised most of Australia’s major media organisations, social media and streaming platforms, large ...

After 12 years at the Bar, combining advocacy and mediation work, Deborah commenced full time practice as a mediator in 2016. Deborah has been conducting mediations since 2000, initially as a court appointed mediator/Registrar of the Supreme Court and from 2004 in private practice. Deborah is an accredited mediator under the Australian National Mediator Standards and is appointed to both the Supreme and District Court mediation panels. She was a member of the ADR Committee of the Bar Associat...

Chester’s practice focuses on international arbitration and other general commercial matters, and encompasses advisory work and appearances in court and before arbitral tribunals. He has particular expertise in disputes which raise issues of public and private international law, and he is presently engaged in a number of disputes arising under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. He was previously an Assistant Legal Adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, and ...

Michael has over 30 years of experience in immigration law and has been recognised as an Accredited Specialist in immigration law by the New South Wales Law Society since 1998. He is an Associate Fellow of the Migration Institute of Australia, a member of the New South Wales Law Society committee for Accredited specialists in Immigration law, Chairman of the Conduct Panel for the Migration Institute of Australia and member of The Australian and New Zealand College of Notaries. Michael is also...

Marion is the recipient of numerous peer accolades including being repeatedly featured as one of Australia’s leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners in the Managing Intellectual Property’s Expert Guide and as an ‘IP Star’. She is regularly listed by Best Lawyers as one of ‘Australia’s Top Lawyers’ in Intellectual Property, as one of Asia Law’s leading lawyers, among the worlds leading practitioners in the Expert Guides: Trade Marks edition, and Asi...