Mr Simon Bailey

Employer:  Fulton Peak Pty Ltd

Current Position:  Managing Director

Professional Field:  Consulting & Strategy

Simon graduated ANU Law in 1986, have spent 35 years doing startup, turnaround & restructure work in Australia and 14 other countries. He worked in all industries other than real estate and continue to advise public and private sector clients.

 

Mr Andrew Browne

Employer:  Shell International B.V.

Current Position:  Senior Legal Counsel:  IP

Professional Field:  Legal

Andrew has worked as an IP lawyer for many years in a number of different industry sectors.  He also had business and business development roles.

 

Mr Brodie Buckland

Employer:  Self-Employed

Current Position:  Barrister, ACT Bar

Professional Field:  Law

Brodie is a Barrister and well-known vegabond withing the Burgmann community, who lives on campus.

 

Mr Gordon Bunyan

Employer:  Toyota Motor Corporation Australia

Current Position:  Director, Diabetes Australia Research Trust

Professional Field:  Law, Automotive Management, International Not For Profit

Corporate Lawyer & senior corporate manager; director of national and international medical not for profit organisations.

 

Mr Gregory Campbell

Employer:  Privalis Group

Current Position:  CEO

Professional Field:  Digital Legal & Cyber Security

Greg is the CEO of Privalis Group a data intelligence firm based in San Francisco that specialises in providing privacy compliance and data security solutions to the private sector and runs open-source intelligence gathering for UNOHCR.

 

Mr Ryan Crowley

Employer:  Dharmniti Law Office Co. Ltd

Current Position:  Foreign Services Manager

Professional Field:  Legal Consultant

Australian trained lawyer currently working in a local Thai law firm based in Bangkok. Supporting international clients with a variety of legal work ranging from litigation through to visas, work permits, will /contract drafting, co. reg. etc.

 

Mr Simon Dickson

Employer:  Federal Court of Australia

Current Position:  Associate to the Hon Justice Burley

Professional Field:  Law

B Arts/ B Laws (Hons I); Supreme Court Judges' Prize, Graduate lawyer: Herbert Smith Freehills with a specialisation in litigation and IP &  Associate to the Honourable Justice Burley in the Federal Court of Australia.

 

Prof David Hamer

Employer:  Sydney University Law School

Current Position:  Professor & Associate Dean (Postgrad Coursework)

Professional Field:  Evidence Law & Criminal Justice

David's primary research interest is in evidence law.  He takes an interdisciplinary approach, interrogating the law - and the proof process more broadly - using tools drawn from probability theory, narrative theory and psychology.

 

Mr Michael Haynes

Employer:  Basketball Australia

Current Position:  CEO

Professional Field:  Not for Profit & Community Organisation - Sport

Insurance lawyer for seven years (small and national law firms).  Professional sports coach for four years.  Senior Sports Manager for 13 years with particular interest in education and the positive impact that sport has on communities.

 

Mr Andrew Mainsbridge

Employer:  Nokia Solutions & Networks Australia Ltd

Current Position:  Commercial Manager APAC, IP/Optical Networks

Professional Field:  Telecommunications

Commercial manager with qualifications in law and information science, focusing on major-project telecommunications infrastructure contracts in Australia and Asia.  Prior experience running and advising on very large managed-service IT outsourcing agreements, up to and including contracts in the billion-dollar class.  Volunteer solicitor at Salvos Legal Humanitarian - social justice law.  Law students - Salvos Legal has volunteer internship opportunities from time to time.  Quality alternative to a traditional holiday clerkship, albeit unpaid. Can accommodate ANU students. Let me know if you want an intro.

 

Mr Anthony Massaro

Employer:  Russell Kennedy Lawyers

Current Position:  Principal

Professional Field:  Legal Practice

Greg is the CEO of Privalis Group a data intelligence firm based in San Francisco that specialises in providing privacy compliance and data security solutions to the private sector and runs open-source intelligence gathering for UNOHCR.

 

Ms Dominique Ogilvie

Employer:  ACCC

Current Position:  Senior Program Manager, AANZFTA CLIP

Professional Field:  Competition Law

Dominique is Senior Program Manager of the Competition Law Implementation Program, which is a multi-year, demand-driven capacity building program for the ASEAN region, funder under the AANZFTA Economic Cooperation Support Program.

 

Mr Athol Opas

Employer:  Self-Employed

Current Position:  Barrister

Professional Field:  Legal

Athol was a Burgmann College resident from 1993-1996, studying Arts/Law (ANU).  He has been a lawyer in Canberra for 18 years, including as ACT Law Society President and as a Director of the Law Council of Australia.  He is currently a barrister at Blackburn Chambers.

 

Ms Danae Paxinos

Employer:  Department of Agriculture & Water Resources

Current Position:  Deputy General Counsel

Professional Field:  Law

Experienced legal adviser to government with a strong track record in the provision of a wide range of legal services to Commonwealth agencies. Core areas of practice include administrative law, Commonwealth employment law, information access law, dispute.

 

Mr Alex Readford

Employer:  Australian Government, Solicitor

Current Position:  Senior Lawyer

Professional Field:  Legal Services

Alex is a commercial lawyer for the Australian Government Solicitor.  He currently advises on property, infrastructure & procurement matters for the Western Sydney Airport Project.  He holds degrees in science & law from ANU & economic development from LSE.

 

Mr George Tannin SC

Employer:  State Solicitor for Western Australia

Current Position:  State Counsel for Western Australia

Professional Field:  Law

The role of State Counsel for Western Australia involves the provision of high level legal advice and appearances both at trial and appellate levels in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the Court of Appeal, the Federal Court and the High Court of Australia on behalf of a wide range of officers and agencies of the State of Western Australia, including the Premier, the Cabinet, the Attorney General and Ministers as well as their respective departments.

 

Ms Nina Zec

Employer:  Borchard & Moore

Current Position:  Solicitor

Professional Field:  Law

Nina is a Criminal and Family Lawyer.