The promotions bolster the firm’s workplace and employment offering
Hamilton Locke has elevated Melissa Doran and Timothy Zahara to partners in its latest promotions cycle.
Doran and Zahara’s promotions strengthen the top end of the firm’s workplace and employment team.
Doran joined Hamilton Locke just last year as a special counsel, coming in with a Clyde & Co team led by Michael Tooma. She focuses on workplace health and safety (WHS) law, with more than 13 years of experience handling advisory and litigious issues.
She has worked with businesses on the establishment of safe work systems, management of WHS incident responses, and defence against WHS prosecutions for individuals and companies.
Zahara recorded a stint as a senior lawyer at the Fair Work Ombudsman before returning to Hamilton Locke as a special counsel in 2022. He has provided guidance to the boards of ASX 100 companies as well as family businesses.
He has worked on whistleblowing claims, senior executive employment disputes, and post-employment restraints. He has also tackled transfer of employment obligations in public and private corporate transactions.
In addition to the new partners, the firm also promoted several lawyers to special counsel and senior associates:
Special counsel
- Kassandra Adams (restructuring and insolvency, Sydney)
- Chafeka Foti (real estate, Sydney)
- Clara Hagan (litigation, Perth)
- Katherine McMenamin (restructuring and insolvency, Sydney)
- Penelope Nicholls (Hamilton Locke Private, Brisbane)
- Calyb Soekoe (finance, Sydney)
Senior associates
- Tariq Alardah (energy, resources, construction and infrastructure, Sydney)
- Miriam Asar (workplace and employment, Sydney)
- Simon Barcham (corporate and commercial, Perth)
- Georgina Buckley (litigation, Brisbane)
- Georgie Chard (workplace and employment, Sydney)
- Tayla Jasson (corporate and commercial, Perth)
- Bobby Nader (real estate, Sydney)
- Adam Rose (IP and technology, Brisbane)
- William Ryan (energy, resources, construction and infrastructure, Sydney)
- Samantha Ryu (workplace and employment, Sydney)
