Gadens Lawyers hires new work health and safety law expert

Gadens Lawyers has welcomed Katherine Morris, a work health and safety law specialist, to complete its full service offering in workplace-related law.

Morris’s depth of experience in safety law combined with exposure across a wide range of high safety risk industries, particularly in the construction, property, transport and energy and resources industries, has strong synergies with Gadens’ full service offering to its clients. She specialises in advising and representing clients in: reducing exposure to corporate and personal liability through strategic and compliance oriented advice, and providing immediate legal response to serious incidents; and the defence of prosecutions.

Mark Sant, Employment and Safety Business Unit Leader and senior Partner, says, “Katherine was of particular interest to us because of her expertise in construction and property. This is a segment where Gadens has a dominant legal practice and we see much opportunity for safety work amongst our existing client base. Katherine also has a strong client following with key players in this segment.”

In joining Gadens as Partner, Katherine carefully considered her options and chose a firm with particular strengths in the construction, property and workplace relations practice areas. Gadens’ renowned culture that fosters the development of its people, and its agility, speed, commitment and openness in servicing clients, including through forward thinking technological solutions, were also strong factors.