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I have been a commercial litigation lawyer for 30 years and a mediator for 20 years. I currently practice at the Victorian Bar exclusively as a mediator.

I have been named as a leading mediator in Victoria in Doyle's Guide each year the list has been published and am accredited by the Victorian Bar as an advanced mediator. I have undertaken advanced mediation training with Harvard Negotiation Institute's Program on Negotiation and also with Bond University's Dispute Resolution Centre.

My professional experience includes earlier roles as:

• a sessional member of VCAT (2016-2020)
• a Federal Court registrar (2001-2007)
• an in-house lawyer with ANZ Banking Group Limited (1998-2001)
• a barrister (1994-1998 and 2007-present)
• a solicitor in private practice (1990-1994).

In my roles with the Federal Court of Australia, I undertook mediations in all major areas of the Court's jurisdiction (commercial and trade practices disputes, insolvency, workplace, native title and human rights cases), trained and mentored new mediators and co-developed and delivered mediation skills training for the judiciary and legal profession in the South Pacific. I also exercised judicial functions in bankruptcy and corporations law cases.

At the ANZ Banking Group Limited I was a senior member of the Bank's dispute resolution group, which had responsibility for all of the Bank's non-lending related litigation as well as high-profile lending disputes.

I mediate disputes in areas including:

• Administrative law
• Bankruptcy & corporate insolvency
• Banking, finance & guarantees
• Corporations law
• Consumer law
• Directors' duties
• Equity and trusts
• Human rights and historic torts
• Intellectual property
• Legal costs
• Partnership
• PPSA cases
• Professional negligence
• Property law
• Sale of land
• Superannuation
• Trade Practices
• Workplace & employment.