National firm's partnership has grown to 169 with the hires of these three women
Mills Oakley has welcomed partners Tamara Heng in Perth, Jennie-Lee Schloffer in Brisbane, and Tina Tomaszewski in Adelaide. The lateral hires of these women has grown the national firm’s partnership to 169.
“Mills Oakley is very pleased to welcome Tamara, Jennie-Lee and Tina to the partnership,” said John Nerurker, Mills Oakley’s chief executive officer, in the firm’s media release.
Heng, coming from Lavan, has joined Mills Oakley’s property team. She has experience in a wide range of property and general commercial transactions, with a focus on the development of and investment in real estate and complex structured transactions.
With deep knowledge about all classes of real estate, she has worked on the acquisition and disposal of property assets, due diligence, subdivisions, development, development agreements, joint ventures, complex leasing, and strategic projects for property developers and government clients.
Schloffer – who previously worked at Allens and McCullough Robertson – has garnered more than 14 years of broad experience in the practice areas of commercial litigation, dispute resolution, and insolvency.
She also has extensive experience managing litigation across both federal jurisdictions and the state jurisdictions of Queensland, Victoria, and New South Wales. She is both adept at project managing large-scale litigation and eager to handle matters more personal to clients.
Tomaszewski has joined Mills Oakley’s government, civil litigation, and disputes team after over 25 years at South Australia’s Crown Solicitor’s Office. She continues to act for the State of South Australia and the Solicitor for the Northern Territory.
Her experience covers medical malpractice, defamation, general civil litigation, industrial and workers compensation litigation, third party asbestos recovery actions, Royal Commission inquiries, and coronial inquests with whole-of-government implications. She was recently junior counsel in a domestic, family, and sexual violence coronial inquest in the Northern Territory.
“All three are outstanding legal practitioners in their fields, and we look forward to the many benefits their leadership and expertise will bring to our firm,” Nerurker said in the firm’s media release.
Mills Oakley – which has been active for 160 years – has offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney.
