Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Michael has a background in commercial legal practice with a focus on IP commercialisation and strategy.

Michael provides commercial legal services to a range of Australian and international clients across different industries and technologies. In this context, Michael has provided commercial advice and assisted with negotiating and drafting legal documentation relating to online trading, product supply arrangements, manufacturing, technology and other licensing arrangements, compliance with consumer protection and advertising laws and regulations (including in the online space), IT infrastructure projects and implementations and compliance with privacy laws.

As a registered Trade Mark Attorney, Michael currently manages trade mark portfolios and provides related trade mark and domain name services and advice to a range of Australian and multi-national clients to ensure maximum brand value and protection.

Modules:

• Criminal

Biography:

Paul J. Smallwood is a barrister at the Victorian Bar who practises in public law, in particular criminal law and administrative law. He has appeared in a number of cases before the Supreme Court of Victoria, in both the Trial Division and Court of Appeal. Those cases include:

• Cotton v R (2015) 45 VR 341
• DPP v Cartwright (2015) 45 VR 168
• Bayley v R (2013) 43 VR 335
• Hunter v R (2013) 40 VR 660
• Kosian v R (2013) 40 VR 335
• Rowe v R (2013) 64 MVR 181
• SAJ v R (2012) 36 VR 435
• De Castres v R (2011) 33 VR 493

Another case - R v Creamer [2011] VSC 196 - was reviewed in K Toole, ‘Self Defence and the Reasonable Woman: Equality before the New Victorian Law’ (2012) 36 Melbourne University Law Review 250.

Paul is the Secretary of Liberty Victoria. He holds a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne.

Modules:

• Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy

Biography:

Eli is a communications and security awareness professional specialising in the cyber-security sector. Having worked with numerous leading Australian cyber-security companies, he has extensive experiencing helping organisations develop cyber awareness programs. He also assists with the development of strategies to effectively communicate cyber issues to diverse audiences.

Memberships

Australian Information Security Association

Professional Organisation

elevenM
https://elevenm.com.au/

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Angela practises in all aspects of Intellectual Property including patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and consumer protection. Angela has been featured in Doyle’s Intellectual Property list since 2021. Angela regularly appears in the Federal Court of Australia, including the Full Court, various state Supreme Courts, the Patent Office and the Trade Mark Office.

Prior to coming to bar, Angela was a solicitor in two specialist IP firms. Angela was also the Associate to Justice Nicholas of the Federal Court of Australia where she gained extensive experience in intellectual property disputes and large commercial matters.

Angela graduated with first class honours in law from the University of New South Wales. Angela is also on the Editorial Panel for the Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, is a co-author of the LexisNexis Australia Copyright & Designs chapter on International Copyright and has also authored a number of publications in intellectual property law.

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Nabeela is an Associate in the Project Development and Finance practice group based in the Sydney office. 

Nabeela advises clients on the development, financing, construction and maintenance of major infrastructure and energy projects in APAC, with a particular focus on public private partnerships and other privately financed arrangements.

Memberships
Law Society of NSW

Modules:

• Succession

Biography:

Vincent is a partner in the firm, conducting a general practice in the Camden, Picton and Campbelltown areas on the south west outskirts of Sydney. He has been in practice for over 35 years and his principal areas are wills and estates, commercial law, criminal law and property law.

He is an Accredited Specialist in Wills and Estates.

Modules:

• Personal Injury NSW

Biography:

Michael Gliksman is a registered specialist medical practitioner with a primary legal qualification. He is an Approved Medical Specialist and an Assessor under the auspices of WorkCover NSW and the NSW Motor Accidents Authority.

Modules:

• Personal Injury VIC

Biography:

Emily is a Law Institute of Victoria Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law and the current State President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance. She has vast experience acting for people have been injured in motor vehicle accidents, in no-fault and common law claims. Emily is a member of the TAC Legal Liaison Group, the LIV TAC Committee and the ALA/LIV/TAC Protocols Forum.

Modules:

• In-House Advisor

Biography:

Tatyana is Australia Pacific General Counsel and Company Secretary at QBE Insurance, based in Sydney. She leads the Legal Department which is responsible for strategic and operational support for each of QBE’s businesses across the Australia Pacific region. Prior to joining QBE, Tatyana was admitted to the NSW Bar and was General Counsel and Company Secretary for the Aussie Home Loans group of companies.

Tatyana has extensive experience in financial services regulation, insurance, banking, finance, litigation, Royal Commissions, communications, government relations. Governance, legal risk management and company secretarial responsibilities across the Australia Pacific region.

Memberships

Law Society of NSW
Women Lawyers
Australian Insurance Lawyers Association

Speaking Engagements

Panellist Deloitte Intangible Value Summit – harnessing intangible assets to evaluate organisational and national performance 15 November 2023.
Panellist Dentons Future Leaders in Law 7 September 2023.

Professional Organisation

QBE Insurance (Australia) Limited

Professional Contact

tatyana.virgara@qbe.com

Modules:

• Commercial

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Christopher is a Director and Principal of CDI Lawyers. He is a leading Queensland construction litigation lawyer (Doyles Guide, 2024-2018). 

