Adam is passionate about building relationships with the firm's clients and assisting them through the complex field of Australian employment law, particularly in regard to litigation. He provides informed, commercially minded advice tailored to each client's specific needs.
Experience
Adam's practice covers the full range of employment, industrial, safety and discrimination fields. He has a particular focus and passion for work health and safety law in both an advisory and litigation context.
Adam has acted in a range of matters across both Federal and State jurisdictions. He has advised and appeared for both private and public sector clients in employment and safety matters ranging from high-profile safety incidents involving the death of workers, workplace investigations, unfair dismissals, general protections and underpayment claims.
Adam has been recognised in Doyle's Guide as a Rising Star in Employment Law and WHS in Australia, and was named "One to Watch" for Litigation in The Best Lawyers in Australia.
Career highlights
Adam's career highlights include:
- advising South Western Sydney Local Health District in response to an investigation and subsequent prosecution by SafeWork NSW, stemming from the tragic death of one newborn and serious injury to another as a result of faulty respiratory gas installation by a contractor. This involved ultimately negotiating an enforceable undertaking with SafeWork to address gaps in procedures and provide broader community benefits, leading to withdrawal of the prosecution against SWSLHD
- advising and assisting NSW Ambulance to manage a SafeWork investigation and prosecution arising from the suicide of a paramedic and alleged failures of controls over access to drugs. This work successfully demonstrated to SafeWork why the most serious originally proposed charge should be dropped, and others downgraded
- advising and appearing for the NSW Resources Regulator in its successful prosecution of mining companies and associated entities for breaches of work health and safety legislation
- advising a large public sector agency with respect to its management of WHS responsibilities in a complex multi-site/multi-duty holder scenario
- advising and successfully appearing as advocate for clients across a variety of complex unfair dismissal and anti-bullying claims, as well as urgent applications to stop industrial action
- advising and appearing for a multinational group of companies in complex Federal Court proceedings brought by a former director.