Employment: New South Wales
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025 : Australia
Band 3
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+61 2 8267 3800Chambers 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."