Adam Segal
A banking and insolvency specialist with a commercial practice, Adam is an experienced trial and appellate advocate.
List G Barristers
listgbarristers.com.aulistgbarristers.com.auLawyers
Andrew Pollock
Andrew has a national practice covering litigious, advisory and strategic matters with a primary focus on industrial relations and employment related areas. He specialises in disputes arising from industrial action, enterprise bargaining and related disputes, strategic issues arising from major restructures and individual employee disputes. Andrew has also practised in media and entertainment law (with a focus on defamation and intellectual property issues arising in the music and screen industries). Andrew’s clients span a range of industries including retail, airlines, transport and logistics, mining and resources, manufacturing, entertainment and the public sector. He appears regularly before the Federal Court, the Federal Circuit Court and the Fair Work Commission, at trial and appellate levels. Andrew was recognised in: Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific rankings for 2021; Legal 500's Australian rankings for 2021 (Tier 1); Doyles Guide's Leading Employment and WHS Counsel Australia in 2021 and 2020; Doyles Guide's Leading Employment and WHS Counsel Victoria in 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018; and Doyles Guide's Emerging Employment and WHS Counsel in 2017. Before coming to the Bar, Andrew was a Senior Associate in the Employment, Pensions and Incentives practice group at Herbert Smith Freehills. As a solicitor advocate, Andrew appeared regularly in the eastern States and Western Australia before the Federal Court, the Federal Circuit Court, the Fair Work Commission (at first instance and Full Bench levels), the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (at first instance and Full Bench levels) and the NSW Industrial Relations Commission.Andrew was called to the Bar in 2015.
Colin Golvan KC
Colin Golvan AM KC practises predominantly in intellectual property law and trade practices.
Colin Golvan has been a King’s Counsel at the Victorian Bar since 2002. He appears as senior counsel in copyright, trade marks, designs and patent cases, as well as in competition and misleading conduct cases in the Federal and High Court of Australia, and in mediations and arbitrations. Details of Federal Court cases in which he has appeared can be found here (trial decisions) and here (Full Court decisions).
Colin holds a Masters of Law degree from Monash University and a Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) and Law degrees from Melbourne University. He has taught in the intellectual property area in the Masters of Law program at Melbourne University as a Visiting Fellow. He has lectured on intellectual property subjects throughout Australia and New Zealand. He was admitted to legal practice in 1985, and worked as a solicitor (and senior associate) for Phillips Fox Solicitors for three years prior to signing the Bar Roll in November 1988 (having read with former High Court Justice the Hon Susan Crennan AC).
He has served as chairperson of the board of trustees of the Victorian Bar Indigenous Barristers’ Fund, the Indigenous Lawyers Committee of the Victorian Bar and his Barristers’ clerking list (List G). He is also a former member of the Appeals Board of Football Federation Victoria.
He has been selected as a leading IP and trade practices counsel in the Best Lawyers of Australia, Doyle’s listings in the field of Intellectual Property Law and Litigation, Chambers and Global Asia Pacific and Legal 500 in 2014-2021.
In 2018, he was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Liability limited by a scheme approved under the Professional Standards Legislation
Daniel Preston
Daniel practises in commercial law, with a focus on regulatory and competition and consumer law.
David Morgan
David Morgan has a broad general commercial and public law practice.
David Morgan is a leading commercial and tax barrister who regularly appears in Victorian and Commonwealth courts and tribunals.
His areas of practice include stamp duty, land tax, income tax, property law, native title, banking and finance, contractual disputes, administrative law, disciplinary matters and corporations law.
David's expertise has been recognised in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 for Tax - Australian Bar 2021.
Before coming to the Bar he was a Senior Associate at Mallesons and spent a year as Associate to Justice Sundberg at the Federal Court of Australia. David is a former editor of the Melbourne University Law Review.
Jennifer Collins
Jennifer practises in all areas of commercial and regulatory law.
Jennifer has a broad commercial practice. Jennifer is recognised in Doyle's Guide to Leading Barristers, and was recognised in Lawyerly Media’s inaugural Rising Stars edition in 2021 for her work in high-stakes litigation.
