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Global firm appoints special counsel
K&L Gates has bolstered its labour, employment and workplace safety team with the appointment of a new special counsel.
Emma Musgrave
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Elizabeth Ferrier (pictured) has joined the firm’s Sydney office from Asciano Limited, where she was general manager of industrial relations across all of the Asciano businesses.
Prior to this she was the lead HR business partner of maintenance operations for Qantas Airways.
Ms Ferrier advises across the full range of employment matters, including employment contracts and policies, business sales and outsourcing, employee discipline and termination, and employment-related litigation, with a particular focus on industrial relations.
Ms Ferrier’s extensive resume includes experience across private legal practice and in-house, in both senior HR and industrial relations roles.
She has worked for clients across a number of industries, including aviation, technology, transport and logistics, pharmaceuticals and financial services.
Some examples of Ms Ferrier’s work include managing complex industrial relations strategies, negotiations and litigation for large Australian logistics companies, advising on and acting for a large telecommunications company, and successfully defending a complex discrimination claim against a major financial institution in the Federal Court of Australia.
Emma Musgrave
Emma Musgrave (née Ryan) is the managing editor, professional services at Momentum Media.
Emma has worked for Momentum Media since 2015, including five years spent as the editor of the company's legal brand - Lawyers Weekly. Throughout her time at Momentum, she has been responsible for breaking some of the biggest stories in corporate Australia. In addition, she has produced exclusive multimedia and event content related to the company's respective brands and audiences.
Prior to joining Momentum Media, Emma worked in breakfast radio, delivering news to the Central West region of NSW, before taking on a radio journalist role at Southern Cross Austereo, based in Townsville, North Queensland.
She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) degree from Charles Sturt University.
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