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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Providing digital forensic and eDiscovery oversight, expertise and strategic advice within the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) in response to complex cross-border investigations and litigation for domestic and global clients. This includes Early Case Assessment (ECA), identification, data collection and processing, discovery project management and review strategy, hosting and analytics, discovery production deliverables, and export and manipulation of load files.Drafting and negotiating Document Management Exchange Protocol requirements between the parties and scoping, tracking and managing project budgets and generating regular cost updates and reporting metrics.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Providing eDiscovery consulting services and evidence management solutions for large-scale investigations and regulatory responses including The NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ Hate Crimes.Advising financial and regulatory bodies on strategy, eDiscovery processes and high-level project management for matters within the scope of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) including early case assessment, data processing, review and disclosure productions in RelativityOne.

Melbourne, Australia

Creator of pop culture related content, freelance writer and presenter for Complex Australia.

Melbourne, Australia

Conducting end-to-end eDiscovery project management including identifying, preserving, processing, reviewing and producing electronically stored information in litigation via Relativity platform to commercial legal teams, IT vendors, sole practitioners and records management personnel.Successfully overseeing multiple concurrent projects and providing eDiscovery production deliverables on all projects including The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry and other complex cross-border matters. Recipient of Quality Award 2019.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Providing end-to-end document and digital solutions for high volume electronic document production in litigation.

Melbourne, Australia

Providing high-level paralegal support on pro bono public interest litigation matters and test cases across key areas of practice including Civil and Political Rights, Asylum Seeker Rights, Environment & Climate Change, Workplace Rights and Indigenous Rights & Equality. Responsibilities included conducting complex legal research, subjective review coding for discovery in Relativity, statutory interpretation, preparing memorandum and briefs to counsel and experts, initial enquiry and new matter assessment and screening, conducting client interviews with interpreters and recording witness statements and drafting and processing court documents in the High Court, Federal Circuit Court and Supreme Court.I have worked on a number of cases including:- A successful legal challenge against the Commonwealth Government and the Northern Land Council over plans for a radioactive waste dump on Indigenous land in the Northern Territory.- An action for the prevention of the transfer of over 100 Australian born asylum seeker babies and their families to Nauru that resulted in them being released from immigration detention while having their claims for protection processed in Australia.- Legal action against Melbourne City Council to enforce laws that ensure safe access and protection from harassment of patients and staff of the Fertility Control Clinic.- A class action on behalf of asylum seekers injured while detained at Christmas Islannd.

Melbourne Area, Australia

Providing high-level support to the Employment Law and Workplace Relations team (previous PwC Legal service line) working on employment-related issues in public and private industries including manufacturing, entertainment, and the financial sector. Responsibilities included drafting and reviewing contracts of employment, termination contracts, consultancy agreements, letters of advice and EBAs, recording witness statements, internal file maintenance, court filing, billing and diary management.

Melbourne Area, Australia

Providing high-level paralegal and administrative support to executives/partners and a team of solicitors working on legal and strategic advice on all areas of employment and industrial law to private sector clients, government agencies and statutory authorities. Responsibilities included drafting and reviewing contracts of employment, termination contracts, consultancy agreements and preparing letters of advice.

Graduate Diploma Of Legal Practice (Gdlp)

Admission to practice courses completed including Civil Litigation Practice, Commercial Law Practice, Property and Legal Trust Accounting.

Bachelor Of Arts/Bachelor Of Laws

Bachelor of Laws Priestley 11 and electives including Intellectual Property, Law and the Internet, Competition Law and Policy, Taxation.