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About

Hall & Wilcox is a leading independent Australian law firm.  We are a national firm with eight offices across Australia –  Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, Darwin and Adelaide, and 950+ people, including over 115 partners.

For more than a century, Hall & Wilcox has been advising businesses and business people, public and private entities and the public sector on a wide range of commercial and legal issues. We act nationally for Australian-based clients and multinational clients with Australian interests.

At Hall & Wilcox, our purpose is to enable our clients, our people and our communities to thrive by practicing smarter law. Smarter law is how we help clients achieve their business objectives. Smarter law demands service, solutions, systems and processes that are flexible, responsive, efficient and intelligent. Smarter law leads to greater value for clients.

By remaining an independent firm, when many in Australia merged to become global, Hall & Wilcox has the flexibility to work with clients and other firms with fewer restrictions. We have several international desks led by partners and senior lawyers who are native speakers and understand first hand, the commercial and legal issues of doing business in a particular country. Our international desks include China desk, German desk, Spanish desk, South East Asia desk, European desk, UK desk and US desk.

Areas of practice: Hall & Wilcox’s expertise extends across a broad range of areas including, banking and financial services, corporate and commercial, litigation and dispute resolution, property and projects, insurance, employment and workplace relations, tax, and private clients.

Languages

  • Arabic
  • Bahasa Indonesia
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Macedonian
  • Malayalam
  • Mandarin
  • Russian
  • Samoan
  • Bosnian
  • Serbian
  • Sinhalese
  • Spanish
  • Vietnamese
  • Yiddish
  • Cantonese
  • Croatian
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Farsi
  • French
  • German

Memberships

  • SCG Legal
  • International Lawyers Network
  • The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
  • Australia China Business Council
  • European Business Inc
  • SwissCham
  • Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand
  • Australia and New Zealand Sports Law Association
  • American Chamber of Commerce in Australia

Staffing Figures

  • 115+ Number of partners:
  • 380+ Number of lawyers: