Employment: New South Wales
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025 : Australia
Band 3
About
Provided by Hall & Wilcox
Our leading Employment and Workplace Relations team offers expertise across all areas of employment and industrial relations law. We are also experienced litigators and advocates, representing clients in all types of employment-related litigation in the Fair Work Commission, anti-discrimination tribunals and the courts.
With six dedicated employment partners and a wealth of talent across our national team, we provide practical, commercial advice and strategic solutions to our clients. We partner with our clients to protect their interests, deliver their workplace strategies and, when the need arises, defend them from employment-related claims.
Our team is experienced in handling sensitive, high-profile matters where reputation is paramount. We manage these cases with care and with the high level of service for which we are known.
We advise on:
- discrimination and equal opportunity
- industrial relations
- migration services
- privacy
- restraints of trade, employment claims and transfer of business issues, and
- work, health and safety.
We serve public and private organisations that are based locally or offshore with Australian interests. They operate in a range of industries, including manufacturing, banking and financial services, insurance, education, mining, aged care, retail, film and television, storage and distribution, construction, recruitment, agribusiness, information technology, horticulture and transport.
Chambers Review
Hall & Wilcox regularly advises employers across the range of contentious industrial and employee relations matters, including union disputes, restraint of trade matters and workplace harassment. It is especially active in disputes, appearing before tribunals, courts and the Fair Work Commission. The team is also able to assist with the employment aspects of restructurings.
Work Highlights
- Hall & Wilcox represented HEAD Oceania in defending an adverse action claim in the Federal Court of Australia brought by its Australian Managing Director, Matthias Dorsch, seeking more than USD3 million in damages and compensation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Hall & Wilcox provide good quality advice that's easy to read and apply."
"Messages are acknowledged immediately, the team are responsive, and everything is delivered on or before the agreed time."
"Hall & Wilcox provide good quality advice that's easy to read and apply."
"Messages are acknowledged immediately, the team are responsive, and everything is delivered on or before the agreed time."
Notable Practitioners
Aaron Dearden handles various industrial relations and contract disputes, as well as advocating in key employment-related litigation.
"Aaron Dearden is a good strategist and is very effective at producing commercial outcomes for clients."
"Aaron provides practical and commercial legal advice which makes working with him very easy."
Mark Dunphy advises on industrial relations and executive issues in both contentious and non-contentious contexts. He regularly provides advice to clients in a variety of sectors.
"I rate him very highly in terms of giving understandable practical advice in a timely manner. Mark's also very calm and reassuring in the way he deals with us."
Karl Rozenbergs is an adept litigator who is also experienced in advising on unfair dismissal and discrimination claims in addition to negotiating enterprise agreements.
"Karl is a very good practitioner."
Ranked Lawyers at
Hall & Wilcox
Australia
Members
Provided by Hall & Wilcox
Aaron Dearden
Alison Baker
Fay Calderone
Karl Rozenbergs
Head of Department
Rosemary Roach
Industries
Provided by Hall & Wilcox
Aged care
Agribusiness
Banking and financial services
Construction
Education
Film and television
Horticulture
Information technology
Insurance
Manufacturing
Mining
Recruitment
Retail
Storage and distribution
Transport