Before coming to the Bar, Jennifer was a commercial litigation solicitor with Blake Dawson (now Ashurst) and a Senior Associate with Arnold Bloch Leibler.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation
Jenny Firkin KC
Jenny Firkin QC practises in all areas of Industrial, Employment and Discrimination Law.
Jenny also has significant experience in class actions and royal commissions and inquiries. Most recently in the Workpac Class Actions, the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry and the Royal Commission into Violence Abuse Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
Jenny is an experienced appellate advocate, regularly conducting appeals under the Fair Work Act in the High Court of Australia and the Full Federal Court. She is instructed by State and Commonwealth governments, regulators, the private sector, associations, and individuals in all Australian States and Territories. Jenny is currently ranked as a leading senior counsel in Doyle’s Guide to Employment Law Barristers for Australia and Victoria.
Jenny is the Chair of the Victorian Bar’s Equality and Diversity Committee and a Member of the Law Council of Australia’s Equal Opportunity Committee.
Laura Hilly
Laura practises in public, commercial, regulatory, employment and anti-discrimination law.
Laura has an appellate and trial practice and has appeared in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Federal Court and various other courts and tribunals. She is regularly briefed by both State and Commonwealth departments and agencies, Aboriginal Land Councils and by private parties, in a variety of areas.
Before coming to the Bar, Laura was a Senior Lawyer at the Australian Government Solicitor. Laura acted for the Commonwealth in administrative law, regulatory, anti-discrimination, employment and information protection (including freedom of information and privacy) matters. She was an Associate to the Hon Chief Justice Black AC at the Federal Court; and a lawyer in the Commercial Litigation group at Blake Dawson (now Ashurst). Laura is also admitted in England and Wales and worked as a solicitor in a boutique London firm, specialising in employment and anti-discrimination litigation.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under the Professional Standards Legislation
Leigh Howard
Leigh's practice spans industrial relations, regulatory and public law.
He is briefed nationally for industrial relations work and has experience in all types of applications under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). His work in this area is routinely recognised by Chambers and Partners, Doyle's Guide, the Legal 500 and the AFR's Best Lawyers.
His public and regulatory practice extends to consumer, financial services, occupational health and safety, environment, discrimination and human rights. He has particular experience in civil penalty proceedings and white collar crime, and has acted for and against Australia's most prominent regulators. He is known for his grasp on statutory construction, constitutional, judicial review and regulatory enforcement principles.
Prior to the bar Leigh was a Senior Associate at Clayton Utz. He has also previously been a judge's associate, a tutor in constitutional law at La Trobe University, and an editor of Halsbury's Laws of Australia. He is a director and company secretary of List G Barristers.
“Leigh is an extremely smart and pragmatic operator. He is involved in the leading cases across Australia working with some of the most experienced senior counsel. You have great trust and confidence putting Leigh before the most sophisticated clients to run their most sensitive and important matters.” – The Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide, 2024.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under the Professional Standards Legislation
Luke Merrick
Luke Merrick KC practises in commercial litigation, with a particular focus on competition and consumer law, energy regulation and intellectual property.
Malcolm Harding SC
Malcolm Harding S.C is a trial and appellate barrister with extensive litigation experience. Malcolm has practised as a barrister since 2003. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2019.
Marcus Fleming
Marcus Fleming practises in commercial litigation, with a particular focus on intellectual property law.
Marcus has experience in intellectual property litigation in relation to patent revocation and infringement proceedings (including interlocutory injunction and special leave applications), copyright infringement proceedings, trade mark infringement proceedings (including related consumer protection law) and non-use applications and oppositions.
Marcus also has extensive experience in proceedings concerning a claim for compensation on an undertaking as to damages in the Federal Court of Australia (in the context of pharmaceutical patent revocation proceedings). Marcus also has experience in licensing, branding and advertising law, and food law.
Prior to joining the Bar, Marcus was a Senior Associate at Ashurst Australia (formerly Blake Dawson) in the intellectual property group.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under the Professional Standards Legislation
Marita Foley SC
Marita Foley SC specialises in environmental, planning and land acquisition matters for private clients and government agencies.
