Ms Marie Costa > Corrs Chambers Westgarth > Melbourne, Australia > Lawyer Profile
Corrs Chambers Westgarth Offices
Level 25
567 Collins 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.
https://www.corrs.com.au/people/marie-costa
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)With offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane, Corrs Chambers Westgarth has a strong presence across the country. The team’s strengths lie in settling contentious issues and providing advice to clients across a number of key industry sectors, including financial services, retail, government, infrastructure and energy. Practice head John Tuck is known by national businesses, corporate clients and federal governments for his expert handling of investigations, projects and employment strategies. Marie Costa assists with initial advisory work and preventative training, as well as investigatory work and prosecutions. The team has recently welcomed new hires Kirsty Faichen and Giacomo Giorgi from Herbert Smith Freehills.
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
- Competition and trade
- Data protection
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Infrastructure projects and construction
- Intellectual property
- IT and telecoms
- Labour and employment
- Natural resources (transactions and regulatory)
- Project finance
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: class actions
- Energy (transactions and regulatory)
- Environment and planning
- Fintech and financial services regulatory
- Labour and employment: workplace health and safety (WHS)
- Tax
- White-collar crime
- Insurance
- Media and entertainment
- Capital markets