Paul O'Grady KC

Practice Areas

Paul O'Grady KC has a broad employment and industrial law practice.

Paul joined the Victorian Bar in May 2022 and was appointed Silk in 2015. He specialises in Employment and Industrial Relations Law and has for many years been a strong contributor to the Bar's Continuing Legal Education program.

Paul is an author of the leading Australian employment law text "Macken's Law of Employment", Thomson Reuters, 4th ed (1997), 5th ed (2002), 6th ed (2009), 7th ed (2011), 8th ed (2016) and 9th ed (2022).

Paul is also an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne Law School, regularly teaching in the Melbourne Law Masters, and has since 2005 been an Editor of the Practice and Procedure Section of the Australian Journal of Labour Law.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under the Professional Standards Legislation

Professional Memberships

Australian Labour Lawyers Association

Victorian Bar - Industrial Bar Association (former Vice President and committee member).