Marita has particular expertise in litigation involving contaminated land and losses related to environmental damage, having appeared in a number of significant and long running environmental cases and panel processes. Marita appears regularly in VCAT, the Supreme Court and Planning Panels Victoria in matters relating to town planning, environmental issues and land acquisition.
Marita commenced her career as an Associate in the Federal Court of Australia. Immediately before joining the Bar, Marita was a Senior Associate with Maddocks in their Public Law department, practising predominantly in the areas of planning, environment and local government law.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation
Melissa Marcus
Melissa Marcus practises in defamation law and all aspects of intellectual property. Melissa has expertise in intellectual property litigation, with extensive experience in trade marks, copyright and misleading or deceptive conduct litigation. Melissa also does defamation law. She is a recommended Junior Counsel in intellectual property law by Doyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession. Melissa has also been distinguished as outstanding by Best Lawyers 2022 in intellectual property law. Melissa also has experience in Royal Commissions, having acted for a client before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (led by Dr Matt Collins AM QC), and for a client in relation to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. She also has experience as an independent auditor in relation to undertakings to the ACCC pursuant to section 87B of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. Before joining the Bar, Melissa managed Mallesons Stephen Jaques' Trade Marks Group in Melbourne, providing trade mark, branding and general strategic advice to clients in Australia and overseas, and advising on oppositions and other IP disputes. She also worked at Linklaters in London after completing a Master of Laws at Cambridge University.
Peter Creighton-Selvay
Peter Creighton-Selvay practises in general commercial litigation and has specialist expertise in intellectual property litigation. He has significant trial and appellate experience and is regularly briefed to appear in the Federal Court, Supreme Court and IP Australia in a wide range of commercial and intellectual property proceedings.
Peter has been widely recognised as a leading barrister in his field, including in Doyle’s Guide to Technology, Media & Telecommunications Barristers (Australia and Victoria), Doyle’s Guide to Intellectual Property Barristers (Australia and Victoria), Chambers and Partners, and The Legal 500.
Prior to joining the Bar, Peter was a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Melbourne and a managing associate at Linklaters in London. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne (first class honours) and a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge (also first class honours).
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation
Rachel Doyle SC
Rachel Doyle SC is a leading trial and appellate advocate with a broad practice.
Rachel is a specialist in Class Actions, Industrial, Employment and
Rebecca Davern
Rebecca Davern practises in a wide range of commercial matters including major tort class actions, corporations law, administrative law and employment and discrimination law.
Stephen Rebikoff
List G Barristers
Tom Cordiner KC
Tom Cordiner KC holds the dual qualification of barrister and registered patents and trade mark attorney.
Tom has, for the past 23 years, specialised in all aspects of intellectual property law, for the last five years as Queen’s Counsel.
Tom commonly appears in court trials and appeals throughout Australia, and from time to time the Patents Office and Trade Marks Office. He appears for, and advises, a broad range of clients in all kinds of industries including pharmaceutical, mining, automotive, agricultural, IT/telecommunications, wagering, and fashion. He also mediates intellectual property disputes.
Prior to joining the law, Tom obtained tertiary qualifications in science and law and earned an honours degree in molecular genetics with a project funded by Florigene Ltd (responsible for the “Blue Rose” and “Long-life carnation” projects) and Melbourne University.
From 1998 to 2003, Tom was a solicitor with Ashurst (then Blake Dawson Waldron), during which time he became a registered patent attorney and trade marks attorney, drafting and prosecuting mechanical and molecular biology patents, and assisting clients in a range of technologies, from dance-shoes to nanotechnology.
Tom contributes to IPForum each quarter and is the author of Patent Infringement in Lahores, published by Lexis Nexis. Tom has been ranked as “preeminent” since 2018 in the list of leading intellectual property senior counsel for Australia (and for Victoria) by the Doyle's Guide. He has also recently enrolled as a barrister of the High Court of New Zealand.
Warwick Rothnie
Warwick Rothnie practises in intellectual property law, trade practices, telecommunications and commercial law.