Ms Marie Costa > Corrs Chambers Westgarth > Melbourne, Australia > Lawyer Profile
Corrs Chambers Westgarth Offices
LEVEL 36, BOURKE PLACE
600 BOURKE STREET
MELBOURNE, VIC 3000
Australia
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Ms Marie Costa
Work Department
Workplace Relations
Position
Special Counsel
Career
Marie specialises in workplace health and safety and is a key member of Corrs’ Employment, Workplace Relations and Safety team.
With over a decade of experience practising in criminal and workplace health and safety law, Marie’s skills are unique to Corrs and are invaluable under the current workplace health and safety statutory regime, which is a criminal regime. Marie assists a range of clients with incident response, advice, investigations, prosecutions, coronial inquests and training.
Asia Pacific Legal 500 recently named Marie a Next Generation Lawyer in her field. Corrs’ Workplace Health and Safety practice was ranked tier 1.
Prior to joining Corrs in 2014, Marie was a Senior Associate at a prominent Victorian criminal law firm during which time she also obtained her Master of Laws from Monash University. Marie has also worked as a criminal lawyer at the Supreme Court of Victoria in its appellate jurisdiction.
Memberships
Safety Institute of Australia Member
- Law Institute of Victoria Member
Lawyer Rankings
Australia > Labour and employment: workplace health and safety (WHS)
(Rising stars)The WHS group at Corrs Chambers Westgarth draws on its strong national presence (maintaining offices in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne) to advise a host of universities, state governments, financial institutions and multinational corporates – most notably in the construction, education, engineering, and mining and resources sectors. Steered from Melbourne by workplace dispute and employment litigation specialist John Tuck, the practice assists with matters ranging from strategic risk management, crisis and safety incidents and discrimination, bullying and harassment to regulatory compliance and prosecution and investigation response. Beyond Tuck, key names to note include labour relations strategist Nicholas Ellery in Perth and special counsel Marie Costa in Melbourne.
Lawyer Rankings
- Rising stars - Australia > Labour and employment: workplace health and safety (WHS)
- Labour and employment: workplace health and safety (WHS) - Australia
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Data protection
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Infrastructure projects and construction
- Intellectual property
- IT and telecoms
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Competition and trade
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: class actions
- Energy (transactions and regulatory)
- Environment and planning
- Fintech and financial services regulatory
- Labour and employment
- Media and entertainment
- Natural resources (transactions and regulatory)
- Project finance
- Tax
- White-collar crime
- Insurance
- Labour and employment: workplace health and safety (WHS)
- Capital markets