Lara is an employment, IR and WHS lawyer with more than 15 years’ experience advising across a wide range of industries including manufacturing, construction, mining, social and community services, hospitality and retail. 

Lara has represented employers in unfair dismissal claims, general protections claims, discrimination and sexual harassment claims, applications for orders to stop bullying, sham contracting prosecutions, WHS prosecutions, prosecutions for underpayment of entitlements and workers’ compensation claims.

She advises employers on matters such as workplace investigations, enterprise agreement negotiations, outsourcing arrangements, restructures and redundancies, post-employment restraints, protection of intellectual property and confidential information, managing underperforming employees, managing ill or injured employees, compliance with WHS legislation and employment due diligence. 

Prior to joining Australian Industry Group, Lara worked in private practice in Queensland and the ACT and was most recently a partner of her former firm.