Wotton Kearney is delighted to announce that a team led by Richard Leder OAM will be joining its Melbourne office. Richard Leder will bring a team of six from Corrs Chambers Westgarth including Georgie Austin (Partner), Jacquie Goodwin (Senior Associate), Blake Pappas (Senior Associate), Simone Tagliaferro (Senior Associate), Renata Romeo (Associate) and Karolyn Connelly (Practice […]

Wotton Kearney has again been recognised as a Tier 1 firm for insurance law in both Australia and New Zealand in the 2023 The Legal 500 Asia Pacific rankings. The Legal 500 says Wotton Kearney has a “renowned insurance group“ in Australia and “brings together the biggest collection of insurance specialists in New Zealand”. The […]

Wotton Kearney has announced 29 promotions effective 1 January 2023 in Australia and New Zealand, including new partner Nicole Gabryk in the firm’s rapidly growing cyber team. The latest promotions take W+K’s numbers to 67 partners and more than 350 dedicated insurance lawyers across eight locations. Nicole Gabryk (Cyber, Privacy + Data Security, Sydney) has […]

W+K is delighted to announce the five finalists of the inaugural Wotton Kearney Turning Point competition. The competition, which we launched in August, threw out a challenge to the insurance industry’s most creative and progressive thinkers to explore where the Property, Energy + Infrastructure market is going, including changes in industry and technology. The submissions […]

In our latest Q&A with our recently appointed partners, we get to know Sydney-based major loss specialist, Edward Burrell, a key member of W+K’s Property, Energy + Infrastructure team. Tell us about your journey to becoming a partner at W+K. After graduating from the University of Otago and getting admitted to the bar in New […]

In our latest Q&A with our recently appointed partners, we get to know Brisbane-based financial lines specialist, Ronnie Mok. Tell us about your journey to becoming a partner at W+K. In July 2008, I started as a graduate at a national plaintiff law firm, working in class actions and commercial litigation. After four years there, […]