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.