Christopher’s national practice, encompasses front-end, project delivery and back-end on major projects throughout Australia.  

He has recently acted in an AU$1.2B international arbitration arising from the AU$50B Ichthys LNG project in Darwin, an AU$500M infrastructure dispute in the Supreme Court of Queensland, a commercial arbitration for a publicly listed mining company, several disputes arising from the AU$21B Sydney Metro project and has advised on the world-first Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain Project spanning Victoria to Kobe, Japan.  

Christopher is the Queensland editor of the Building and Construction Law Journal. 

Awards
Leading Queensland construction litigation lawyer (Doyles Guide, 2024-2018)

Modules:

• Property

Biography:

Gary has been practising in Western Australia for over 30 years. He has acted for a wide range of clients including banks, insurance companies, property trusts, private developers, property investors and Government.

He has particular experience in the sale and purchase of major commercial properties (including shopping centres and office buildings), property development projects (including site acquisition, planning aspects, easements and related dealings in land) preparing master leases and advising on all aspects of commercial and retail leasing (including advice relating to the Commercial Tenancy (Retail Shops) Agreements Act) and property securities, general commercial contracts and duty.

Professional Organisations & Memberships

• McWilliams Davis Lawyers

Modules:

• Criminal

Biography:

Te’res is an accredited specialist in Children’s Law. She graduated from the University of Wollongong in 2001. In 2002 she joined Legal Aid NSW and soon after the Children’s Legal Service division of Legal Aid NSW. Te'res was appointed as a Magistrate to the Local Court of New South Wales in 2022.

Modules:

• Banking & Finance
• Personal Property Securities

Biography:

Steve is a commercial-focused lawyer with over three decades’ experience in banking & finance transactions, including over 20 years as a partner at Allens, where he is now a consultant. His practice has included corporate finance, debt capital markets, project finance and more recently consumer finance work. He is currently based in Melbourne, and has also spent several years practicing in each of Hong Kong and Singapore

Outside the law, Steve also works as a researcher at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, with a focus on public transport projects.

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Philippa is a Senior Associate who is qualified to practice in Australia, Canada and the UK and brings over 11 years’ worth of experience in private practice and in-house. She has recently returned from London where she worked as senior in-house lawyer for a leading international media and entertainment company, Viacom, focusing on entertainment law and licensing.

Philippa’s experience includes trade mark prosecution, strategy and enforcement, extensive contractual drafting and negotiating, and providing advice on IP rights, commercialisation, privacy law and consumer protection. She has assisted clients with large transactional matters, contractual disputes and at all stages of the litigation/dispute resolution process.

Modules:

• Banking & Finance

Biography:

With 20 years’ experience as a banking, finance and projects lawyer, Daniel works across property, public–private partnerships (PPPs) and infrastructure projects; wholesale fund and portfolio financing; and corporate/real estate investment trust and acquisition finance, treasury and debt capital market transactions, and complex debt reconstructions.

Daniel is noted in Chambers Global/Asia Pacific as having a Band 1 rating, and to be an “excellent practitioner” who “attracts glowing praise for his collaborative approach and great negotiating skills”, and "extremely good; measured and great at solving technical and practical problems." (Chambers Asia Pacific 2015). Daniel is also noted in International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers (2014), Who’s Who Intercontinental Edition Banking World Rankings Law (2015-16), Who’s Who Legal: Banking (2015-17), International Financial Law Review 1000 (2008-16 editions) and ExpertGuides (2015-17) as a world leading Banking lawyer, Asialaw Leading Lawyers (2013-17) for Banking and Best Lawyers International: Australia Peer Review (2010-16 editions) for Project Finance and Development, Banking and Finance, and Real Property - Finance.

Modules:

• Personal Injury NSW

Biography:

Michael has practised continuously at the NSW bar since 1989.

Over the last 10 years, his practice has been dominated by Torts/ Negligence/ Common Law work, including cases under the Civil Liability Act, Work Injury damages, Motor Accidents legislation and Professional Negligence Law.

Modules:

• Commercial

Biography:

Alexandra is a corporate lawyer with extensive corporate and commercial on-the-ground business experience, bringing a pragmatic and commercial approach to legal problems and finding effective solutions.

Alexandra fosters collaborative partnerships with clients to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. Her relationship-centric approach allows her to grasp clients’ immediate and long-term objectives, enabling her to deliver strategic and proactive commercial and legal solutions.

Alexandra’s expertise encompasses a wide range of areas, including general corporate advisory, business restructures, M&A, IPOs, shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, debt disputes, employment and commercial contracting. With a diverse background across various industries, Alexandra has advised clients in sectors including resources, engineering, infrastructure and construction, manufacturing, logistics, travel and tourism.

Alexandra is committed to community engagement and has helped set up not-for-profit entities to enable them to continue philanthropic ventures, helped NFPs obtain charity and DGR status and worked with NFPs and social enterprises to deliver strategic and innovative commercial business solutions.