Amy is a political reporter with the Guardian and the author of the best selling 'On Reckoning'. She makes regular appearances on the ABC and the Project and speaks on politics and social justice issues.
Danielle is a highly sought-after litigator and co-founder of Elit Lawyers by McGirr & Snell.
She specialises in high-value litigation, including financial disputes, defamation for high-profile individuals, and insurance policyholder cases.
Danielle is frequently sought after and entrusted by barristers and lawyers to resolve complex, high-stakes disputes when they face conflicts of interest.
Named "Managing Partner of the Year" at the Australian Law Awards, Danielle’s firm, Elit Lawyers by McGirr & Snell, was also honoured as "Boutique Law Firm of the Year" in 2022.
Her leadership is driven by a strong commitment to justice, leveraging her litigation expertise to protect clients' rights in complex, high-stakes disputes.
Joining Clio in January 2023, Denise brings over 15 years of experience in legal technology, including leadership roles at LexisNexis, and was most recently General Manager of Practitioner Services at Sympli. She holds a bachelor’s degree in modern Languages from the University of Cambridge, an MBA from Western Sydney University, and is an alumnus of the University of Warwick Business School. Denise has a proven record of building and leading high-performance teams and a deep understanding of the unique needs and challenges faced by legal professionals.
Elizabeth spent the first 10 years of her career working across multiple sectors of the legal industry, initially as a law clerk, and then as a solicitor. She has worked in private practice and the community legal sector. Eight years ago, she brought all this experience with her to PracticeEvolve and has used this to help PracticeEvolve clients in their transition to the software. She started in the Support Team and progressed to a Professional Services Consultant role, before stepping into her current role as Implementation Manager, four years ago. Elizabeth is passionate about the legal tech space and enjoys helping law firms get the most out of their practice management software and improve their overall productivity.
Erin is an Australian Lawyer, legal tech nerd, and legal app designer who is a proud subcommittee member of WALTA and founding member of theWild. She also makes up a part of Gilbert + Tobin’s award-winning Legal Service Innovation team.
Erin brings knowledge and experience working with numerous digital platforms to design innovative solutions for in-house legal teams and top tier law firms. This is alongside her expertise in Artificial Intelligence tools (GenAI + ML), due diligence software, and numerous other leading legal tech platforms. As part of her work, she collaborates with all practice groups to identify pain points, procure, design, and implement solutions, and drive adoption.
Erin completed the Juris Doctor at Melbourne Law School in 2019, where she won the award for “Best Law App”, and has been working in legal innovation at Australia’s top corporate law firms since graduation.
In 2021, during Melbourne’s never-ending lockdown, she partnered with a friend to design and build a legal app called “Bumpd”, which experimented with how technology can provide access to justice. She has been nominated as a finalist in the category of “Legal Operations Professional of the Year” for the 2024 Women in Law Awards.
Kate Jenkins AO is a leader, lawyer, adviser and advocate who has led cultural reform and advanced diversity, inclusion and performance in Australian workplaces, sport, the arts, parliament and education.
Kate is Chair of the Australian Sports Commission, the federal agency responsible for supporting and investing in Australian sport, from grass roots to elite. She is also Chair of the Creative Workplaces Council, which is responsible for promoting fair, safe and respectful workplaces in the arts sector.
Kate recently completed her 7 year term as the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner. Highlights of Kate's term leading the landmark Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces Report (2020), with the Federal Government committing to implementing all 55 recommendations of the report in full. She also conducted Time for Respect: the fifth national sexual harassment survey and chaired the Respect@Work Council leading regulators, employers, worker
representatives and civil society to implement changes in sexual harassment laws and practices.
Kate has worked with a range of sporting codes to improve inclusion, including golf, cricket, Australian Rules Football, and netball, and conducted the Independent Review of Gymnastics in Australia in 2021 (Change the Routine). Kate led the development of the world-first Guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse people in sport. Kate was an Ambassador for the FIFA2023 Women's World Cup, and the T20 Cricket Women’s World Cup.
Kate also led the Commission's collaborative projects on cultural reform with the Australian Defence Force, Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force. Other significant projects include: Change the Course: national survey sexual harassment and sexual assault at Australian universities (2017), and Set the Standard: Independent Review of Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces (2021).
Prior to joining the Commission, Kate spent three years as the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner, 20 years as employment lawyer and lead equal opportunity partner with Herbert Smith Freehills and many years serving on the boards of Berry Street Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Play by the Rules and Carlton Football Club.
Kate was born and raised on an orchard in Victoria and is mother and stepmother to 5 young people.
Marlia is a Partner in major law firm Thomson Geer's Media practice, based in Sydney. She is an experienced media, entertainment and intellectual property lawyer with extensive top-tier law firm expertise and also worked in-house at News Corp as a senior litigation lawyer.
Marlia specialises in defamation, copyright and trade marks, consumer law, contempt of court, prepublication advice, suppression orders, freedom of information and court access applications, and privacy matters.
She has acted in a large number of high profile media and intellectual property disputes; advised on sponsorship, production and licensing deals; and given prepublication advice in relation to newspaper and online articles, television programs, podcasts, books and marketing/advertising materials.
Marlia recently led the team behind the successful defence of Network Ten in Australia's most high profile defamation case brought by Bruce Lehrmann.
Stephanie Pasharis is a tax lawyer and is the Victorian Director of Australian Women Lawyers (AWL). AWL is a justice and equity champion advancing women within the legal profession. In 2022, Stephanie served as the President of Victorian Women Lawyers, the peak representative body of women lawyers in Victoria. As President, Stephanie led initiates and events focusing on leadership in the legal professional, developing professional skills, mentoring and wellbeing.
Sue Chrysanthou is a leading defamation barrister whose practice also includes intentional torts and intellectual property matters.
