James Kearney
James is a commercial litigator with experience in complex arbitration matters and Court litigation across the Australian jurisdictions.
Gemma Borrello
Gemma has extensive experience in large and complex commercial disputes. Acting as the instructing solicitor in Federal Court and State Supreme Court proceedings, Gemma has a broad practice area in general commercial litigation, building and construction disputes and class actions.
Talia Black
Talia is a commercial litigation lawyer whose practice spans a wide variety of litigation and dispute matters including building disputes, complex commercial disputes, misleading and deceptive conduct claims, regulatory proceedings, property disputes, Corporation Act disputes and energy sector disputes.
Nick Melios
Nick is highly experienced in property damage litigation, motor vehicle recoveries, indemnity disputes, and complex fraud investigations. He regularly acts for leading Australian insurers, brokers, fleet managers, and claims managers.
Alistair Bridges
Alistair Bridges specialises in international trade, trade remedies, sanctions/export controls, and administrative law and public law, with a strong federal court litigation and cross-border regulatory focus.
John Chouris
John is a highly regarded litigation lawyer with extensive experience across South Australia and Queensland. He specialises in insurance law and has expertise in dust diseases litigation, personal injury claims and property damage disputes.
Caroline Knight
Caroline is an accomplished litigation lawyer with extensive experience across South Australia and Queensland, specialising in insurance litigation with a focus on dust diseases and high-value, complex, personal injury claims.
Steven Smith
Steven has considerable experience dealing with all aspects of family law having worked in both busy regional practices and boutique metropolitan firms.
Cindy Ting
Cindy is a Special Counsel in our Adelaide Insurance team with over 25 years’ experience in insurance litigation. Her current focus is on medical negligence defence cases and general insurance claims, building on a strong foundation in statutory compensation schemes (CTP and workers compensation).
Bronwyn Ackland
Bronwyn has worked for close to 25 years in Insurance and Health Litigation specialising in complex public liability and personal injury, medical negligence, products liability, dust diseases, property liability and property damage.
Kylie Seifert
Kylie’s main areas of practice are retail, office, industrial, telecommunication and commercial leasing (acting for both landlords and tenants), acquisition and disposal of residential and commercial properties, major project work and due diligence investigations.
Myles Mayo
Myles is Special Counsel in our SA/NT insurance practice. He focuses on understanding the needs of his clients and delivering the best results as efficiently as possible.
Sarah Pick
Sarah is a specialist energy lawyer with a specific focus on electricity and renewables and has advised many major public and private entities in the energy industry on a range of complex regulatory and transactional matters.
Lecia Wood
Lecia has over 23 years of commercial litigation experience across a number of disciplines, most notably in disputes involving complex discretionary trusts, contested estates, native title and indigenous land rights, intellectual property, building and construction, insolvency and fraud.
Grant Mitchell
Grant leads our SA/NT insurance practice. He has over 30 years’ experience, principally in the areas of professional indemnity and complex public and product liability claims.
Tina Tomaszewski
Tina has recently joined Mills Oakley in the Government, Civil Litigation and Disputes team after working for over 25 years at South Australia’s Crown Solicitor’s Office. Tina continues to act for and represent the State of South Australia as well as the Solicitor for the Northern Territory.
Brett Hearne
Brett has extensive experience in medical negligence and personal injury matters and advises his clients, including Government Departments on all aspects relevant to strategically managing these matters.
Stephen Hill
Stephen has established a reputation as a ‘go to’ lawyer for property matters in South Australia. He has significant experience in major project work, property development and market-leading acquisitions and divestments across a range of asset classes. Stephen acts for a number of Australia’s largest institutional landlords, ASX-listed companies and private property investors and developers.
Sophie Cleveland
Sophie is a leading Disputes resolution practitioner who advises both private and government clients with a particular focus on indigenous issues including disputes arising under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, the Native Title Act, ESG related disputes. Sophie’s clients choose her for her technical expertise and pragmatic litigation approach.
Phoebe Pitt
Phoebe specialises in complex and significant commercial litigation and advises with respect to all forms of insolvency appointments, with a particular interest on investigations and litigious disputes.
Patrick Walsh
Patrick has extensive experience in assisting businesses and not for profit organisations navigate complex employment matters and his expertise in workers compensation, work health and safety, and employment law means that he can provide comprehensive and strategic workplace relations advice.
Lachlan Drew
Lachlan provides expert advice on property, procurement, infrastructure, development, and commercial matters. He has a broad background advising on complex contracting, government procurement, land tenure, and M&A.
Kate Bishop
Kate originally commenced practice in commercial law before pursuing her passion for family law where she has practiced for the majority of her career. Her commercial background has provided her with the ability to advise on all forms of property settlements, with a particular interest in complex or significant asset pools, spousal maintenance, and child support obligations.
Jeremy Rees
Jeremy advises local and interstate clients on corporate and commercial matters including event management, private mergers and acquisitions, structuring and the establishment and operation of trusts, negotiation and preparation of shareholder and unit holder agreements, drafting and advising changes to company constitutions and the plethora of contracts arising in general commercial practice.
Jeremy Culshaw
Jeremy has close to 40 years of experience practicing in Family law and became an Accredited Family Law Specialist in 1994. He provides legal advice on all aspects of Family Law including divorce, complex property settlements, parenting arrangements, international child relocation, Hague Convention matters, domestic partnerships (including de facto and same-sex relationships) and binding financial agreements.