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Turks adds 2 partners in Melbourne
Mid-tier firm Turks has hired a special counsel and senior associate from rival firms and appointed them as partners for its Melbourne office.
Jerome Doraisamy
Rosalind Gilsenan and Natasha Sim (both pictured) have joined Turks’ partnership, bringing the firm’s total number of partners to 38.
The firm also has more than 250 staff across its offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Newcastle.
Gilsenan has joined the firm’s general insurance team from Carter Newell Lawyers, where she was a special counsel for two and a half years. She is, Turks said in a statement, an accomplished general insurance litigator, who has spent over 23 years specialising in property damage, liability, and personal injury litigation, as well as indemnity and other insurance disputes.
Sim has come across from Meerkin & Apel, where she was a senior associate for nearly a year, prior to which she was at Russell Kennedy for close to four years. She advises on all aspects of employment and industrial relations laws, including enterprise bargaining, enterprise agreement disputes, executive employment, and corporate governance issues, managing ill and injured workers, award classification, and post-employment restraints, Turks detailed.
Speaking about the hires, Turks chief executive Zoë Leonard said: “We are always on the lookout for excellent lawyers who share the firm’s values and commitment to clients, and so this is a great achievement for us in the continued growth of our Melbourne office.”
Sim said: “I’m very excited to be working with a firm that has such a strong reputation for producing excellent work, and which is committed to continuously bettering its client experience.”
“I’m looking forward to collaborating with the team and with others across the NSW and Queensland offices to grow our workplace relations practice!”
Gilsenan said: “Turks has seen considerable growth over the last few years, particularly in general insurance, and I am excited to be part of the firm’s future.”
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Jerome Doraisamy
Jerome Doraisamy is the editor of Lawyers Weekly. A former lawyer, he has worked at Momentum Media as a journalist on Lawyers Weekly since February 2018, and has served as editor since March 2022. He is also the host of all five shows under The Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network, and has overseen the brand's audio medium growth from 4,000 downloads per month to over 60,000 downloads per month, making The Lawyers Weekly Show the most popular industry-specific podcast in Australia. Jerome is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in NSW, and a board director of Minds Count.
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