About

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Clayton Utz's Workplace Relations, Employment and Safety (WRES) team has a proud multi-jurisdiction focus, with the practice and team located across Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, and Western Australia. Led by 11 Partners, the team operates across six key areas being Employment, Industrial Relations, Safety, Investigations, Risk & Compliance, and Discrimination, Diversity & Equal Opportunity.




Chambers Review

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Employment: New South Wales - Australia

3
Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Clayton Utz is especially active for federal and local government bodies, with a particularly robust client base and expertise in the aviation, technology and university sectors. The firm boasts a highly regarded litigation team, which focuses on discrimination, bullying and industrial disputes, as well as restraint of trade. The firm also handles matters relating to sexual harassment and fraud. Further areas of focus include the use and development of technology to aid in the calculation of the financial impact of proposed clause amendments in enterprise agreements, as well as in evidence analysis for investigations and in compliance reviews.

Work Highlights

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  • Clayton Utz advised and negotiated the University of Sydney's enterprise bargaining agreement.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Saul Harben
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Saul Harben
1
Band 1
Saul Harben enjoys a strong reputation for enterprise bargaining and workplace health and safety matters. He is particularly noted for advising energy and mining clients.

Saul Harben is professional to deal with and very knowledgeable.

Anna Casellas
2
Anna Casellas
2
Band 2
Anna Casellas handles the full range of employment issues from litigious matters pertaining to industrial relations and dismissals as well as contractual and compliance. She wins praise for the depth of her knowledge and the level of service she provides.

Anna is a stand-out trusted adviser.

Dan Trindade
3
Dan Trindade
3
Band 3
Dan Trindade is a well-regarded figure in the Victorian market and is noted for handling industrial strategy and enterprise bargaining disputes.

Dan Trindade is practical and responsive, he's able to find the real issue in a dispute and find a way to achieve an outcome.

Shae McCartney
4
Shae McCartney
4
Band 4
Shae McCartney has an active work health and safety practice advising on workplace investigations and COVID-19 measures for a variety of corporate clients.

Shae is a total weapon.

Ranked Lawyers at
Clayton Utz

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Australia

Employment: New South Wales

Saul Harben
1
Saul Harben
1
Band 1
Employment: Victoria

Dan Trindade
3
Dan Trindade
3
Band 3
Employment: Western Australia

Anna Casellas
2
Anna Casellas
2
Band 2
Health & Safety

Shae McCartney
4
Shae McCartney
4
Band 4

Members

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Allison Shannon

Amanda Lyras

Christy Miller

Dan Trindade

Dan Trindade

Head of Department

Hilary Searing

Jennifer Wyborn

Matt Kelleher

Stuart Pill

Industries

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Aviation

Banking & Financial Services

Energy & Resources

Government

Higher Education

Life Sciences

Technology

Transport