John Wilson is the only lawyer practising in the ACT region who is accredited as a specialist in industrial relations and employment law under the NSW Law Society's rigorous specialist accreditation scheme. He regularly acts in industrial relations and employment law litigation and has handled several major cases affecting the ACT as a whole. John's practice includes the preparation of collective agreements, Australian Workplace Agreements, common law employment contracts, and independent contractor agreements in virtually every major industry and including business that operate throughout Australia. He is an excellent legal craftsman and a strategic thinker in this area. He is an experienced adviser in the area of occupational health and safety (including workplace deaths), and has acted for a number of well-known businesses in this area. John has considerable experience in advising industrial organisations. John acts for a number of leading local and international firms, as well as government agencies. Such is John's recognition as an "expert's expert", that many of his clients come from referrals from lawyers in other firms. He is also regularly asked to advise on and correct the work of other lawyers and self-styled "consultants" in this area.
John is a former course convenor and lecturer of "Employment, Discrimination and Law" at the University of Canberra School of Law. He is the chair of the ACT Law Society's industrial relations committee and a director of the ACT & Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Prior to joining Williams Love & Nicol as a partner upon its inception in 2004, John was proprietor and the principal lawyer of the Davidson Wilson Group and, before that, a Senior Associate at Barker Gosling, Canberra.
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