Native Title: Traditional Owners - Australia
What the team is known for
HWL Ebsworth Lawyers' well-established offering maintains an impressive reputation in the native title arena. It is recognised for its leading expertise in the representation of native title groups in land use and land access negotiations with project proponents, and has a strong track record of acting for native title claimants, holders and representative bodies on high-profile native title dispute mandates.
Strengths
"They are pre-eminent. I have great respect for them."
Notable practitioners
Philip Hunter is a widely revered practitioner who acts for native representative bodies across a range of issues. "Philip Hunter is a very impressive practitioner. The crème de la crème. He is very well regarded."