Thomson Geer

Aged Care & Retirement Living

Partner

Julie is a Partner in the Aged Care and Retirement Living team at Thomson Geer. She leads the firm's Brisbane Health & Aged Care team. The team is a unique combination of 12 lawyers and clinical consultants. Julie's team forms part of the larger national Health & Aged Care team working across Australia.

Julie is acknowledged as a leading provider of legal services to the aged care and retirement living industries and has an intimate understanding of the legal issues critical to this sector.

She advises a large range of aged care providers and retirement living operators including publicly listed groups, private groups and not-for-profits. She is a trusted advisor to some of the largest aged care providers in the country and is retained for many providers in the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.

Julie provides advice to operators on acquisitions and sales, major incident management, coronial matters, workplace health and safety issues, corporate governance and all regulatory issues. She regularly provides advice to industry associations and key stakeholders about regulatory matters relevant to both aged care and retirement living. In addition, Julie is a Director of Simply Legal Pty Ltd, an organisation that offers access online to high-quality document templates for aged care providers and retirement village operators.

Bachelor of Laws, Queensland University of Technology Masters of Law, Queensland University of Technology Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors